From the \”people do the strangest things\” department…
Hundreds Of Coins Found In Man\’s Belly
French doctors were taken aback when they discovered the reason for a patient\’s sore, swollen belly: He had swallowed around 350 coins – $650 worth – along with assorted necklaces and needles.
The 62-year-old man came to the emergency room of Cholet General Hospital in western France in 2002. He had a history of major psychiatric illness, was suffering from stomach pain, and could not eat or move his bowels.
His family warned doctors that he sometimes swallowed coins, and a few had been removed from his stomach in past hospital visits.
Still, doctors were awed when they took an X-ray. They discovered an enormous opaque mass in his stomach that turned out to weigh 12 pounds – as much as some bowling balls. It was so heavy it had forced his stomach down between his hips.
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I wonder if they used the coins to buy sodas from the vending machine at the hospital?