A lot of stupid things are done in the name of bravado – but this has to be one of the worst.
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A lot of stupid things are done in the name of bravado but this has to be one of the worst.
A man has had SEVEN six-inch nails removed from his stomach after swallowing them impress friends.
The unnamed braggart was rushed to hospital two months after performing the ridiculous party trick in front of pals.
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The 28-year-old man apparently felt fine until he recently began experiencing a sharp pain in his stomach.
Doctors in Aksu, a city in north-west China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, found that the nails, measuring some 15 centimetres (5.91 inches) in length, had unsurprisingly torn through his stomach.
X-rays of his abdomen revealed the long nails scattered in his midriff.
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He was rushed into emergency surgery to remove the nails, of which there were seven, with the eighth having passed naturally.
Fortunately for the man, he was admitted to hospital before his condition became life-threatening, with doctors expecting him to make a full recovery.
The patient said: "I didn't feel anything after swallowing the nails I never thought it would be this serious."
Incredibly, the man claimed he had done a similar trick several years ago and all the nails had apparently passed within a few days.
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It turns out that it was his friends who actually put an end to the dangerous performance while he admitted he would have swallowed even more.
The patient is now in a stable condition and under observation in the hospital.
