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Subscribe to RSSDid your grandpa ever tell you that if you swallowed a watermelon seed, a watermelon would start to grow in your stomach? This guy's got a better story than that. Ron Sveden, of Massachusetts, apparently swallowed a pea that went down the wrong pipe a few months ago -- and then the pea sprouted and started growing. In his lung.
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wow
That's why you never believe your mom when she says that veggies are good for you!
So THIS is why kids hate veggies!
When I was little, about 3, I shoved a pumpkin seed up my nose. Mom took me to the dr. and he said there was nothing wrong. She took me home, laid me on the kitchen table and pulled out the seed that had sprouted with a tweezer. So take your mom's advice and don't stick strange objects in your nose!!!
When I was 2 or 3 I put a gravel rock up my nose. I was sent to two different hospitals before they were able to get it out. My mom kept it and still tells me (I’m now 30) that my rock cost more than the rock on her finger. (meaning they paid more for it than they paid for my moms engagement ring)
AAAAAnd this one time, in band camp.............
When I was a little kid, I stuck a chapstick up my nose. Thank goodness they could melt it with hot compresses.
Sheri
i wish someone would lock me in room full of nice thick big eight hotdogs and throw away the key.
Sick...Very sick!
cecil-longhole - I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that we also all wish someone would lock you in a room and throw away the key! Your disgusting comments have absolutely nothing to do with the story line, and we don't really care about what excites you. Unless you have something intelligent to say, keep your disgusting thoughts to yourself! You sound like a total pervert!
They need to lock cecil up with barney and throw away the key
I would love it if barney used a big eight hotdog and had his way with me. Yum Yum
From a very young age my mom told me that if I ate watermelon seeds they would sprout out of my ears. To this day is still swallow the seeds; waiting for those sprouts. I think mom had this one wrong.
utterly dreadful
This is the sort of now mainstream "news" story that you only found in the National Enquirer when I was a kid.
What do you want to hear about murder and BS political views. Come on. When have you ever heard about something like this? Is it earth shattering? No. Does every story have to be. Lighten up!
Come on, News of the Weird has been a syndicated column for years and years and years carrying stories like this. Do you only read page A1?
allthumbs has it right.... This is news? NOT!!
News...
1 a : a report of recent events b : previously unknown information <I've got news for you ---This is from Merriam-Webster OnLine .
Since it is recent and is previously unkown information, I would say it qualifies as News. ofb
sesame seeds can grow (sprout) in your stomach and kidneys too. They are on many burger buns. Many years ago my mom had them sprout in her stomach and kidneys. So avoiding anything with tiny seeds is healthier.I can not believe a pea sprouted. I thought seeds had to dryed out first to grow, just as the dry peas or the sesame seeds are already dryed out and they can grow. So now what about rye bread seeds and strawberry or grape seeds? makes you wonder...
You must have meant to say stomach and intestines, since it is physically impossible for a swallowed seed to reach the kidneys. It would have to go through the stomach, intestines, breach the intestinal wall, travel the blood stream, pass through the heart (which would be a death sentence), try not to get lodged in the lungs or brain, before it had a hope of reaching the area of the kidneys, it would have to breach another vascular wall (or two) to get into the kidneys themselves, but by then you'd be dead 4 times over, so at least the seed would have plenty of food. =-p That's assuming this isn't just some trollish prank entirely.
Not. First of all, how would they get to the kidneys? How do they survive digestion? Seeds on hamburg rolls etc. are cooked along with the roll. I don't know what your mother had but she didn't have sprouted seeds in her stomach/kidneys. You, on the other hand, were quite possibly sprouted under a bridge.
Sesame seeds from a bun or any other seed on any other baked good will NOT grow in your stomach or anywhere else. The high temps needed for baking destroys the germ (growing part) of the seed. Only if you ate raw beans or seeds could this possibly happen.
leepets i hate to tell you this the only seed that sprouted was your fathers and the operation she had was called an abortion. unfortunatly for her you lived
@rationally...why does your cruelty have to be interjected here? Go get a life, and maybe meet some other human beings that could possibly teach you compassion. Or not...and keep on being a twat.
Sounds like Daddy jerked off in a flower pot and out came a blooming idiot. I once had an apple tree sprout out of my bunghole after I ate it. You believe me?
leepets, you are obviously a very, very gullible person, as well as ignorant and uneducated. To get from the stomach to the kidneys, things must first pass through the intestines, be digested, and absorbed into the bloodstream. When there is a direct route from stomach to kidneys, there is also a very dangerous medical problem -- and the remedy is surgery and a lengthy hospital stay.
Steph82, it is not really cruelty to inform a person that they are an idiot. rationally may have over-stepped the boundaries of good taste -- but he/she is merely pointing out that leepets needs to return to her/his village. They miss their uneducated, ignorant, gullible idiot.
Gastric acids in your stomach dissolves most food particles that we eat, that's why despite the fact that our grandmothers, mothers, aunties and whoever else told us not to swallow watermelon seeds, they are harmless--unless of course you CHOKE on one. Still, bizarre news is kinda funny in a world of mayhem and destruction. (SMILE)
yeah steph i was just pointing out the stupidity misinformation in this world is 1 of our biggest problems. i may hace steped over the so called line but me personnely i think its funny get a life you over sensitive b tards
"Boy trapped in refrigerator eats own foot"
Why do I know this a quote.. never mind- It's a headline from Airplane ! isn't i.
leepets, apparently your mom had no acid in her stomach and injected seeds into her bloodstream for one to get to her kidney... I think you have been told a tall tale so to speak.
