When this blog came into existence, I decided that it would hold the sole purpose of containing the world’s most ridiculous news. To that extent, each morning I scour the internet. I search. I pick through the refuse of dribble and dive into the proverbial dumpster of information to bring to you the most odd of oddities. Most of them are believable. I like to think that most of them are the truth. Maybe I am just a pessimist when it comes to just how stupid people can be. Or would that be an optimist? Alas - Not even I, with all of my infinite imagination, can bring myself to believe what I am going to post here. In fact, I found /two/ separate versions of the tale, one from London, and one from India. In lieu of this, I have decided to post them both:
LONDON — A tiny fish found its way into a teenage boy’s body in Britain by traveling up the teen’s penis into his urethra, doctors say. Doctors G. Vezhaventhan and R. Jeyaraman, whose full first names were not reported, said the fish apparently entered the teen’s body while he was going to the bathroom, The Sun reported Thursday. The medical experts, who treated the boy for complaints of pain and urinary retention, said in a paper that the young man made the regrettable mistake of urinating while holding the tiny fish.
“While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra and then he developed all these symptoms.“, they wrote. The animal, thought to be part of the Betta genus, was removed using a medical device designed to remove bladder stones, the Sun said.
And so there you have the first one. Unbelievable, right? Here comes more!
A two centimeter long fish apparently found it’s way into the penis of a 14-year-old boy from India. This lead doctors to further investigate and write a case study on the findings.
Case Presentation:
“A 14 year old boy came to us with complaints of pain, difficulty in voiding with dribbling of urine and subsequently developed acute urinary retention of 24 hours duration. On further questioning he gave an interesting history. While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. While he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra and then he developed all these symptoms. . Plain X ray KUB was normal. Abdominal Ultrasonogram showed normal kidneys, bladder was full and a 1.5 Cm echogenic object found inside the bladder without any after shadow.”
Conclusion:
“Introduction of foreign bodies into the bladder may be through self-insertion, iatrogenic means or migration from adjacent organs. Extraction should be tailored according to the nature of the foreign body and should minimize bladder and urethral trauma. Complete extraction should also be confirmed by panendoscopy at the end of the extraction procedure. The possibility of an intravenous foreign body should be considered in any patient with chronic unexplained lower urinary tract symptoms.”
Blogger’s Comment: “What the fuck. Uh. It also might be worth mentioning that this is not ‘current’ news, but it was so astounding and completely obvious bullshit that I had to post it. It deserved an anniversary. A bullshit anniversary.”
