Puppy Swallows 13-inch Knife

[CalMeacham]

This is an actual CNN headline right now. It sounds like a joke – the ultimate soft-news attention-grabbing headline, but it’s for real:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/26/puppy.swallows.knife.ap/index.html
The puppy is OK. They apparently originally thought this a joke. My favorite line:

She thinks one of her six other dogs – four Saint Bernards, a German shepherd and a Labrador – somehow got the knife off a counter and it eventually made its way to Elsie.

“But Holmes, the dog was only a puippy. How could it have gotten a knife from the countertop?”

“Watson, you will not apply my methods. How many times have I said that, once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth?”

“Then … Holmes! One of the other dogs must have don it!”

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[Phlosphr]

I’d like to have seent he x-ray…Aside from that…WOW!

[Little_Nemo]

She thinks one of her six other dogs – four Saint Bernards, a German shepherd and a Labrador – somehow got the knife off a counter and it eventually made its way to Elsie.

“That new puppy’s been getting all the attention lately. I’m thinking maybe little Elsie should have an ‘accident’. Round up Shep and Rover and we’ll get the knife off the counter.”

[rjk]

@Phlosphr

I’d like to have seent he x-ray…Aside from that…WOW!

Click the “Next” button below the photo.

“Hey, Elsie! Betcha can’t eat this!”

[WhyNot]

@Phlosphr

I’d like to have seent he x-ray…Aside from that…WOW!

Click on the little yellow arrow underneath the picture of the puppy and vet.

[Hung_Mung]

My evil plans are coming to fruition…muahahahahahahahah!cough

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

“Or what? You’ll release the dogs, or the knives, or the dogs with knives in their mouths and when they bark they shoot knives at you? Well, go ahead – do your worst!”

[Amp]

Holy cow, I own that exact same knife. Cheap piece of crap.

[Dewey_Finn]

I’m just as flabbergasted by the story as the fact that she has four Saint Bernards, a German Shepard and a Labrador retriever. Her dog food bills must be immense.

[Mangetout]

Weird. Reminds me of the one about the guy who fell off a chair in his kitchen and sustained just a small wound behind his ear, but afterward could only find the broken-off handle of his eight-inch kitchen knife. the blade was later located running diagonally through his head, but somehow not damaging any structure that could kill him.

[FlyingRamenMonster]

Thinking about that makes me shudder.