Gold biscuits found inside man's stomach

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In a bizarre case, doctors of a city hospital found 12 gold biscuits each weighing 33g inside the abdomen of a 63-year-old businessman.

The businessman had come to the hospital for surgery, stating that he had swallowed a water bottle cap and wanted to get it out of his body.

?He approached us on April 7 seeking surgery to remove a water bottle cap which he claimed he had accidentally swallowed. We got an X-ray done and it didn?t appear to be a cap. As the gold bars got stacked one behind the other it appeared to be a metal,? said Dr C S Ramachandran, senior consulting surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram hospital.

A team of doctors operated upon him on Apr 9 to get through the abdominal cavity and remove the foreign metal. ?We were shocked to find not one but 12 gold biscuits in his abdomen. When we asked him he was not ready to speak. We immediately sealed them in a container and handed it over to the medical superitendent,? said Dr Ramachandran adding that the patient was discharged on Apr 15.

 

According to hospital sources, the man had swallowed the 12 gold biscuits, worth approximately Rs 12 lakhs [$23,000]  in all, to smuggle them into the country from Singapore 10 days ago.

He landed in trouble when he failed to get it out through his stool. It eventually started hurting him because of which he approached the doctors.

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I wonder what that feels like; to have giant blocks of metal kicking around in your stomach. Can you hear them clanking together? Is it this noticeable lump that slides back and forth when you move? Such an odd thing to think about.

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Seems it would have been easier, less risky to just mail the gold.