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Apachee, 10, swallowed a fork
That is probably the best fork-related photo caption ever.
posted by cmonkey at 4:41 AM on August 14, 2008
That is probably the best fork-related photo caption ever.
posted by cmonkey at 4:41 AM on August 14, 2008
This is one of the strangest news stories I've seen in some time. I have no idea how that dog got a fork wedged into its chest cavity, or why.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 4:42 AM on August 14, 2008 [4 favorites]
posted by soundofsuburbia at 4:42 AM on August 14, 2008 [4 favorites]
Seriously, give that editor a Pulitzer or a Murrow or a whateverthehell.
posted by cmonkey at 4:42 AM on August 14, 2008
posted by cmonkey at 4:42 AM on August 14, 2008
I bet vets see this all the tine.
posted by DU at 4:51 AM on August 14, 2008 [5 favorites]
posted by DU at 4:51 AM on August 14, 2008 [5 favorites]
I think there is even an entire website devoted to x-ray pictures of stuff inside people.
posted by stbalbach at 5:00 AM on August 14, 2008
posted by stbalbach at 5:00 AM on August 14, 2008
Man, I remember seeing Forkdog at the Meadowlands back in 92, when they opened for Soundgarden. This is before they sold out and changed to Top 40 dancehall. They broke my heart.
posted by jbickers at 5:00 AM on August 14, 2008 [3 favorites]
posted by jbickers at 5:00 AM on August 14, 2008 [3 favorites]
I bet vets see this all the tine.
Forkin' A, man!
This should not be surprising to anyone who has owned a dog; mine once ate ZZ Top's Fandango CD.
posted by TedW at 5:00 AM on August 14, 2008
Forkin' A, man!
This should not be surprising to anyone who has owned a dog; mine once ate ZZ Top's Fandango CD.
posted by TedW at 5:00 AM on August 14, 2008
Ah, that's nothing. I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly...
posted by billysumday at 5:11 AM on August 14, 2008 [3 favorites]
posted by billysumday at 5:11 AM on August 14, 2008 [3 favorites]
mine once ate ZZ Top's Fandango CD
What a nasty dog (and funky kings).
posted by soundofsuburbia at 5:12 AM on August 14, 2008 [2 favorites]
What a nasty dog (and funky kings).
posted by soundofsuburbia at 5:12 AM on August 14, 2008 [2 favorites]
Did the reporter just use the phrase "chest cavity" without understanding what that really means or is there alot of information missing here? There's a big difference between swallowing the fork and getting it into the chest cavity. The dog can swallow the fork and it can get lodged in the esophagus, in the chest area. But to get into the chest cavity it has to get completely out of the esophagus.
posted by winston at 5:15 AM on August 14, 2008
posted by winston at 5:15 AM on August 14, 2008
I think there is even an entire website devoted to x-ray pictures of stuff inside people.
Well, people inside stuff. Eventually.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 5:24 AM on August 14, 2008
Well, people inside stuff. Eventually.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 5:24 AM on August 14, 2008
This post is just like the xray. You wonder how the hell it got in here.
posted by srboisvert at 5:24 AM on August 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by srboisvert at 5:24 AM on August 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
entire website devoted to x-ray pictures of stuff inside people.
Well I guess this works, sort of raw and unfiltered. Could make a possible blogging topic, "foreign body of the day."
posted by stbalbach at 5:34 AM on August 14, 2008
Well I guess this works, sort of raw and unfiltered. Could make a possible blogging topic, "foreign body of the day."
posted by stbalbach at 5:34 AM on August 14, 2008
I see a blockbuster movie coming out of this -- maybe they'll call it "You, Me, and Apache Dupree"
posted by AwkwardPause at 5:36 AM on August 14, 2008
posted by AwkwardPause at 5:36 AM on August 14, 2008
This is one of the strangest news stories I've seen in some time. I have no idea how that dog got a fork wedged into its chest cavity, or why
"Aw, Pa.... Stick a fork in it!"
"OK"
"YELPYELPYELPYELPYELPYELPYELPYELP!!!!!"
posted by Debaser626 at 5:58 AM on August 14, 2008
"Aw, Pa.... Stick a fork in it!"
