The Man who swallowed a fork (and forgot).

[Rubyretro]

This whole story is so mind boggling to me in every detail, that I just had to post it..

http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CEcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-2189724%2FPatient-40-inch-plastic-fork-trapped-stomach-TEN-YEARS-accidentally-swallowed-it.html&ei=l6YuUJ2_D8Ob1AXilYDoDA&usg=AFQjCNEqW28h0c6xF1KZ8ugXzB3GAJ6SHw&cad=rja

How can you swallow a plastic fork 'by accident' ?
Is it true that people commonly swallow batteries and coins by accident (come on ! own up ! how ???).
How could you forget that you'd swallowed a fork ?
How could you fail to notice if you'd shat it or not ?
How come that man is supposed to be 'only' 40 ?
How come he was playing with a plastic fork in his mouth aged 30 ?
Is really what surgeons get 'excited' about ? ( "oh, God. Another battery swallower. No ! Guys ! I've found a manky blackened bit of plastic ! This is just so exciting !).
Do surgeons use the word 'tummy' ? Or only journalists (I thought that was a 'baby word'

This story holds an endless fascination for me..

[Errata]

I don't know about coins or batteries, though some people use coins to train themselves to swallow something and bring it back up, like a key for magic tricks. I always thought candy would be safer, but whatever. But most people I know including myself have swallowed pins. When you have a dozen pins in your mouth because you are fitting a costume, it happens. Technically its more of an inhale than a swallow, but I've never heard them going down the trachea. It's a terrible habit. And I know hairdressers who swallowed bobby pins.

[Cogidubnus]

Gulp

Oh I don't know...when I married my first wife I swallowed my pride and don't recall doing so...my current wife claims the same!

Dave

[Rubyretro]

I don't know about coins or batteries, though some people use coins to train themselves to swallow something and bring it back up, like a key for magic tricks. I always thought candy would be safer, but whatever. But most people I know including myself have swallowed pins. When you have a dozen pins in your mouth because you are fitting a costume, it happens. Technically its more of an inhale than a swallow, but I've never heard them going down the trachea. It's a terrible habit. And I know hairdressers who swallowed bobby pins.

I understood the nails and pins, Errata, and that's why I didn't quote them ...
but ...batteries ?? Or the plastic fork ?

[Rubyretro]

Oh I don't know...when I married my first wife I swallowed my pride and don't recall doing so...my current wife claims the same!

Dave

-ah, but did you excrete it ? Or is it still there, deep down ?...

[Cogidubnus]

No, I've no remaining pride, hence I'm prepared to appear here....(heh heh)

Dave

[Robert]

If Uri Geller swallowed a fork, would he have a twisted gut?