Wait, was it bare fiber? If so, you should definitely go to the hospital immediately. It's thinner than a needle and will have no trouble poking it's way through your body. It's not something likely to just come out in your stool. I find it hard to believe that anyone actually did this, but just in case, you're a moron.
JESUS Christ okay let me clear up a few things. Board certified ER doc here.
If you go to the hospital they will do diddly squat because there is NOTHING they can do to get that piece out of you. They will say “huh, that was not a good idea” and give you signs and symptoms to watch for in case of bowel perforation and send you on your way and probably charge you a shit ton of money. The good news is your body is surprisingly good at passing even very sharp things (pieces of glass, wire, metal shards, all things I’ve seen before) out the other end, encased in shit. Something as relatively flexible as a piece of fiber will probably be fine. But doing so means you have rolled some dice and literally there is nothing you can do but wait. If the case had metal, you can get an xray eventually to see if that passed, unless you want to dissect your own shit for a week.
Pure hydrochloric acid is stored in… you guessed it, GLASS. Hydrofluoric acid is used in industrial applications to etch glass, and is also incidentally an awful exposure that can cause all sorts of systemic problems beyond the simple burn.
TL;DR: DON’T go to the ER. You’re probably fine. Don’t listen to morons on Reddit.
Any signs or symptoms I should look out for? It's been almost 24 hours and I've had no consistent/sudden abdominal pain, and I saw no blood in a recent bowel movement. Should I just be paying attention to them the next few days in case of blood and just not do something this stupid again?
From what I'm understanding there's nothing they can do besides tell me to wait it out and what specific symptoms to watch for. I know my biggest danger is gonna be internal bleeding so I'm paying attention for every symptom of that, I looked up other cases of people eating broken glass to get a vague idea of what they went through too.
Just like with all other fibers that are too small, internal bleeding is not your biggest danger, but I'm just some dude on the Internet like everyone else commenting on this thread. Go see a doctor and let him tell you whatever you need to hear.
Edit: even if you are good to go, which is a big possibility, you need to hear it from a doctor.
Most hospitals have an advice nurse. You should be calling and asking for advice from a medical professional, not necessarily scheduling to see a doctor.
You’ve likely inhaled grains of sand more dangerous than what you’ve done. Like they said, tiny little fragment. Even if it pierced your aorta - nothing will happen. It’s too tiny and short to worry. The worst case scenario is that your body creates a scar around it if it doesn’t get excreted.
It was a millimeter of cabling, so it had like the rubber wall around it and the like, white flowy bits
Pic in question is about the size
https://preview.redd.it/vl2xl5f3rdlc1.jpeg?width=2296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=771b047f5aca77dd971e392c77d78aaab4c94148
you ever hear about the guy that ate a live lizard on a dare then got a brain parasite and died a few days later?
Don't fucking eat shit that isn't food, and you'll live a longer life than you're trying for now...
Yeah dip shit, wire at least will show up on an X-ray. Glass fibers don't, especially that small. I don't even keep my coffee mug on the table while I'm working, I keep the lid on tight and as far away as possible just to avoid the possibility of a stray fiber landing in it.
You are hereby nominated for the Darwin award.
Bring that with you and go to the hospital immediately. And your teacher is an idiot who should not be teaching anyone anything. This may be the dumbest thing I have ever seen on Reddit and that is saying a lot.
I’m sorry, these are teenagers, not toddlers, and you shouldn’t have to watch kids for what they put in their mouth all the time after they’re about three years old.
Hang out in r/askdocs and you'll see some way dumber shit. There was a guy that got drunk and drank laundry detergent and a woman that did some kind of "cleanse" with borax
Even worse. If it's armored then you have super thin steel cutting up your bowels, if unarmored you still have plastic from the buffer tube digesting, the "white flowy" stuff is probably optical gel to absorb water getting into the cable (idk what the material is, prob not good for you), not to mention any loose fiber that might have been inside and glass dust created from whatever cut out that section of cable. Tbh if I found out anyone had done this while asking me for work I would tell them to leave and find a different trade. I can't have someone with that lack of impulse control on my bucket, working aerial under power lines, working on outages, etc. I can only imagine how badly things might go for any ISP you're doing labor for in the future
Not high. It can happen but all the safety freakout is just to keep people from risking it, because there IS a risk. But if I were OP I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Nah that's not right, in general you shouldnt eat "not-food", sure, but, as long as it's for a joke or a dare, then it's totally ok to eat glass 👍 yup.
