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Posted by Nate Lehrke (Member # 1460) on 07-12-2003, 03:29 AM:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/11/fork.swallow.ap/index.html

JERUSALEM (AP) -- It's the bizarre, nightmarish stuff of a child's nursery rhyme: An Israeli woman swallowed a cockroach and right after it, down went a fork she used to try to fish the critter out of her throat.
A winged cockroach jumped into the woman's mouth as she was cleaning her home in a village in northern Israel this week. And as the story goes, the 32-year-old woman tried to scoop the bug out with a fork but swallowed it as well.
"It's a bit of a strange story," said Dr. Nikola Adid, who operated on the woman on Tuesday to remove the fork from her stomach -- the bug was already digested. "This is the first time I've ever encountered anything like this. None of my medical colleagues in this country have heard of anything similar either."
An X-ray showed the fork, lodged sideways in her stomach.
Adid, a surgeon at the Poria Hospital in Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, removed the fork with laparoscopic surgery, a minimally invasive procedure performed through a tiny incision a patient's abdomen.
The woman is recovering well, Adid said -- better off than the old woman of the children's rhyme:
"There was an old woman who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she'll die."

Posted by Don Sneed (Member # 955) on 07-12-2003, 04:24 PM:

DAMN, What luck [Eek!]

When I was about 12 I had a small moth fly into my ear Whooooaaaa Weeeeee that drove me crazy, this thing was going down the ear, fluttering its wings... Louder Than THX !!! after several minutes my mom put warm oil in my ear to kill the moth.....I can relate to this woman, bad enough to have bug crawl down your throat & in panic try to kill it & by accident swallows the fork [Eek!]

Can't you imagine a cockroach crawling down your throat is a [sex]

enough, than in panic swallows the metal fork that's a double [sex]

Poor Lady I feel for her.. If something like this would not have happen to me I would thought this was weired & almost funny....but I can relate ....."Good Luck Lady"

Posted by Michael Gonzalez (Member # 593) on 07-12-2003, 06:53 PM:

Sorry I have never eaten a bug (as far as I know as I do eat out from time to time). Thought on 2 seperate occasions I have had a bee fly into my helmet when I was riding my motorcycle.

Posted by William Leland III (Member # 1400) on 07-13-2003, 04:00 PM:

Micheal I'm not sure if I should tell you this, but humans swallow about 8-10 spiders a year.

it's true, it's true

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 07-14-2003, 12:32 AM:

Well, bite into an apple that has a worm, and discover that half of the worm was in the hunk you just swallowed. [Big Grin]

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 07-14-2003, 01:45 AM:

hell, i think i swallowed a bug biking home tonight.

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 07-14-2003, 05:07 AM:

quote:
humans swallow about 8-10 spiders a year

What? WHAT? WHAT? [puke]

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 07-14-2003, 10:41 AM:

Bugs...mmmmmm...protein.

[puke]

Posted by William Leland III (Member # 1400) on 07-14-2003, 03:04 PM:

Someone told me that a few years ago. Not big spiders, small spiders. Think off all the little bugs we never see or the organism that live on our skin.

They say 50% (not sure of the percentage) of dust in our house is from our dead skin, that we shed.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-14-2003, 03:45 PM:

Actually most of the dust is from pet's dead skin cells, and the rest from people. I do not allow people to shed dead skin cells at my place, so there is zero dust.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-14-2003, 06:18 PM:

This "lady" has got to win the prize for the most creative way to steal a fork from a restaurant.

I wonder if they charged her for it or she returned it?

>>> Phil

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 07-14-2003, 07:36 PM:

I can't even swallow half the tablets they have on the market these days. I'm impressed. um.... i think.

Posted by Larry Davis (Member # 609) on 07-14-2003, 09:22 PM:

The FDA allows a certain amount of insect parts in food (cocoa, grains, etc). So, many of us eat spiders, grasshoppers and more, every day.

Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 07-15-2003, 03:46 AM:

This is ridiculous. If you swallowed a bug, you cannot "dig" it out with a fork !! Think of the tissue damage that would cause, not to mention triggering the gag reflex. She should have [puke]

long before a fork could go all the way down.

Then again, maybe this woman was just "practicing" with any object she could fit her lips around and got carried away. [sex]

Then she made up some crazy bug story to tell the doctor.

Danny

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 07-15-2003, 04:23 AM:

quote:
I can't even swallow half the tablets they have on the market these days.

Did you try them all? Then you have a serious drug problem.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-15-2003, 05:41 AM:

"Then again, maybe this woman was just "practicing" with any object she could fit her lips around and got carried away."

Danny: Stop it! You're getting me all hot & bothered! Hubba Hubba! [evil]

>>> Phil