# Swallowing a small speck of glass, then getting sent home from the emergency. Weird or not?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 18, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swallowing-a-small-speck-of-glass-then-getting-sent-home-from-the-emergency-weird-or-not/568140 "2011-01-18T23:21:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swallowing-a-small-speck-of-glass-then-getting-sent-home-from-the-emergency-weird-or-not/568140/21 "2016-08-22T13:17:42Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Bumped.
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> My considered medical opinion is, don’t swallow 40 knives: [http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/22/health/india-man-with-knives-stomach/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/22/health/india-man-with-knives-stomach/index.html)

When sword-swallowers snack.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swallowing-a-small-speck-of-glass-then-getting-sent-home-from-the-emergency-weird-or-not/568140/22 "2016-08-22T16:12:30Z")

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In case he didn’t come up before in this old thread, here is a [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito) to the guy who ate an airplane.

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