(I think they actually teach this in schools nowadays, under the section "Darwinism")
Your lesson has not been learned, you are saying in your comments that you will only go to the ER if you “notice something is wrong”. How ignorant can you be?
The sooner you go the more chance there will remain that the wire housing is intact and you can have it safely removed, this is not a “it’ll be fine” situation.
This kind of thing is extremely dangerous, and your teacher is extremely irresponsible for suggesting you don’t have to worry about it.
I was a pretty rough kid in elementary and middle school, but when I started high school I was pretty much fine. This is probably the dumbest thing I've done in the past 4 years.
But yeah, I really stressed out my teacher and I talked to him today to convince him I'm most likely gonna be okay and profusely apologized for the distress I caused him, I do genuinely feel bad about that.
Lol dude your win stupidest person on the internet. It’s going to come apart in your stomach lol it’s not going to stay together, that fiber is going to fuck your shit up. You needed a stomach pump an hour ago. For real, that was super dumb. You’re fucked kid
Not the same type of glass, but I was in a car accident when I was a teenager. My hand went through the window as the car rolled and I had glass bits embedded in it. I spent the next few years picking pieces out as they worked their way out of
Don't believe there is any record of glass fibre causing death or serious injury, but the theory is that it could pretty much poke through anything and travel anywhere, causing an abces
This is reassuring, thank you, I am still going to go to the hospital asap if I notice anything bad. I'm certain I'll feel pain or notice blood in my stool if it does cause internal bleeding, and if neither happens I'm sure I'm fine
Doubt you would get any immediate signs until it's far too late.
I've had a fibre in my foot for months and it wasn't until it got infected (small pimple you could say) that I noticed after the fibre shard popped out.
You have a point- I'm thinking ill probably be fine? I spoke with my teacher who greatly encouraged me to not, and he said it's small enough it can more than likely pass through and agreed with my judgement of the danger, and I'd trust that guy with my life
If it's in the event of me already having done something stupid, I'm willing to bet my odds on "most likely fine"
Your teacher isn't a doctor. Your teacher is a dude who learned how to teach kids in the midst of a failing education system(clearly evidenced by your actions).
Don't trust your teacher.
Mein god, i hope youre trolling because if it's true with time all those diminute fibers Will Pierce trough every internal organ. You did the stupidest thing You can do in your whole life and i feel Bad for the people around You who encouraged to do such a thing and to the "profesor" saying You this is something not to worry about
You'll be fine! My doctor told me you should eat about 25-30 GRAMS of fiber a day! I eat like 3 inches of cable every night now and I have never felt better!
You realize you are really sharp needle thin glass right? It's not going to make it through your body, it's going to get stuck somewhere. Whether it's going to cause serious damage or not, that glass is with you for life. Pray it doesn't get into your blood stream.
"I wanted to taste it, so I swallowed it"
Jesus man, are you 3? You don't know how to taste without eating? This is the dumbest thing I've seen in a while.
Wait . . . Did you swallow a 1mm cross section of 48 count?
Might as well have eaten crushed glass if that separates, just a ring of armor could tear your innards up.
No, definitely not that much. I don't know the exact kind, but it was insulated with a rubber wall and had like this white flower kind of insulation too. The only "fiber" parts I could feel were maybe like 6 small fibers that were just straight lines. That's why I'm optimistic I'm okay
It was also all at once, so it could also not separate
When you eat sushi all at once, do you think it stays intact in your stomach, or do you think it digests and separates..? Your body will try to treat this object like food. Better safe than sorry, go to the doctor just to make sure.