"OK"
"YELPYELPYELPYELPYELPYELPYELPYELP!!!!!"
posted by Debaser626 at 5:58 AM on August 14, 2008
I bet vets see this all the tine.
Yeah, one of the professional magazines even runs an annual contest. This year a snake that swallowed the owner's pet rabbit (and the electric blanket it was sleeping on) came in first, and won the vet that submitted it a DSLR; while a dog that ate a stuffed dog took the silver, where there is no prize.
posted by Rock Steady at 6:01 AM on August 14, 2008 [3 favorites]
Yeah, one of the professional magazines even runs an annual contest. This year a snake that swallowed the owner's pet rabbit (and the electric blanket it was sleeping on) came in first, and won the vet that submitted it a DSLR; while a dog that ate a stuffed dog took the silver, where there is no prize.
posted by Rock Steady at 6:01 AM on August 14, 2008 [3 favorites]
mine once ate ZZ Top's Fandango CD
Good taste in music. However, poor choice of format. My dog ate a cassette one time and I can't tell you how, um, interesting it was to pull that stinky tape ribbon out of his butt, hand over hand. It just keeps coming and coming. Worse, the dog appeared to enjoy it.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 6:05 AM on August 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
Good taste in music. However, poor choice of format. My dog ate a cassette one time and I can't tell you how, um, interesting it was to pull that stinky tape ribbon out of his butt, hand over hand. It just keeps coming and coming. Worse, the dog appeared to enjoy it.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 6:05 AM on August 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
I don't know what "SLLNF" means, but we really need a warning that says, "You might not want to open this link until your first seven morning coffees have kicked in... and maybe not even then."
Would've been useful for that weightlifter-elbow-thing yesterday, too.
posted by Mike D at 6:06 AM on August 14, 2008
Would've been useful for that weightlifter-elbow-thing yesterday, too.
posted by Mike D at 6:06 AM on August 14, 2008
That thing had to have gone in butt-end first, otherwise the pooch would've presented with symptoms sooner. Still. A long piece of metal?! WTF?
posted by yoga at 6:08 AM on August 14, 2008
posted by yoga at 6:08 AM on August 14, 2008
This is one of the strangest news stories I've seen in some time. I have no idea how that dog got a fork wedged into its chest cavity, or why.
Does anybody read the posts down here?
posted by cimbrog at 6:10 AM on August 14, 2008
Does anybody read the posts down here?
posted by cimbrog at 6:10 AM on August 14, 2008
I have no idea how that dog got a fork wedged into its chest cavity, or why.
Easy. Dog has access to a fork with food still on it. Dog thinks, "Mmmm. Fuud." Dog licks and licks and chews on fork until.... "Uh oh."
Happens more than you think.
posted by jeanmari at 6:13 AM on August 14, 2008
Easy. Dog has access to a fork with food still on it. Dog thinks, "Mmmm. Fuud." Dog licks and licks and chews on fork until.... "Uh oh."
Happens more than you think.
posted by jeanmari at 6:13 AM on August 14, 2008
Brilliant. Any further context would completely ruin this.
posted by CaseyB at 6:16 AM on August 14, 2008
posted by CaseyB at 6:16 AM on August 14, 2008
stupidsexyFlanders: y-y-you..you...you.... *frantically presses mental image reset button to no avail*
posted by Debaser626 at 6:27 AM on August 14, 2008
posted by Debaser626 at 6:27 AM on August 14, 2008
mine once ate ZZ Top's Fandango CD
What a nasty dog (and funky kings).
You beat me to it!
posted by Liquidwolf at 7:13 AM on August 14, 2008
What a nasty dog (and funky kings).
You beat me to it!
posted by Liquidwolf at 7:13 AM on August 14, 2008
OK, where is this user? Anyone seen her lately? I am very suspicious.
posted by netbros at 7:22 AM on August 14, 2008
posted by netbros at 7:22 AM on August 14, 2008
a dog that ate a stuffed dog
That really is the best X-ray picture I've seen.
It's so meta!
posted by painquale at 7:38 AM on August 14, 2008
That really is the best X-ray picture I've seen.
