One day a 50 year old man entered my emergency room with something strange in his left ear, wich appeared to be a broken cotton swab-stick. It took me a few minutes tho remove the wooden stick, wich poked into his inner hearing tube.

The man told me he felt something in his ear that didn't belong there, an as it seemed to be very deep, he desided to push it through his ear, hoping he could pick it up on the other side of his head.

Unfortunately for the gene pool, lucky for him, he didn't succeed as the stick broke when pushing it against the hard, bony inner ear tube.

Submitted on 04/22/2009

Submitted by: T. de Ruiter
Reference: early 1991

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Bruce said:
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Egads! This guy must have learned anatomy from watching Bugs Bunny cartoons! Frankly I'm surprised we've not encountered stories like this before. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Candi said:
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I agree with Bruce!

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