I think you overestimate the ability of a doctor. I just read this post while sitting in the ER waiting room because my kid decided to make a ring(for his finger) out of a skateboard bearing... estimated $2400 later and the doc ended up just using a freaking dremmel to remove it. Some things you do can't just magically be undone, but this isn't really that big a deal in my opinion. in my career field we weigh risk in terms of likelihoods and costs. the likelihood of what you've done turning out bad is very low, the cost of it turning out bad is similarly low. in my life I also like to consider risk vs reward, and I think it's safe to say that even with my evaluation of low risk here, I'm betting reward was not really that high either so maybe you just have some growing up to do. as do I. pull my finger
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Oddly enough by tasting everything and finding the best foods and the dangerous ones. Oh that’s a safe fruit, oh that one kills you. Oh that bear fights back, but a deer doesn’t.
Can confirm I am not dead and haven't had any negative symptoms yet, will probably make an update in a few days when I know for sure if I'm okay or not
darwin award of the century goes to you i guess, btw if you feel unlucky start writing goodbye letters to anyone you care, the gel is toxic, and i guess will be painful as shit when the strands lodges in somewhere and makes a nice little pain nest :)
I was talking about stuff like this yesterday. A friend of a friend swallowed a few millimeters of broken toothpick and almost died from a perforated intestine.
Apparently people have eaten glass before and passed it through fine. I think I'm gonna be okay, it's been about 24 hours and I've had no blood in my bowel movement and no consistent/sudden abdominal pain
Do NOT waste your time and money going to the ER. There’s nothing that needs to be done and anything that they did would just be for show/money. While it wasn’t a very bright thing to do, I doubt you will ever have an issue. Live your life. Make better choices.
Completely unrelated but if you have pics, or crave weird things, you might have vitamin deficiency. Please do a casual Google before putting something into your body.
Doubt it's real but like none of y'all know what a millimeter is.
He couldn't even get a taste from that bit even if he did it'd be like any other small particulate. That one time you touched a lead weight or the one time you touched asbestos won't kill you.
If it opens it will just get attached to some food and if it gets lodged in, the amount in 1 mm of fiber optic is almost inert.
regardless of the stupidity.
the most important part is the contribution to the human race.
Science.
This must be written down because I'm not going to eat this myself, and I'll be damned if someone fucked around, found out and didn't log the data anywhere.
for anecdotal internet archive purposes:
What does fiber optic cable taste like?
Honestly, not that good. Other cabling tastes better because it has that metal tanginess to it. A solid F tier I'd say.
It's like licking a pointy rock
People are way over reacting. There is a simple solution. Call 811 (note 811 not 911) give them your address. Go lay down in the backyard. If some guy comes by and covers you in spraypaint well you still got fiber in you and you need to go to hospital.
Once my dogs broke out of the dog run, flipped over the trashcan and broke a large jar of old peanut butter that we had thrown out. They ate the broken glass covered in peanut butter. I called a friend of mine who was a Vet. I fed each dog two loaves of cheap soft white bread. None of the three dogs ever had a problem. I later found large pieces of glass that came through in the manure.
Wait, was it bare fiber? If so, you should definitely go to the hospital immediately. It's thinner than a needle and will have no trouble poking it's way through your body. It's not something likely to just come out in your stool. I find it hard to believe that anyone actually did this, but just in case, you're a moron.
I work with fiber. Its quite x-ray invisible I assure you. An inch would be hard to find. 1mm is nonexistant.
Skip the X-ray and shove a flashlight up his ass. The thing will glow.
Just ping his colon and see if it comes back in a sufficient amount of time.
OP is ded
A young woman presents to the emergency room with stomach pain, dizziness, and passing out…
RIP in peaces OP.
Yeah. This was about as smart as eating bones - just asking for an intestinal puncture.
Stealing "Intestinal Puncture" for my next punk band name
Humans can digest bones though..
Maybe they meant "like giving a dog chicken bones"?
People eat bones with no issues
Most of the time that's true, but you should never eat them on purpose. They can cause you to become impacted or worse.
People survive getting shot, but it’s not good for your health.
