Woman swallows cellphone playing "keep-away" from boyfriend

One of the nice things about our little site is that we sometimes get to bring you helpful tips along with the usual lineup of snarky posts. Today's lesson involves the proper way to keep someone from using/looking at your cellphone for either saving precious minutes or keeping those steamy convos with/pics of your mistress a secret. A bit of common sense would indicate that either removing the battery, the SIM card, or smashing the phone to bits are all good ways to accomplish this task, yet a Missouri woman felt that the best way of making her mobile inaccessible to her boyfriend was to put the whole damn thing in her mouth and swallow it. Not surprisingly, the cell got caught in her throat (this is why we buy RAZRs, people!) and she had to be rushed to the emergency room, where her condition is not currently known. We are looking forward to someone eventually lodging a phone in their nasal and ear cavities, so we'll have witnessed cells stuck in each and every human orifice during our lifetime.

[Thanks, Brian]

Update: No one's got the straight skinny quite yet, but apparently the cell-swallowing might not have been voluntary after all. Blue Springs police are actually now citing the incident as assault, and the woman's boyfriend is suspected of involvement. Via the Wireless Weblog.

[Rocket Punch @ Dec 23rd 2005 4:18PM]

The bright side of the story is, she likes to swallow.

[Daniel @ Dec 23rd 2005 4:20PM]

Hmm, well I suppose we can expect another one of those absurd warnings in cellphone user guides: "WARNING- Do not swallow."



Who wants to bet that this turns into a frivolous lawsuit and the woman ends up with 5 million bucks?

[AceMilo @ Dec 23rd 2005 4:30PM]

And the darwin award of 2005 goes to...

[bannas @ Dec 23rd 2005 4:53PM]

yeah in KC

there are some crazy people

i live there



is there anything as a adult stupidity lock?

really

something that keeps grown adults from being excessivly stupid?



this gets my vote as the winner of the Dawin awards

[bradtwitty @ Dec 23rd 2005 4:58PM]

Rocket Punch,



Perfect comment.

[Alex Brooks @ Dec 23rd 2005 5:07PM]

Engadget, you missed an orifice, you know the one I mean....

[Jonny @ Dec 23rd 2005 5:08PM]

So...did the cell survive? If not then what do you say to the sales rep at the verizon store... is it water damage? lol



also..the episode of Family Guy was on last night where peter swallows his cell phone...so this is very ironic.

[Jason @ Dec 23rd 2005 5:10PM]

How is this engadget news?

[mckenzie @ Dec 23rd 2005 5:19PM]

uhh... whats the picture of?

[exdua @ Dec 23rd 2005 5:20PM]

Would be fun if someone rang her while the phone was in her

[Sy @ Dec 23rd 2005 5:32PM]

Lets hope she did not set the phone on vibrate ...oh wait ...

[TheWakeUpCall @ Dec 23rd 2005 5:35PM]

LMAO!!! I'm guessing she didn't chew.

[Hamson @ Dec 23rd 2005 5:35PM]

Why do people always ask, "Why is this news?", or state, "This isn't news"? It is a BLOG people. Personally, I think it would get a little bland if they just talked about new cell phones and digital cameras from Korea that I would be lucky to see within the next decade.

[Dissent @ Dec 23rd 2005 5:36PM]

Rumor has it this woman is a spitting image of Peter.

[weblizard @ Dec 23rd 2005 5:52PM]

In the photo is _Dasypeltis sp._, the African Egg-eating snake. It has a specialized internal spinal process that pierces the egg, so the contents can be swallowed, and the shell regurgitated.



I guess whe would need a structure to pop the storage card, so she could hork up the rest of the phone...



Adds a new perspective to "can you hear me now?"

[dirtyman @ Dec 23rd 2005 6:07PM]

OK..it seems that phone manufacturers need to think about their taste when they release new phones like orange flavored RAZR...

[Morgan @ Dec 23rd 2005 6:09PM]

How many orifaces has endgadget seen cell phones stuck in? they said all they have left are nose and ear..........

[evangeline @ Dec 23rd 2005 6:19PM]

Hey maybe the phone was one of those 1980's gigantic cells, that would have been fun to watch! >.> Or to watch get removed of course ^.^

[Johnny Huh @ Dec 23rd 2005 6:33PM]

With cells getting smaller and smaller, its only a matter of time before someone does succeed in getting one all the way down.



And yes, she probably will get a million dollar payout and an ABC after-school special based on her gripping story of electronic gluttony.

[ScottytheMenace @ Dec 23rd 2005 7:10PM]

This smacks of an urban myth. I cannot believe this an an actual event.

[Jason @ Dec 23rd 2005 7:30PM]

#13- who goes to engadget for quirkies? fark will do.

[Doc @ Dec 23rd 2005 7:53PM]

I wonder if she goes "Hello Moto..." instead of "Ahh..." now...

[Chris @ Dec 23rd 2005 8:26PM]

to #2,



yeah, it will be like that wendy's thing where that women blamed that she found a thumb in her beans, and we now find out it she wants it for money.



if this gal does do it, i wonder how she would explain it. "The phone was so small that i thought it was...*insert whatever she thought it was"...it ain't going to happen for her.

