# It finally happened - after 3 years in X-ray!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 23, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374 "2006-12-23T20:11:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/1 "2006-12-23T20:11:16Z")
Yep, the gold standard of Radiology was finally attained a few weeks ago when a patient presented in the ER with a “foreign object in the rectum.”
A guy came in with a vibrator stuck inside him so far he couldn’t retrieve it.
The ER docs placed a flexible tube up past the ‘object’, inflated a balloon on the end of the tube, drew it back, and retrieved the vibrator.
It wasn’t foreign at all. It was made in Illinois.
_Then_, one week later, a different guy came in with a rubber dildo well-buried in keisterville. This, too, was ‘delivered’ without complication.
_Twice in the space of a week!_
Now, all I have to wait for is the fruit/vegetable/Coke bottle in the vagina, and my career will be complete.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/2 "2006-12-23T20:17:17Z")
What, no gerbil?
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/3 "2006-12-23T20:36:18Z")
The question is, was the vibe still running?
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/4 "2006-12-23T20:50:58Z")
Not my part of the body, (I work with the lungs and the heart) but we had a guy come into the ER about 5 years ago with a broken glass thermometer in the shaft of his penis.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/5 "2006-12-23T21:52:15Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodem]
Not my part of the body, (I work with the lungs and the heart) but we had a guy come into the ER about 5 years ago with a broken glass thermometer in the shaft of his penis.
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And I’m here to tell ya, that shit _STINGS_!
[sup]What?? Why’s everyone looking at me?[/sup]
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### Author:  [@beowulf573](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulf573)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/6 "2006-12-23T22:26:57Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad]
It wasn’t foreign at all. It was made in Illinois.
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That’s beautiful. _clap_ _clap_ _clap_
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/7 "2006-12-23T22:45:16Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodem]
Not my part of the body, (I work with the lungs and the heart) but we had a guy come into the ER about 5 years ago with a broken glass thermometer in the shaft of his penis.
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I had a kid in the er, early adolescent, let’s call it the age of discovery, get a hat pin so far down his urethra that we had to have the urologist get it out with a fiberoptic scope
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### Author:  [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/8 "2006-12-23T23:46:09Z")
They still make hat pins? Gosh!
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/9 "2006-12-24T00:12:20Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad]
_Then_, one week later, a different guy came in with a rubber dildo well-buried in keisterville. This, too, was ‘delivered’ without complication.
_Twice in the space of a week!_
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Congratulations. Keep on the watch, you may yet make the full grand slam .
Y’know, this could be turned into a “helpful hint” selling point at sex shops – have the sales clerk recommend the dildos with the sumulated testes at the base, as less likely to slip past the point of no return…
As to the lads sticking things up their urethras, specially sharp things or glass things: :eek:
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### Author:  [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/10 "2006-12-24T00:34:28Z")
[QUOTE=JRDelirious]
Y’know, this could be turned into a “helpful hint” selling point at sex shops – have the sales clerk recommend the dildos with the sumulated testes at the base, as less likely to slip past the point of no return…
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Most online sex stores adominish their patrons to only use dildos with flared bases for anal penetration for just that reason.
…er…so I’ve heard.
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### Author:  [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/11 "2006-12-24T01:02:04Z")
Hah! I used to work in Pathology (i.e. the hospital lab), and we’d see the FOBs come in every now and then. The best and most frightening was an aquarium lightbulb (decent size and shape, but made of thin-wall glass :eek: ). Otherwise it was usually a vibe/dildo.
Vlad/Igor
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### Author:  [@Li\_l\_Pluck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Li_l_Pluck)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/12 "2006-12-24T02:32:00Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodem]
… a broken glass thermometer in the shaft of his penis.
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:eek:
Okay, just READING that had me screaming for my mommy! (And \*\*I’ve \*\* been around the block! Okay…to the corner, then!)
And, **Rysdad** , I second what \*\*beowulf573 \*\* said–that made in Illinois bit was genius! 😃
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### Author:  [@Li\_l\_Pluck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Li_l_Pluck)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/13 "2006-12-24T02:34:40Z")
[QUOTE=outlierrn]
I had a kid in the er, early adolescent, let’s call it the age of discovery, get a hat pin so far down his urethra that we had to have the urologist get it out with a fiberoptic scope
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Hey! I’m tryin’ to EAT here! 😉
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### Author:  [@the\_chicken\_of\_exeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_chicken_of_exeter)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/14 "2006-12-24T03:52:24Z")
Over the summer I saw a woman come into the ER with a _plug-in air freshener_ stuck in her vagina. The bast part was she came in with her husband who had no idea what was going on, although he had been in the house with her at the time.
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### Author:  [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/15 "2006-12-24T04:40:54Z")
[QUOTE=the chicken of exeter]
Over the summer I saw a woman come into the ER with a _plug-in air freshener_ stuck in her vagina. The bast part was she came in with her husband who had no idea what was going on, although he had been in the house with her at the time.
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You know, this is funny if you imagine something strange and sexual led to this situation. But, it’s downright hysterical if you imagine she had that “not-so-fresh” feeling and didn’t grasp how the plug-in air freshener worked.
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/16 "2006-12-24T05:28:02Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodem]
Not my part of the body, (I work with the lungs and the heart) but we had a guy come into the ER about 5 years ago with a broken glass thermometer in the shaft of his penis.
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[Wimpers in sympathetic pain. Covers crotch protectively.] I can’t even imagine what would inspire a guy to do this. Up your ass, sure, but up your _urethra_?! :eek:
I don’t even want to think about the hat pin guy.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/17 "2006-12-24T05:40:42Z")
[QUOTE=Vlad/Igor]
Hah! I used to work in Pathology (i.e. the hospital lab), and we’d see the FOBs come in every now and then. The best and most frightening was an aquarium lightbulb (decent size and shape, but made of thin-wall glass :eek: ). Otherwise it was usually a vibe/dildo.
Vlad/Igor
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FOB?
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/18 "2006-12-24T08:01:40Z")
I’m still waiting for the Matchbox car.
We had someone a few weeks ago with a squash where the sun don’t shine. Longer and wider than a pop can. Surgeon almost had to cut his bowel open to get it out even after patient and his sphincter were completely relaxed in the OR.
Suggestions to heat the patient up in a 350 oven, and “lube” it out with brown sugar and butter were poorly received.
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/19 "2006-12-24T08:41:55Z")
[QUOTE=Dr\_Paprika]
I’m still waiting for the Matchbox car.
We had someone a few weeks ago with a squash where the sun don’t shine. Longer and wider than a pop can. Surgeon almost had to cut his bowel open to get it out even after patient and his sphincter were completely relaxed in the OR.
Suggestions to heat the patient up in a 350 oven, and “lube” it out with brown sugar and butter were poorly received.
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I must be tired - I thought that was a hysterical suggestion 🙂
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### Author:  [@Aunt\_Flow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aunt_Flow)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2006, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-finally-happened-after-3-years-in-x-ray/385374/20 "2006-12-24T08:45:41Z")
Jeebus people. There’s websites with VERY cheap and a lot safter toys to play with. What does a squash have that a ribbed and bumped, waterproof purple vibrator with three speed settings and an easy grip base doesn’t have?
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