We love stuff about weird diseases and ailments. We especially love to see things that shock us, disgust us, or otherwise entertain us. Lucky for us, there is the Internet – a source of grossly entertaining stuff. What follows is a series of x-rays taken of people who are either amazingly stupid, or incredibly unlucky. Sometimes both.
WHOA! OK. We’ll start on the most disturbing one. No, this isn’t a recreational Coke-bottle-insertion gone horribly wrong – this guy was actually assaulted with the Coke bottle. Two guys stole his buffaloes, and then stuck it to him. Literally. Yeah. I said it.
The setting? The Chinese Cultural Revolution. 1967. A time of political and social unrest. So turbulent were the times, in fact, that Hou Guoying managed to get SHOT IN THE FACE and refrain from seeking medical treatment. What, are you too busy to get the bullet REMOVED FROM YOUR FACE? She had a terrible headache come 1978, when an X-ray showed this bullet lodged in her face. She chose not to have it removed, thinking that she’d lived that long with it, and that the crappy medical facilities would surely botch it up. Come 2010 she finally got the bullet removed. I don’t know about you, but I’d have that thing bronzed or something.
First off, this doesn’t look like a real X-ray to me, but news reports call it that, so it makes it into the list. Secondly, even if it isn’t an X-ray, DAMN! How does that happen? Well, first you go to a nightclub. Then you insult somebody’s brother. Then that person whose brother you insulted? He throws a metal chair at your face. In fact, he impales your face on the chair leg, so that it (the chair leg) goes in through your left eye socket and ends up lodged in your throat. THROUGH YOUR EYE SOCKET! The guy this happened to, Shafique el-Fahkri, has no hard feelings. Pain meds probably have a lot to do with that attitude.
Chalk this one up to stupidity. Simon Hooper wanted to propose to his lady friend. Unable to shell out any money on an engagement ring he swallowed it while the jeweler looked the other way. Unconvinced that the ring had vanished into thin air, the jeweler called the police, who detained Hooper and waiting three days for the ring to reappear. Hopper spent 12 more weeks in jail, the ring was returned to the jeweler, and all was well. Except for, nobody wanted to buy a ring that had passed through someone’s whole digestive tract. Ew. Gives new meaning to the term “crappy jewelry.”
Uh. Has anyone seen my keys? I found ‘em! They’re in the baby’s face! Oh calm down. The baby was fine.
This guy WASN’T fine. He was, in fact, dead. He was shot with thirty nails, tied up with electrical wires and extension cords, rolled in an area rug, and bundled up. Toss him into an icy river, and we may as well call him Rasputin. Right? Right? Oh forget it.
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29 Comments
these images are really shocking, i don't think i can go to the doctor to get an x-ray after seeing this…!
That metal chair leg one is a CT scan, not an X-Ray.
THAT makes sense. Thank you!
ct scan is x-ray… only sequential compositing including computer program for 3d imaging
I didn't know nail guns had a full automatic option.
Calls the "Mona Lisa" nail gun video into question, does it not? Thanks for reading, Arina!
If you call stuff "shockingly bizarre", you should be able to back up your claims with sources. X-rays like these are faked every single day on 4Chan and even if even some of these are real, I am inclined to dismiss all of them to be safe.
Thanks, Jackson, for your honest comment. In my defense, I'd be inclined to say that the pictures are "shockingly bizarre" whether they are real or not – because it's pretty weird if someone fakes something like that. What a world, eh?
Thats the last thing I needed to see before going to bed. This person is probably still arsin about
All I can say is ouch.
The first one is questionable. I am a chiropractor, and it looks like an edited image of a coke bottle, it would not look like that on an x-ray. good try though. the edges are too smooth and consistent, If I guessed, x-ray would be opaque, going straight through glass, leaving nothing on the film to see.
Thanks, Adam, for your professional input. Thanks for reading!
Actually, bottles DO appear this way on x-rays. I've worked in the ER and seen actual x-rays very similar to this one.
I'm guessing you weren't reading the x-ray, just looking at them? The density of the bottle remains the same throughout the image, no matter that is in front, or behind it. the bottle causes no scatter, and there is no line that denotes the thickness of the glass. Is this a glass bottle, because it looks like a screw top bottle to me. you would not see plastic like this on film. look at this more convincing film: http://www.berare.com/data/200909/xray-bottle.jpg
The hip on the left of the image is an implant.
I was going to say the same thing. Im an xray tech, and that coke bottle one is DEFINITELY fake.
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I've got an X-ray image somewhere of when I broke my thumb. If I can find it, I'll send it to you, as it would go well here. The tip was literally hanging off of it and pointed backwards. The nurses at the hospital were all excited – bringing people to look at the injury. They'd never seen anything like it before.
How did they get those things into body?
that dude who got the chair in the face is a bamf to survive that. all of em are.
oh no
Head full of nails, very scary.
first is sure fake… left femur is broken….
The metal leg in the face image is neither an X ray nor a CT scan- it is a 3-d rendered model from a computer program, possibly from an Image-guided surgery device which builds the model with digital images and allows the surgeon to navigate 3 dimensionally to avoid iatrogenic injury
first one is not a fake based on a fractured left femur. If you look closely, the other leg has a prosthetic hip. What you are seeing is the degeneration of the joint which may have been why they had a hip replacement on the other side
I didn’t expect to see some of those… but very good job
I need an xray to let someone know there’s a bottle up my ass, also fake.
Actually, based on the width of the hips and the angle of the pubic arch, I’d say that the first picture is actually that of a woman.
LOL does that mean a person stuck a bottle in her private spot?