[Navstar @ Dec 23rd 2005 10:54PM]

This sounds like total BS. How does one fit a cell phone in one's mouth -- not to mention swallowing it?



Even the smallest Firefly or mini phone would be far too large to put in your mouth. Unless she was a 10' tall Amazon or something.



Total BS!

[Travis @ Dec 23rd 2005 11:06PM]

Might I remind you that in order to qualify for the Darwin awards, you must somehow remove yourself from the gene pool. So unless swallowing the phone kills her, or makes her unable to reproduce, there's nothing to vote for.



It was incredibly stupid, but not Darwin award worthy.

[Badtz Maru� @ Dec 23rd 2005 11:23PM]

That's nothing, check out this news from April 2005...



Phone thief's intimate hiding place

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1356419.html?menu=



Romanian police caught a female mobile phone thief by dialling the stolen phone - and hearing her knickers start ringing.



Police in Pitesti, Southern Romania, stopped Ruxandra Gardian, 34, and her female friend after an eyewitness reported they had stolen the phone when a customer in a busy shop put it down for an instant.



After a search of both women failed to find the phone, police wanted to let them go, but the eyewitness insisted the pair had taken it, and suggested they call the number.



The officers then heard a muffled ringing coming from under the woman's dress.



They took the pair to the local police station where a strip search by female police officers revealed that Gardian had hidden the NEC mobile phone in her vagina, local daily Ziarul reported.



Police officer Aurel Popescu said: "I've seen a lot in my time as a policeman but never anything like this."



He added that the owner of the phone had refused to take it back, claiming it was damaged goods, and had filed a claim with his insurance company for a new device.

[Austin @ Dec 24th 2005 12:37AM]

ahh, now here's something that would happen only in my hometown. i often go to the library here in kansas city just to watch all the computer-illeterate people yell at each other because they can't find the period on the keyboard.

[jhydo @ Dec 24th 2005 2:42AM]

Yeah,it shows what one can do if only one applies one' "MIND" to IT....

[MavEryck @ Dec 24th 2005 4:23AM]

And to think...all this time...I've been using the "lock" feature to keep prying eyes out!



I could have just swallowed it. However, when it came out the other end...I would have been accused of talking Sh*t!



Damn, I crack myself up!



Thank Bobisa!

[Ramnath @ Dec 24th 2005 5:05AM]

damn....

Which phone did she swallow..???

[Cody @ Dec 24th 2005 1:03PM]

Hopefully it wasnt on vibrate, i cant imagine what it would feel like if someone called her to ask if she was ok.

[Landon @ Dec 24th 2005 1:16PM]

What's the name of this idiot?

[Tony @ Dec 24th 2005 2:09PM]

Hah, that image fits this post so perfectly! I love it!

[dnl2ba @ Dec 24th 2005 3:42PM]

She should swallow a first-generation Archos to catch the cell phone, then a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet to catch the Archos, etc.

[Conn @ Dec 24th 2005 5:44PM]

Reminds me of that one Family Guy episode.

[JJ @ Dec 24th 2005 8:08PM]

OWNED! lol she is one of the stupidest people in ameria seriously, all of the cell phone companies are going to have to put a new sticker on their cell phones "do not swallow"

[Billy @ Dec 24th 2005 9:49PM]

Well to tell the truth I'm not suprised. This world is becoming more and more crazy. Next thing you know there will be an article in Time magazine " Is Kong a Communist?".

[Diane @ Dec 26th 2005 2:28PM]

The story that was reported in the paper wasn't the truth. The truth is just now starting to come out. The girl had nothing to do with wanting to swallow the phone. Her boyfriend beat the crap out of her and shoved the phone down her throat. She's in the hospital recovering from surgery after having to have the phone removed so she wouldn't die. It was abuse from the boyfriend, but of course, the girl couldn't tell her side of the story.

[truth @ Dec 27th 2005 10:27AM]

This woman was the victim of assault, she did not swallow the phone intentionally. I'm sure this takes the humor out of this story, huh?



http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/13487303.htm

[memo @ Dec 27th 2005 4:29PM]

All i got to say is that one of my personal friends, is one of the woman closest friends, and to let you know i think you have to find and get the story right before publicying this and had some celebrities make fun of her on national tv, after she was almost beat to dead by her boyfriend who then shove the phone down her throat after she was unconcious. I beleive that we should be making fun of the blue springs police department for all their negligence.

[Diane @ Dec 27th 2005 11:23PM]

Another update:



http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/5680224/detail.html



I feel so sorry for her, not only for what the ex-boyfriend did to her, but for all the crap that has now spread nationwide.

[Matthew @ Dec 28th 2005 10:18AM]

I live in KC. What actually happened is the girl has been harassed and stocked for months by her ex-boyfriend and he kidnapped her and shoved the phone down her throat. I understand she was hurt pretty badly and the guy is now wanted by local police.

[dwhite @ Dec 28th 2005 5:21PM]

this might be funnier, except police didn't investigate far enough -- just took the hoodlum boyfriend's word for it. Truth comes out that he was the one who shoved it down her throat & she almost died!