Lots of crazy stuff in the news this past week. I've been sharing them with friends on Facebook, where they have engendered no small amount of mirth and merriment. So I thought I'd post about them here too!
First up is this recall notice about a brand of honey that is being pulled off the shelves because somehow, somewhere along the manufacturing process, an active ingredient in erectile dysfunction medication made it into the finished product.
Next up is a story from Colorado about a man who is suing Walmart after claiming to be severely injured. The man apparently bought raw bake-to-eat sourdough bread without first warming it up in an oven. The bread expanded inside his stomach and allegedly brought on immense pain and suffering.
I saw that in an old episode of Emergency! awhile back. Johnny and Roy got called to help a guy who ate unbaked bread dough and he had to get taken to Rampart. So stupidity about this kind of thing goes back a fair bit. It seems.
And finally there comes this item from France, where a man was taken to the hospital, no doubt in severe pain. That's where doctors found an eight-inch long unexploded artillery shell from World War I lodged in his rectum.
(Brings entirely new meaning to "fire in the hole!" does it not?)
I shared that last story with a friend who is a physician in Belgium. She said that's it's hard to believe: the kinds of objects that people come in that are shoved up their, errr... rear. Some people have even died from it.
What fascinated me most about that story though is that it was a live round from World War I. That was over a hundred years ago. Over the years there have been quite a few stories about still-live shells from that conflict being found. So much of France and Belgium came under artillery fire during the Great War that it's possible there will still be undetonated shells found for the next one hundred years.
Maybe I should make "news of the weird" a regular feature on this blog. What do y'all think?