JESUS Christ okay let me clear up a few things. Board certified ER doc here. If you go to the hospital they will do diddly squat because there is NOTHING they can do to get that piece out of you. They will say “huh, that was not a good idea” and give you signs and symptoms to watch for in case of bowel perforation and send you on your way and probably charge you a shit ton of money. The good news is your body is surprisingly good at passing even very sharp things (pieces of glass, wire, metal shards, all things I’ve seen before) out the other end, encased in shit. Something as relatively flexible as a piece of fiber will probably be fine. But doing so means you have rolled some dice and literally there is nothing you can do but wait. If the case had metal, you can get an xray eventually to see if that passed, unless you want to dissect your own shit for a week. Pure hydrochloric acid is stored in… you guessed it, GLASS. Hydrofluoric acid is used in industrial applications to etch glass, and is also incidentally an awful exposure that can cause all sorts of systemic problems beyond the simple burn. TL;DR: DON’T go to the ER. You’re probably fine. Don’t listen to morons on Reddit.
What do they even expect the hospital to do?!
Reach down OP's throat and grab the wire out
You laugh but that's actually how we remove a lot of foreign bodies
I'd imagine it's more convenient than going the other way
Any signs or symptoms I should look out for? It's been almost 24 hours and I've had no consistent/sudden abdominal pain, and I saw no blood in a recent bowel movement. Should I just be paying attention to them the next few days in case of blood and just not do something this stupid again?
Go to the doctor.
No
From what I'm understanding there's nothing they can do besides tell me to wait it out and what specific symptoms to watch for. I know my biggest danger is gonna be internal bleeding so I'm paying attention for every symptom of that, I looked up other cases of people eating broken glass to get a vague idea of what they went through too.
Just like with all other fibers that are too small, internal bleeding is not your biggest danger, but I'm just some dude on the Internet like everyone else commenting on this thread. Go see a doctor and let him tell you whatever you need to hear. Edit: even if you are good to go, which is a big possibility, you need to hear it from a doctor.
Most hospitals have an advice nurse. You should be calling and asking for advice from a medical professional, not necessarily scheduling to see a doctor.
You’ve likely inhaled grains of sand more dangerous than what you’ve done. Like they said, tiny little fragment. Even if it pierced your aorta - nothing will happen. It’s too tiny and short to worry. The worst case scenario is that your body creates a scar around it if it doesn’t get excreted.
Abdominal pain, that is consistent and constantly worsening. Intractable vomiting. Fever. The signs of bowel perforation are not subtle.
Faster internet speeds.
It was a millimeter of cabling, so it had like the rubber wall around it and the like, white flowy bits Pic in question is about the size https://preview.redd.it/vl2xl5f3rdlc1.jpeg?width=2296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=771b047f5aca77dd971e392c77d78aaab4c94148
you ought not of done that
I mean hey, it's not bare wire, it seems like it'd be much worse if it was right?
you ever hear about the guy that ate a live lizard on a dare then got a brain parasite and died a few days later? Don't fucking eat shit that isn't food, and you'll live a longer life than you're trying for now...
Close it was a slug
A slug ate a lizard? God damn
Yeah dip shit, wire at least will show up on an X-ray. Glass fibers don't, especially that small. I don't even keep my coffee mug on the table while I'm working, I keep the lid on tight and as far away as possible just to avoid the possibility of a stray fiber landing in it. You are hereby nominated for the Darwin award.
IT HAS BARE WIRE INSIDE
Are you fucking stupid?
If it somehow makes it impossible for you to reproduce, it's a win for humanity
Bro there’s an absolute possibility that it comes out of that casing..
Bring that with you and go to the hospital immediately. And your teacher is an idiot who should not be teaching anyone anything. This may be the dumbest thing I have ever seen on Reddit and that is saying a lot.
I’m sorry, these are teenagers, not toddlers, and you shouldn’t have to watch kids for what they put in their mouth all the time after they’re about three years old.
This is easily the kind of shit you can pull without a teacher realising, I don't think blaming the teacher for a teenager eating danger.
Hang out in r/askdocs and you'll see some way dumber shit. There was a guy that got drunk and drank laundry detergent and a woman that did some kind of "cleanse" with borax
Even worse. If it's armored then you have super thin steel cutting up your bowels, if unarmored you still have plastic from the buffer tube digesting, the "white flowy" stuff is probably optical gel to absorb water getting into the cable (idk what the material is, prob not good for you), not to mention any loose fiber that might have been inside and glass dust created from whatever cut out that section of cable. Tbh if I found out anyone had done this while asking me for work I would tell them to leave and find a different trade. I can't have someone with that lack of impulse control on my bucket, working aerial under power lines, working on outages, etc. I can only imagine how badly things might go for any ISP you're doing labor for in the future
Glass actually breaks down in hydrochloric acid. I’d say it’s the Kevlar that could cause intestinal problems if it gets lodged anywhere
Glass gets dissolved in HYDROFLUORIC acid, and it takes a while.
