Woman laughs, accidentally swallows knife

Los Angeles Times ^ | August 3, 2012 | Rosie Mestel

[ConservativeStatement]

"Unexpected Swallowing of a Knife" -- that's a grabbier title than most ones you see in medical journals.

The short item, a clinical image in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, explains that a 30-year-old woman with a history of bulimia had been bragging to friends that she no longer had a gag reflex. She put the knife into her mouth and then laughed -- at which point she swallowed the knife.

[ConservativeStatement]

Future competition for Joey Chestnut.

[Ken522]

Now that's gotta hurt ....

[C210N]

Its a good thing I didn’t have a knife halfway down my throat when I read the top of this thread! With a hearty LOL...

[Flatus I. Maximus]

Her husband later disclosed that 4 years earlier she had swallowed a knife that required surgical removal with exploratory laparotomy.

That should her, "Her husband, the lucky s.o.b.,..."

[TribalPrincess2U]

Learned a new trick. Can now join a circus.

[Clay Moore]

ping!

[HangnJudge]

Looks like a butter knife,
swallowed blunt end first
Still gonna need someone going after it,
ain't coming back up same way it went down

Apparently she did something like this 4 years ago
And she's bulimic
Needed surgery to extract

The Husband needs to separate for prayer and fasting,
for a LONG Time
SHE'S Too high maintenance

[Slings and Arrows]

Missed the ping - somebody hid my silverware.

[Darksheare]

Submitted for approval: Further proof of human devolution.

[no-to-illegals]

Thanks for the ping Darksheare. Makes sense. I vote in the affirmative though please understand my vote means nothing.

[Monkey Face]

Got my approval!

[Tax-chick]

Provisionally yes, unless some top-quality Animal Kingdom Weirdness is posted today.

[Darksheare]

May we use this for the August Undead Thread?
[There are so few worthy candidate threads, this one stands out due to humor potential.]

[Tax-chick]

What do you mean?

[Darksheare]

Well, yes.
But I haven’t personally seen any yet.
[If you see some, ping me to it.]

[freedomlover]

I hate it when that happens.

[Tax-chick]

I haven’t seen any, either, but anything can happen, and it often does.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I might question her choice of diet, but the thread works : )

[fanfan]

Fine with me.

[Cyber Liberty]

Aye.