Things people got stuck in themselves: 2016 roundup
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Americans just can’t stop sticking things in themselves and each other.
Renewing an inward-looking annual tradition, Deadspin has released an inventory of items that people stuffed, shoehorned or otherwise deposited into human orifices across the nation.
Culling emergency-room data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the site organized the list by cavity — ranging from the nostrils to the nether regions. The website did not always specify just why these items ended up where they did.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}But American ears, for example, attracted all sorts of odds and ends, from an unspecified chess piece to a deceased beetle.
One person opted for a flammable liquid and filled his ear canal with gasoline.
American noses were subjected to a startling array of insertions, including a plastic snake and miniature hockey sticks.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The commission offered a detailed description of one wayward nasal project involving a raisin:
“STUCK A RAISIN UP HIS RIGHT NOSTRIL, BROTHER TRIED TO REMOVE WITH TWEEZERS BUT PATIENT MOVED,” one emergency-room report read.