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To: miliantnutcase
"I suppose the stomach acids would eventually dissolve copper and the metal would work it’s way through the blood stream"

That's exactly what happened. I read it in an old Forensic Pathology journal. Back when pennies were mostly copper. The patient had swallowed pounds of pennies, which became fused into this huge metallic blob in his stomach.

52 posted on 11/22/2007 9:09:03 PM PST by boop (Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
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To: boop

I guess the turquoise vomit wasn’t enough of a tipoff, huh.


54 posted on 11/22/2007 10:19:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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