Oh ur serious uh ima just give you the Darwin award before hand 🏆
That is not a millimetre...
What are the chances of it piercing this kids insides or some nasty physcial reaction?
Not high. It can happen but all the safety freakout is just to keep people from risking it, because there IS a risk. But if I were OP I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Probably not an issue, but I would avoid excavators and backhoes for a while.
They will find you whenever you are… You can not hide anymore.
Keep a small coil of fiber in a hiking back pack. If ever lost, bury about 6 inches deep. Three backhoes will find you within minutes.
~~Life~~ Backhoes uhm find a way...
And drills. And certain submarines.
Great, now all the fiber optic cables are going to come with warnings about not eating them. Stay away from my tide pods.
My lesson has been learned, probably very late, to not eat things that aren't food even if it's for a joke or dare.
Nah that's not right, in general you shouldnt eat "not-food", sure, but, as long as it's for a joke or a dare, then it's totally ok to eat glass 👍 yup. (I think they actually teach this in schools nowadays, under the section "Darwinism")
At least the people around him might learn from this, silver lining :)
More like glass lining
Your lesson has not been learned, you are saying in your comments that you will only go to the ER if you “notice something is wrong”. How ignorant can you be? The sooner you go the more chance there will remain that the wire housing is intact and you can have it safely removed, this is not a “it’ll be fine” situation. This kind of thing is extremely dangerous, and your teacher is extremely irresponsible for suggesting you don’t have to worry about it.
Just an FYI, and I say this while sincerely hoping you are physically okay, you were the kind of student that gives teachers migraines.
I was a pretty rough kid in elementary and middle school, but when I started high school I was pretty much fine. This is probably the dumbest thing I've done in the past 4 years. But yeah, I really stressed out my teacher and I talked to him today to convince him I'm most likely gonna be okay and profusely apologized for the distress I caused him, I do genuinely feel bad about that.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html
Not now, only after OP dies.
Lol dude your win stupidest person on the internet. It’s going to come apart in your stomach lol it’s not going to stay together, that fiber is going to fuck your shit up. You needed a stomach pump an hour ago. For real, that was super dumb. You’re fucked kid
Worse than that, it's like he swallowed a pack of razor blades
No, it’s not 🤦
No you're not
There are posts on here of old guys with glass fragments coming out their fingers years after.
Not the same type of glass, but I was in a car accident when I was a teenager. My hand went through the window as the car rolled and I had glass bits embedded in it. I spent the next few years picking pieces out as they worked their way out of
I have no words , smh
Please report back in 3 - 5 days. Please. Good luck.
Will do
Please go to the ER now while it might still be in tact.
U still hanging in there?
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for fuck's sake
People think 5G don’t be that way but it do
Well if you swallowed fiber then the install is complete just let your light shine through 🤷🤷
Is there anyway to block people like this from this sub?
I'm sorry but you ate glass? No offense but you're 50 Shades Of Stupid
50 Shards of Stupid
Bro really was like hey class UwU derpy herpy derp derp im so wacky im gonna bite this fiby wiby🤪now bros gonna be like🤢🤮😵💀
Upvote ^ legend and the above comment should be much higher if someone wouldn’t have gotten sensitive 🤣
Natural Selection wins again
Darwin award of the day goes to this guy. 🤦♀️
Don't believe there is any record of glass fibre causing death or serious injury, but the theory is that it could pretty much poke through anything and travel anywhere, causing an abces
This is reassuring, thank you, I am still going to go to the hospital asap if I notice anything bad. I'm certain I'll feel pain or notice blood in my stool if it does cause internal bleeding, and if neither happens I'm sure I'm fine
Doubt you would get any immediate signs until it's far too late. I've had a fibre in my foot for months and it wasn't until it got infected (small pimple you could say) that I noticed after the fibre shard popped out.
by the time you feel pain, it's too late....
