Doctors took X-rays of Mr. Zarate after he complained of sharp stomach pains. What they found was 17 different strange objects littering his stomach and colon. Among them: screws, bolts, barbed-wire, nails, pens, a knife and a watch clasp. Wow.

Not surprisingly, these unusual delicacies had caused Zarate’s stomach to expand, and surgery was performed to remove the unwelcome objects.

Doctors have said that Zarate is mentally ill, but the reasons he went heavy metal are unknown.

I guess I’ll think differently about all that pizza I ate for lunch today after this now, how ’bout you?

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Sounds extreme. But is it really ? People have been starting over forever. Think Pilgrims. Think immigrants.

But Ian Usher’s way of starting over involves selling his life on e-bay…

From Sunday, June 22 for one week, Usher’s life is up for sale on eBay with the package including his $US420,000 ($NZ556,000) three-bedroom house in Perth, Western Australia, a trial for his job at a rug store, his car, motorbike, clothes and even friends.

Turns out Usher’s not the first one to try and sell his life on e-bay. According to this Reuters article….

• Australian philosophy student Nicael Holt, 24, offered his life to the highest bidder last year to protest mass consumerism.
• American John Freyer started All My Life For Sale (www.allmylifeforsale.com) in 2001 and sold everything he owned on eBay, later visiting the people who bought his things.
• Adam Burtle, a 20-year-old US university student, offered his soul for sale on eBay in 2001, with bidding hitting $US400 before eBay called it off. Burtle admitted he was a bored geek.

Unlike Burtle, Usher appears to be the real deal. The homepage of his website A Life 4 Sale says it all…

Hi there, my name is Ian Usher, and I have had enough of my life! I don’t want it any more! You can have it if you like!

No, I’m not contemplating suicide, I am going to sell my life!! I have my reasons, for further details click the “Why” tab below. However, I am still not sure whether this is inspired madness, complete foolishness, or just some sort of mid-life crisis.

Whatever it is, it’s all going up for sale in one big auction. Everything I have and everything I am.

On the day it is all sold and settled I intend to walk out of my front door with my wallet in one pocket and my passport in the other, nothing else at all, and get on the train, with no idea where I am going or what the future holds for me.

He’s got me intrigued. What about you?

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Well, if you’re a seemingly normal 9-year-old girl in central Greece, you not only have a twin, but you carry her (or him) around in your stomach.

Yes, this is true. The girl, who was suffering from stomach pains and a swollen belly, went to the hospital where doctors surgically removed a growth that was found to be the girl’s embryonic twin. A formed fetus, it was two inches long and had a head, hair and eyes – but no brain or umbilical cord.

The girl has since made a full recovery, but the staggering thing is that this phenomenon has happened before. While it certainly isn’t considered common, instances where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb (called fetus in fetu) happens in about one in 500,000 live births.

Once again, I am in awe of the human body and mysterious behavior of Mother Nature. You?

Source: msnbc.com

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Wowza. Now here’s a story that’ll make you think twice about the phrase “Shit or get off the pot”.

Seems a 35-year-old Kansas woman by the name of Pam Babcock has been spending so much time on the pot that her skin actually started growing around the seat. No, I swear I’m not kidding.

What’s more? This didn’t happen overnight. Nah, this poor woman has been living in her boyfriend’s bathroom for two years. Two years!

Says boyfriend Kory McFarren:

“She is an adult; she made her own decision. I should have gotten help for her sooner; I admit that. But after a while, you kind of get used to it.”

Well sure, guy. Who wouldn’t find it commonplace to have another human being occupying your bathroom for years on end. I mean, yeah. Totally normal.

According to McFarren, his lady had a phobia about leaving the bathroom due to a tumultuous childhood. Her visits to the powder room became progressively longer until one day she decided she was going to stay, “like it was a safe place for her”.

During this time, Ms. Babcock moved around the bathroom, bathed, ate and drank, and changed into clothes that McFarren brought to her. The two had conversations and an otherwise normal relationship (um, I wonder if that includes, well, you know). Pretty much business as usual – except it all happened in the loo.

McFarren finally called the law on February 27 after Babcock became groggy. Police found her sitting on the toilet, clothed but with her pants pulled down mid-thigh, with atrophied legs. The toilet seat had to be removed from the tank with a pry bar, and hitched a ride on Babcock’s ass all the way to the hospital, where it was finally removed.

Babcock initially refused any help, saying she was okay and didn’t want to leave. But with a bit of coaxing, she finally conceded. McFarren maintains that he asked her to leave the bathroom every day, but her answer would always be, “Maybe tomorrow”.

While Babcock is listed in fair condition at our source’s press time, she does have an infection in her legs that has damaged her nerves and may sentence her to a wheelchair.

So, um, if we didn’t learn a life’s lesson here, than, wow. If you have to hit the porcelain throne, get yer business done and get out. And if you are stricken with a phobia (which is totally serious and we are definitely not making fun of), try to make sure you get help before you start a new (and unsavory) trend in bum jewelry.

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