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Woman swallows fork trying to remove roach from throat(+ x-ray photo)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 7/11/03 | (AP/ Effi Sharir)

Posted on 07/11/2003 2:15:05 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat

An X-ray showing a fork lodged sideways in the stomach of a 32-year-old woman who accidently swallowed it while using it to scoop a cockroach out of her throat, in the northern Israeli town of Tiberias on July 10.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chocolateants; couldusesomesalt; donttrythisathome; dungbeetles; fork; hungry; ironinthediet; joesapartment; nextiwilleatahorse; nexttimeeatafly; protein; roach; swordswallower
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1 posted on 07/11/2003 2:15:06 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: mhking
Hold Mu Silverware Alert
2 posted on 07/11/2003 2:15:43 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
What tha....
3 posted on 07/11/2003 2:16:23 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Always use a spoon for removing roaches.
4 posted on 07/11/2003 2:16:49 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If I can support FR with two kids in college, you can too. Freedom aint free but you can charge it.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
*crunch* *crunch* *crunch* Mmmmm. Roaches.
5 posted on 07/11/2003 2:17:38 PM PDT by Liberal Classic (Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
What was Arafat doing in her esophogus? Nevermind, I don't want to know.
6 posted on 07/11/2003 2:18:00 PM PDT by Huck
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To: Flurry
Well, they did say Q-tips were dangerous...
7 posted on 07/11/2003 2:18:08 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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8 posted on 07/11/2003 2:18:16 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
I don't know which is worse....the reason or the result!
9 posted on 07/11/2003 2:19:22 PM PDT by GilesB
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Calling Uri Geller.
10 posted on 07/11/2003 2:19:30 PM PDT by Neanderthal (Kick their @$$ and take their gas.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
That's gotta hurt.
11 posted on 07/11/2003 2:19:45 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: Neanderthal
LOL
12 posted on 07/11/2003 2:20:00 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Lucky they got to her in time. I heard she was trying to figure out how to eat one of those big magnets they use down at the auto wrecking yard....
13 posted on 07/11/2003 2:20:26 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Diddle E. Squat
When I was young I had to swallow a roach when a cop pulled up beside me.

BTW is Sylva Ware a Jewish name?

14 posted on 07/11/2003 2:20:50 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Flurry
Soon we'll see a warning lable:

WARNING: FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ORALLY EXPEL INVERTEBRATES WITH THIS IMPLEMENT. SERIOUS INJURY MAY OCCUR.


15 posted on 07/11/2003 2:21:29 PM PDT by Liberal Classic (Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
FR ROCKS!
16 posted on 07/11/2003 2:21:48 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Diddle E. Squat
"It's better to have
a cockroach deep in your throat
than no roach at all."
17 posted on 07/11/2003 2:23:17 PM PDT by theFIRMbss ([coughs])
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To: Diddle E. Squat
I guess it's like Yogi Berra said, "When you come to a fork in the road, eat it."
18 posted on 07/11/2003 2:23:24 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Diddle E. Squat
fork
19 posted on 07/11/2003 2:23:41 PM PDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: Diddle E. Squat
No one has actually asked this, but have danced around it.

How did the roach get in her throat?
20 posted on 07/11/2003 2:23:42 PM PDT by MrB
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