Agree.
There seem to be more stories of people growing things in their lungs these days!
First it was the guy who inhaled either a seed or part of a piece of fir(?) tree... then the guy who took a big gulp of soda at Wendy's and somehow ended up with a broken piece of a Wendy's plastic fork/spoon in his lung!
I wonder if we just need to start walking around with our faces wrapped in cheesecloth or something... lol O_o
fork/spoon - would you mean the spork by any chance?
it is called a spork....KFC has them
I prefer foons
I can't explain how this disturbs me...yecchhh
Had a similar situation with my mother-in-law. There was a spot that showed up on her lung and antibiotics did nothing so the doctor asked us to be on hand during surgery in case any "decisions" had to be made. Turns out it was a watermelon seed that had spouted and was clinging to her lung. After all it's a warm and wet spot...just what seeds love!
Mr. Sveden would have to have inhaled a raw, dried pea seed for it to have sprouted in his lung. A cooked pea will not sprout, nor will a baked sesame seed from a hamburger bun. The showing of a can of peas in the video is very misleading.
Actually, seeds and grains do not have to dry to become viable. If they have matured, many seeds can and do sprout. This man had to have been eating raw peas, though, as a cooked or canned peak could never sprout.
What is not addressed here, is how did this man inhale a pea without noticing it? Whenever I get even a little bit of water "going down the wrong way", I cough for minutes. Of course, there may be desensitization with the emphysema that he has.
I have had far too many un-dried seeds sprout to believe that all seeds have to be dried (or chilled/frozen) before they can germinate; the latest are some peas that I took directly from the pods less than one week ago, and they never had a chance to dry out at all. The only reason seeds absolutely need to be dried at all is so they can be stored for long periods of time without them germinating -- and sprouting.
Two things are required for any mature seed to germinate: Heat and Moisture, and each must be in the proper "dosage". Too much heat kills the seed, too little heat and the seed will not germinate; the same goes for Moisture. The inside of a living human lung is one of the best places to find the optimum growing conditions for most seeds.
And yes, it is most likely that Mr. Sveden's emphysema in some way led to enough desensitization to allow him to inhale the seed without knowing it.
OMG! It's a shame some carrots didn't migrate into his other lung. He could make his own side dish. And I was conceited enough to think that I had heard it all...
OMG! You make me sick with your OMG sh!t.
And the immaturity of people such as Beavis454 makes everyone else sick.
thank goodness it wasn't a weed plant!!!!
OMG!!! Can you imagine if someone inhaled a bud and it started to grow in their lungs? They'd be high 24/7 LOL!
Uh oh... just wait, that's going to be the next crazy thing teenagers start trying to do...
According to my mom, if you swallow a seed (watermelon, cherry pit, whatever) the sprout grows out of your EAR. When I was little, I used to check my ears all of the time to see if anything was growing out of there. Who knew that seeds would grow in your lungs? Hey did you know that you can catch a bird if you put some salt on its tail? That's another one from my mom's collection of tall tales.
Yeah... if you get close enough to a bird to put salt on its tail... you can pretty much just grab the bird. That's pretty much what they were getting at.
i think this is a bunch of baloney
You are allowed to think that, if you really want to -- but he has the documentation that verifies that it really did happen.
Oh, and it ain't baloney -- it's a pea sprout.
learn your anatomy and you will relize you can swallow a seed and have it go down your lung, haven't you ever swallowed something and have it go down the wrong pipe, think about when you choke and the food blocks the windpipe, if small enough you dont choke it goes into the lungs. causes you to cough a hell of a lot but it can happen. DUH!
eeeew!
if it was boloney he would of sprouted a cow
Don't you mean a pig?
beef baloney!!!
ok seeing as everyone is pointing out everyone elses grammer problems i m gonna join its spelled bologna
A guy goes into his doctor's office and says, "Doc, you've gotta help me. I've got peas growing in my lung!"
The doctor replies, "Oh, my. You must be very upset."
The guy yells, "Damn right, I am. I planted radishes!"
ba dum-bump!
Sorry to disagree with you, but there is no possible way that sesame seeds can get to your kidneys. The digestive tract is a one-way path to excrement - the only way anything can get to the kidneys is to be absorbed into the blood stream - and, sorry, but sesame seeds are way too big to do so. Also, gastric acid in your stomach would destroy them on contact. Good try, though.
Zoot, you are correct: To get to the kidneys, what is swallowed must be absorbed into the bloodstream, through the intestines.
But gastric acids do not destroy anything on contact. It takes at least a few minutes for even the strongest of gastric acids to get through even a sesame seed. It's why coroners are able to identify what a person has eaten in the past few hours before their death when that person ends up on the coroner's autopsy table.
If you swallow something and it goes down the wrong pipe into the lungs, then antibodies that protect the lungs are suppose to destroy it before it has a chance to grow. (remember the movie" Fantastic Voyage"?)
The movie "The Fantastic Voyage" is just that: A movie. It is Fiction, based on fact, but still Fiction.
Those anti-bodies you speak of are found in the blood, and the pea apparently was not in direct contact with Mr. Sveden's blood.
My cousin had something similar happen to him. We were playing by the railroad tracks near our house and he started coughing violently. Ufortunately he stumbled onto the tracks at the same time a freight train was coming by. He lost both legs. His parents tried to sew but the judge threw the case out of court. He told them that their son didn't have a leg to stand on........Top that Da Ref...........
Did you cousin's parents sew or file a lawsuit?
I thought maybe they tried to "SEW" his legs back on
Good catch! Sue Are either of you lawyers? Or just spell checkers?