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Title: Drunk (UK) student swallows his door key rather than go home
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Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li ... icle_id=512411&in_page_id=1770
Published: Feb 5, 2008
Author: Daily Mail
Post Date: 2008-02-07 12:19:06 by robin
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Views: 53
Comments: 1
This is the picture that solved the mystery of a drunken student's lost door key. Chris Foster had no memory of swallowing the two-inch Yale key at a party to stop his friends taking him home when they decided he had had enough to drink. Scroll down for more... The x-ray showing Chris Foster's door key lodged in his stomach - it stayed in his system for 31 hours The 18-year-old computer design student spent the night on a convenient sofa and did not believe his friends when they told him why he couldn't find his key the next day. When he started feeling unwell, however, he began to suspect they might be telling the truth and went to hospital for an X-ray which revealed the key nestling in his stomach. Doctors sent him home, telling him to let nature take its course, and the key emerged 31 hours later. After a thorough rinse it was back on Chris's fob - saving him the £20 his landlord would have charged for a replacement. Chris said: "I had quite a lot to drink and had no recollection of swallowing my door key. "I slept on a friend's sofa that night and couldn't find it anywhere the next day. "I thought it was a bit of a windup when my friend said I had swallowed it. "But my throat started to feel very sore and my stomach didn't feel right so my friend took me to hospital on the bus. Scroll down for more... Bournemouth University student swallowed the key because he wanted to carry on drinking, not go home "After waiting for five hours, I was given an X-ray. "I was stunned when I first saw the key in my stomach but then couldn't stop laughing - even the doctors were sniggering. "They just told me to wait for nature to take its course. Luckily I didn't need keyhole surgery!" Ben Mitchem, who accompanied Chris to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, said: "The key was so obvious on the X-ray you couldn't help but laugh." The saga began when Chris, who is at Bournemouth University, went to a party in the student halls. After having a "fair bit" to drink his friends tried to take him to his room but he did not want to leave so staged the bizarre protest. He said: "We had a party and I was having a great time. "From what I have been told I had drunk quite a fair bit. My friends all said I'd had far too much and should go to my room but I didn't want to. "I wanted to stay at the party so I swallowed my door key dry." His horrified friend Matt Taylor, 19, attempted to recover the key using the Heimlich manoeuvre of abdominal thrusts, but without success. Chris was also given salt water to drink in an attempt to bring up the key but that also failed.
Poster Comment: Heard this on the radio on the way to work this morning.
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#1. To: robin (#0)
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What a moron - prime Darwin awards material. It's too bad he didn't choke to death on it and improve the UK gene pool.
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