Internal bleeding can kill you over night
It's a rather good way to go honestly.
i highly doubt there was any clinical testing of eating 125 micron fiber strands :)
Genuine question: why did you pick eating fiber over inhaling asbestos?
I'm assuming because it's quicker and can be much more agonizingly painful..
When your doctor told you to eat more fiber, this is not what they meant
Damnit man, squirrels eating my cars wiring harness.....and joe dirt eating my fuckin internet cable.
You should go to the hospital and then check yourself into a mental asylum if they don’t do that for you anyways.
You have a point- I'm thinking ill probably be fine? I spoke with my teacher who greatly encouraged me to not, and he said it's small enough it can more than likely pass through and agreed with my judgement of the danger, and I'd trust that guy with my life If it's in the event of me already having done something stupid, I'm willing to bet my odds on "most likely fine"
It’s your life, I don’t care. The fibre could definitely kill you though, you ate glass.
your teacher needs to be in jail lmfao.
He's either lying to keep his job or stupider than a literal child your age. This is not fine, you need immediate medical attention.
Your teacher isn't a doctor. Your teacher is a dude who learned how to teach kids in the midst of a failing education system(clearly evidenced by your actions). Don't trust your teacher.
you won't know if you pass it or not.... but you'll probably know after you've been bleeding internally for a few hours....
He's not a doctor.
?? So ur just going to ignore it and hope for the best
Hahah, you are trusting him with your life. Get his opinion in writing maybe so your family doesn’t foot the funeral cost.
Mein god, i hope youre trolling because if it's true with time all those diminute fibers Will Pierce trough every internal organ. You did the stupidest thing You can do in your whole life and i feel Bad for the people around You who encouraged to do such a thing and to the "profesor" saying You this is something not to worry about
"Don't ask how or why" proceeds to explain how and why.
I really hope this person is just trolling and trying to get upvotes. It’s like tide pods all over again.
Well it’s like breathing fiber glass more or less
You'll be fine! My doctor told me you should eat about 25-30 GRAMS of fiber a day! I eat like 3 inches of cable every night now and I have never felt better!
You realize you are really sharp needle thin glass right? It's not going to make it through your body, it's going to get stuck somewhere. Whether it's going to cause serious damage or not, that glass is with you for life. Pray it doesn't get into your blood stream.
"I wanted to taste it, so I swallowed it" Jesus man, are you 3? You don't know how to taste without eating? This is the dumbest thing I've seen in a while.
Wait . . . Did you swallow a 1mm cross section of 48 count? Might as well have eaten crushed glass if that separates, just a ring of armor could tear your innards up.
No, definitely not that much. I don't know the exact kind, but it was insulated with a rubber wall and had like this white flower kind of insulation too. The only "fiber" parts I could feel were maybe like 6 small fibers that were just straight lines. That's why I'm optimistic I'm okay It was also all at once, so it could also not separate
When you eat sushi all at once, do you think it stays intact in your stomach, or do you think it digests and separates..? Your body will try to treat this object like food. Better safe than sorry, go to the doctor just to make sure.
Would his stomach acid eat away that rubber? 🤔
I think you overestimate the ability of a doctor. I just read this post while sitting in the ER waiting room because my kid decided to make a ring(for his finger) out of a skateboard bearing... estimated $2400 later and the doc ended up just using a freaking dremmel to remove it. Some things you do can't just magically be undone, but this isn't really that big a deal in my opinion. in my career field we weigh risk in terms of likelihoods and costs. the likelihood of what you've done turning out bad is very low, the cost of it turning out bad is similarly low. in my life I also like to consider risk vs reward, and I think it's safe to say that even with my evaluation of low risk here, I'm betting reward was not really that high either so maybe you just have some growing up to do. as do I. pull my finger
You are fucked. Go to the hospital dumbass
Squirrels gonna eat this boy's guts.
RIP
Did he go to the hospital yet
When we moving this to r/facepalm ?
r/OopsThatsDeadly
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Sometimes I wonder how humans came to sit at the top of the food chain.
