Woman Swallows Fork Trying To Retrieve Cockroach

Ananova ^ | 7-11-2003

[blam]

Woman swallows fork trying to retrieve cockroach

An Israeli woman has swallowed a fork while trying to retrieve a cockroach from her throat.

The insect reportedly jumped into her mouth as she was cleaning her home in a village in northern Israel.

The 32-year-old tried to scoop the cockroach out with a fork, but ended up swallowing that as well.

Dr Nikola Adid, of the Poria Hospital in Tiberias, said: "It's a bit of a strange story. This is the first time I've ever encountered anything like this. None of my medical colleagues have heard of anything similar either."

He operated on the woman to remove the fork from her stomach, but said the bug had already been digested.

An X-ray showed the fork, lodged sideways in her stomach. Adid says the woman is recovering well.

© Associated Press

Story filed: 11:12 Friday 11th July 2003

[blam]

...a bit of trivia.

[exnavy]

already posted.

[Support Free Republic]

See that good looking dude on the left? He's got FAR BETTER THINGS to do than conduct Freepathons! Come on, let's get this thing over with.

[blam]

"already posted."

Sorry. I just assumed no-one else would post this article.

[Joe 6-pack]

WWYGD?

[Prodigal Son]

You know, if she had simply drunk a glass of water...

[Khurkris]

I hate it when this happens...

[ErnBatavia]

You'd think the doc would at least clean the fork before the photo op.

[exnavy]

It is rather funny though!

[andy58-in-nh]

How many more must swallow utensils before we institute a 7-day waiting period for silverware?

[Captainpaintball]

Yeah, yeah...likely story...people are always trying to put objects down there...

"I swear, doc! a cockroach jumped down my throat, and I tried to get him out with this fork!!!"

"It was a million to one shot, doc...a million to one!"

[AngrySpud]

Trying to visualize how this could have happened. Laying on her back under the kitchen sink with a slack jaw? Sweeping cobwebs off the ceiling?

I've inhaled some bush flies, but never got a creepy crawly in my mouth.

[Burkeman1]

I swallowed a pretty big bug just last week while I was in a Jeep Wrangler going over dunes. Shrugged it off as protein.

[Vesuvian]

I know an old lady who swallowed a spider that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

Anyone remember that from Sesame Street?

[Arpege92]

Strange....very strange.

[Iwo Jima]

How uncouth! Everyone knows that one does not use a dinner fork to remove a roach from one's throat. One uses an appetizer fork, n'est-ce pas?

Where is Miss Manners when you need her?

[Paul Atreides]

Woman Swallows Fork Trying To Retrieve Cockroach

I saw the title and thought it was more stuff from the Starr Report.

[Reo]

Anyone remember that from Sesame Street?

Sure do. My first thought was:

I know an old lady who swallowed a fork

What a dork; she swallowed a fork......

[ccmay]

This person is probably mentally deranged in some way. I've seen much worse cases:

-ccm

[Prof Engineer]

You think she would have learned not to do this after the first seven attempts!