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Author Topic: Woman swallows cockroach than fork! Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 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."  |  IP: Logged Don Sneed Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Texas City, TX, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 07-12-2003 04:24 PM                        DAMN, What luck 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 Can't you imagine a cockroach crawling down your throat is a enough, than in panic swallows the metal fork that's a double 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"  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged William Leland III Master Film Handler Posts: 336 From: Charleston, SC, Registered: Aug 2002 posted 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  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-14-2003 01:45 AM                        hell, i think i swallowed a bug biking home tonight.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-14-2003 05:07 AM                        quote: humans swallow about 8-10 spiders a year What? WHAT? WHAT?  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-14-2003 10:41 AM                     Bugs...mmmmmm...protein.  |  IP: Logged William Leland III Master Film Handler Posts: 336 From: Charleston, SC, Registered: Aug 2002 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 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  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Larry Davis Film Handler Posts: 66 From: New York Registered: Sep 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 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 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. Then she made up some crazy bug story to tell the doctor. Danny  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged

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