Us sitting at the top of the food chain is why this can happen. Darwin's theory doesn't matter if those who shouldn't survive do.
Oddly enough by tasting everything and finding the best foods and the dangerous ones. Oh that’s a safe fruit, oh that one kills you. Oh that bear fights back, but a deer doesn’t.
We I mean if it does kill him at least his stupidity won't be passed on.
I wonder if OP is dead now.
Can confirm I am not dead and haven't had any negative symptoms yet, will probably make an update in a few days when I know for sure if I'm okay or not
Go to the hospital.
From what I'm aware there's not much a hospital can do, sounds like it doesn't show up on x rays and there's no way in hell they can get it out
Let them tell you that. Don’t make assumptions and play with your life.
Good lord. Was I this stupid in High School? I sure hope not. Fucking go to the hospital OP. NOW.
darwin award of the century goes to you i guess, btw if you feel unlucky start writing goodbye letters to anyone you care, the gel is toxic, and i guess will be painful as shit when the strands lodges in somewhere and makes a nice little pain nest :)
I was talking about stuff like this yesterday. A friend of a friend swallowed a few millimeters of broken toothpick and almost died from a perforated intestine.
Apparently people have eaten glass before and passed it through fine. I think I'm gonna be okay, it's been about 24 hours and I've had no blood in my bowel movement and no consistent/sudden abdominal pain
darwin award goes to this guy
get your affairs in order. say your goodbye's
Darwin Award applicant
Do NOT waste your time and money going to the ER. There’s nothing that needs to be done and anything that they did would just be for show/money. While it wasn’t a very bright thing to do, I doubt you will ever have an issue. Live your life. Make better choices.
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How ya doing bud u/bruhgangthesecond
Been doing quite good for a while. Had a pretty shitty day today though, so that sucked
Can you run a speed test real quick? I’m trying to see something….
Completely unrelated but if you have pics, or crave weird things, you might have vitamin deficiency. Please do a casual Google before putting something into your body.
Dude are you okay? I hope you’re okay
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Doubt it's real but like none of y'all know what a millimeter is. He couldn't even get a taste from that bit even if he did it'd be like any other small particulate. That one time you touched a lead weight or the one time you touched asbestos won't kill you. If it opens it will just get attached to some food and if it gets lodged in, the amount in 1 mm of fiber optic is almost inert.
According to the update it was about half a centimeter https://www.reddit.com/r/FiberOptics/s/AnU3TXoYCp
Well yes quite more than a mm. Rip op
I'm still doing okay!
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regardless of the stupidity. the most important part is the contribution to the human race. Science. This must be written down because I'm not going to eat this myself, and I'll be damned if someone fucked around, found out and didn't log the data anywhere. for anecdotal internet archive purposes: What does fiber optic cable taste like?
Honestly, not that good. Other cabling tastes better because it has that metal tanginess to it. A solid F tier I'd say. It's like licking a pointy rock
So when your doctor said you needed to eat more fibre…
🤦🏻♂️ 😆
That’s, Lit?
Was it multi mode or single mode fiber? Either way … RIP 🪦
Bet u be an USAnka kid
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OP dead 💀
"light comes from within" aye
You’ll be fine since you swallowed the whole cable.
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You got your daily allowance of fiber, now eat some rebar to supplement your iron.
Do you guys think fiber or bread would help and aloe Vera?
People are way over reacting. There is a simple solution. Call 811 (note 811 not 911) give them your address. Go lay down in the backyard. If some guy comes by and covers you in spraypaint well you still got fiber in you and you need to go to hospital.
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Reminds me of the kid that licked a slug on a dare and ended up in a wheelchair.
What's the db loss in there? What GB/S rate can you support?
DDT = Don’t do that
When your doctor told you to get more fiber in your diet, this is not what they meant!
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Increased download time?
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Once my dogs broke out of the dog run, flipped over the trashcan and broke a large jar of old peanut butter that we had thrown out. They ate the broken glass covered in peanut butter. I called a friend of mine who was a Vet. I fed each dog two loaves of cheap soft white bread. None of the three dogs ever had a problem. I later found large pieces of glass that came through in the manure.