[Stoat]

 

Hospital X-rays showing open safety pins, forks, batteries and in one instance, a magnetic toy that reconnected in a child's stomach, often amaze doctors over what children are able to swallow, according to a Local 6 News report. This X-ray shows a car key swallowed by a child.

 

Local 6 News reported that emergency room physicians often see it all when it comes to unusual items in stomachs. A fork is found in this X-ray.

 

More X-rays of forks found in children.

 

The most commonly swallowed items include barrettes, rocks and buttons, Local 6 News reported.

 

Doctors find a barrette in a child's stomach.

 

A line of coins show up in a child's stomach in this X-ray.

 

"We see coin, after coin, after coin, after coin, after coin, after coin," Dr. Frank McGeorge said. "They're just constantly found in kids' abdomens."

 

Another coin found in a child's stomach.

 

Coins stuck in the throats of children.

 

This X-ray shows a boy who swallowed magnetic pieces of a block one at a time. When they hit his stomach, they reconnected, according to the report.

 

Another X-ray of magnetic pieces in a boy's stomach.

 

The report also showed an X-ray of a row of button batteries that could be deadly to a child.

 

A battery found in the stomach of a child.

 

Some of the most dangerous items children swallow include safety pins.

 

Another safety pin lodged in a child's throat.

[Loud Mime]

When I was a kid I swallowed matches and once a small whistle. The whistle passed without incident....except some pain.

[Hank Rearden]

Every day, people swallow politicians' crap.

I bet there's a delayed effect; it can't possibly be harmless.

[Gamecock]

[TaxRelief]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/18/coin.eater.ap/

Check this guy out... (12 lbs of coins and needles)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]