Status: Partially true
Yahoo News! has posted
this odd story about a woman who, in a fit of rage, swallowed an entire cellphone:
A lovers' dispute over a cell phone ended suddenly when the woman swallowed the phone whole, police said. Police said they received a call at 4:52 a.m. Friday from a Blue Springs man who said his girlfriend was having trouble breathing. When they arrived at the house they found the 24-year-old woman had a cell phone lodged in her throat. "He wanted the phone and she wouldn't give it to him, so she attempted to swallow it," Detective Sgt. Steve Decker of the Blue Springs Police Department. "She just put the entire phone in her mouth so he couldn't get it."
I'm not the only one to whom this sounds like an urban legend being reported as news.
Real Tech News wonders "what kind of phone it was since I can think of plenty that won’t fit into your mouth that easily." Seriously, it would have to be an incredibly small phone to fit down someone's throat, though I suppose there are people with the ability to swallow large, rigid objects. In the past they might have enjoyed careers as circus performers. This case reminds me of the story I posted about over a year ago of
a dog who swallowed a cell phone.
Update: Looks like the woman may have involuntarily swallowed the phone. In other words, it's a case of assault. It didn't seem like the kind of thing that someone would voluntarily swallow.
Comments
Or, erm, working girls. :lol:
I'll resist the temptation to make a joke about what else she can fit in her mouth.
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/12/26/swallowing_cell_phone_may_not_be_voluntary/
December 26, 2005
BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. --A woman who police thought deliberately tried to swallow her cell phone during an argument with her boyfriend was apparently the victim of an assault instead, authorities said.
Police have a suspect in the bizarre incident that sent the 24-year-old woman to the hospital last week, Sgt. Allen Kintz said. Police would not say whether the boyfriend was the suspect and would not explain exactly what they believe happened.
"It appears she didn't voluntarily swallow this phone," Kintz said. "It's not quite the way it was first portrayed."
Early Friday, police responded to a call from a Blue Springs man who said his girlfriend was having trouble breathing. Police arrived to find a woman with a cell phone lodged in her throat.
Police were initially told the boyfriend wanted the phone and the woman tried to swallow it so that he could not get it.
How exactly did he dial the phone?
On the other hand, there *are* some really tiny phones around, like this Panasonic model that you could conceivably shove in someone's throat if you were determined enough. There's pic of it in Popgadget's October archives (I think) with a US quarter for comparison.
..it could happen.