It's so meta!
posted by painquale at 7:38 AM on August 14, 2008
I bet vets see this all the tine.
Max Fischer: Were you in the shitzu?
Herman Blume: Yeah, I was in the shitzu.
posted by joe lisboa at 7:39 AM on August 14, 2008
Max Fischer: Were you in the shitzu?
Herman Blume: Yeah, I was in the shitzu.
posted by joe lisboa at 7:39 AM on August 14, 2008
One of my favorite things I ever heard at the vet's office was from a little old lady with an enormous malamute or possibly a malamute-grizzly mix. Big old dog. Anyway, the conversation went like this:
--So what's the matter with him?
--I think his tummy's a little upset.
--How's his appetite? Is he eating OK?
--Well... yesterday he ate a couple of copperheads. But nothing since then.
posted by Wolfdog at 7:43 AM on August 14, 2008 [11 favorites]
--So what's the matter with him?
--I think his tummy's a little upset.
--How's his appetite? Is he eating OK?
--Well... yesterday he ate a couple of copperheads. But nothing since then.
posted by Wolfdog at 7:43 AM on August 14, 2008 [11 favorites]
entire website devoted to x-ray pictures of stuff inside people.
I think you're referring the classic site "Rectal Foreign Bodies" which is still there, on The Well, still counting (presumably) hits since 1997.
posted by dammitjim at 7:45 AM on August 14, 2008
I think you're referring the classic site "Rectal Foreign Bodies" which is still there, on The Well, still counting (presumably) hits since 1997.
posted by dammitjim at 7:45 AM on August 14, 2008
This is a fantastic post.
posted by Citizen Premier at 8:01 AM on August 14, 2008
posted by Citizen Premier at 8:01 AM on August 14, 2008
My wife is a vet, and yes, they pick up odd foreign bodies on x-ray and in endoscopes all the time. A fork is pretty garden-variety stuff, frankly.
One of her colleagues put an endoscope (the long, flexible tube with a camera at the end) all the way down a dog's esophagus and into the stomach to find an Ernie doll grinning back at her.
posted by argybarg at 8:24 AM on August 14, 2008
One of her colleagues put an endoscope (the long, flexible tube with a camera at the end) all the way down a dog's esophagus and into the stomach to find an Ernie doll grinning back at her.
posted by argybarg at 8:24 AM on August 14, 2008
This wins my "so boring and unexciting it somehow becomes slightly interesting" post award.
posted by ORthey at 8:40 AM on August 14, 2008
posted by ORthey at 8:40 AM on August 14, 2008
That dog, I might add, had exactly the sort of unimpressed-with-the-world look that northern breeds in general tend to specialize in, but particularly those who are well aware that they could, in a moment of boredom or even a mere moment of carelessness, devour their owners. This knowledge seems to inevitably foster a notably lofty, cool and detached attitude.
The same attitude can be observed, perhaps more rarely, in people; certain southern matriarchs, for example, carry it as casually as they might a parasol. You make no mistake when you are in the presence of it, though, and despite the apparent cool of it you don't make any sudden moves, either.
posted by Wolfdog at 9:48 AM on August 14, 2008 [3 favorites]
The same attitude can be observed, perhaps more rarely, in people; certain southern matriarchs, for example, carry it as casually as they might a parasol. You make no mistake when you are in the presence of it, though, and despite the apparent cool of it you don't make any sudden moves, either.
posted by Wolfdog at 9:48 AM on August 14, 2008 [3 favorites]
At least he was trying to use utensils.
It's better than that - if you orient the X-Ray head first you see he has it on the right side too!
posted by CynicalKnight at 11:57 AM on August 14, 2008
It's better than that - if you orient the X-Ray head first you see he has it on the right side too!
posted by CynicalKnight at 11:57 AM on August 14, 2008
googling for "x-ray foreign bodies" is a great reminder that anything you might want to use as a butt dildo MUST have a flared base.
posted by Jon_Evil at 1:31 PM on August 14, 2008
posted by Jon_Evil at 1:31 PM on August 14, 2008
Probably trying to get the taste of its own anus out of its mouth.
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:19 PM on August 14, 2008
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:19 PM on August 14, 2008
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