Man Dies After Tapeworm Inside Him Gets Cancer

Live Science ^ | 11/4/2015 | Live Science

[Moonman62]

I thought I was the first to use that technique. I also mix my peas with mashed potatoes so I can eat them with any utensil. Or is it honey?

I eat my peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life
It makes my peas taste funny
but it keeps them on my knife

[mkjessup]

I had a dog that ate about a 100 feet of kite string that I didn’t know about, all I saw was a few inches hanging out her rear. I covered my hand with a towel and grabbed it, then she took off running.

OMG, that's funny!

The only question remaining is, did your dog get airborne?

[rey]

He also had AIDS or HIV and wasn’t taking his meds.

Imagine if he had been eating red meat too.

[Moonman62]

No, she was a bit overweight, but I never saw her run so fast. I did sympathize, though (after I quit laughing). She was OK, no wound at all.

[mkjessup]

Well that’s good to hear. I admit to visualizing what sort of reaction would have been observed if instead of a dog, you had a cat that had consumed that amount of kite string, I suspect the resulting feline frenzy would have been incredible YouTube material.

[Grams A]

GOOD GRIEF!

They should be thankful they didn’t have Obamacare back then. It’s amazing how many illnesses the old doc was able to take care of using nothing but the contents of his old black bag, home remedies and a lot of smarts - no expensive drugs, lab tests, X-rays or MRI’s.

We always had a lot of pork since we raised hogs but my mom cooked it until it was done and then cooked it some more.

[smoothsailing]

How high did she get before you ran out off string?

[alexander_busek]

[...] and then waved a saucer of milk in front of the girl's mouth, the tapeworm (by then ravenous for food) literally came leaping up from the stomach, through the throat and out of the child's mouth, wild lashing [...]

You do realize that that couldn't be true, don't you?

Regards,

Hint: A tapeworm wouldn't be able to sense the presence of a bowl of milk outside the girl's body.

[dp0622]

lol.

I DEMAND a 40 million dollar study be done on why Tapeworms have such bad life habits. Must be Conservative White Men.

[dalereed]

about like when we filled a squirt gun with gas, lifted the cats tail , gave it a squirt and waited to see how far the cat ran before he ran out of gas!

[mkjessup]

Hint: A tapeworm wouldn't be able to sense the presence of a bowl of milk outside the girl's body.

If the tapeworm was writhing in hunger spasms, I contend that a saucer of milk waved just at the entrance of the gastro-intestinal tract (i.e. the mouth) most certainly could be detected.

Of course we could always try to find you some Tapeworm Pills as mentioned in GrandJediMasterYoda's post #6 and test the theory, what do you say? lol

[Salamander]

I remember it well...

[high info voter]

What a sick way to go!

[Talisker]

I had a dog that ate about a 100 feet of kite string that I didn’t know about, all I saw was a few inches hanging out her rear. I covered my hand with a towel and grabbed it, then she took off running.

That...

...is hysterical.

[Mark17]

They actually use to sell those things to lose weight.

It seems to me, that I saw one of those episodes on that TV program, a thousand ways to die.

[fr_freak]

That's nothing. I knew a guy, Phil, who went to the doctor's office and the doctor told him he had a large tapeworm. Phil thought he would just get a pill or something to cure it, but the doctor instead gave him some strange instructions. The doctor told him that the tapeworm was too large for the pill to be effective, so he had to use another method. He told Phil that, every day at 3:00pm for a week, Phil would have to put an oreo cookie up his rear end, and then, on the eighth day, return to the doctor's office at 2:45pm. Well, of course Phil was freaking out but the doctor told him it was the only way.

So Phil did what he was told for a week, putting the oreo cookies up you-know-where (he said it was fairly uncomfortable, if you're curious), and went back to the doctor's office at 2:45pm, just like he was told, even though he didn't have the slightest idea what for. The doctor had Phil drop his trousers and lean over the exam table. Phil said that, as he was standing there with his butt in the wind, he looked behind him and saw the doctor pick up an old aluminum baseball bat. Phil almost flipped out, and started to ask what the heck was going on, but the doctor just shushed him.

Phil stood there, leaning forward over the exam table with his butt out for the world to see, not knowing if the doctor had gone crazy or not and planned to bash his head in with the bat. Ten minutes goes by, then another ten, with nobody moving. Then suddenly, Phil felt something weird in his gut, and, then, good God, a giant tapeworm head popped out of his keyster, looked around, and squealed, "Hey, where's my f**king cookie????"

And that's when the doctor bashed the thing's brains out with the baseball bat.

[goat granny]

hope the dog survived it but that is funny as he11

[gnarledmaw]

OK, let us pretend that the saucer of milk worked. You do realize that a tapeworm cant be pulled out by hand? They are designed to break into segments.

[T-Bone Texan]

Dogs can be treated for tapeworm by adding diatomaceous earth to their food, at no more than 5% by volume of their total food intake.

[I-ambush]

I remember watching that episode as a kid. After lying in bed, tossing and turning for hours convinced an itch in my ear was a tapeworm, I woke up my parents. I was banned from watching Night Gallery from then on (I still watched it on the sly)