Indian surgeons find 12 gold bars in man's stomach
By Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- When a team of Indian surgeons opened up the stomach of a patient complaining of abdominal pain, they had no idea they'd extract a fortune.

The patient, whose name was not released, was hiding 12 gold bars in his belly. He apparently smuggled them into India to evade import duty, police and doctors said Tuesday.

Each bar weighed 33 grams, said C.S. Ramachandran, who conducted the surgery at a hospital in New Delhi on April 9.

The 63-year-old patient, an Indian citizen, visited the hospital a day before with severe stomach pain and nausea.

"He told us he had accidentally swallowed the cap of a plastic bottle," Ramachandran said.

Full story: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/22/world/asia/india-stomach-surgery-gold/index.html


-- CNN 2014-04-23

I can guarantee you that if I were the surgeon, I would have told the guy we didn't find a think in there

Yeah, I would have picked up an old bottle cap off the floor and told him we'd removed it, while handing him a bill for the surgery !

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Trash inside plane toilet was most common news but never hear swallow it, it's first time.

Maybe it was the winning bottle cap in a soft drink gold bar giveaway promotion.

i bet hes nicknamed "goose" expecting him to lay golden eggs

Can you imagine...the pain involved...had he tried to pass his shxt covered gold bars...

Can you imagine...the pain involved...had he tried to pass his shxt covered gold bars...

We don't know how they got in there, so maybe they went in through the backdoor.

Can you imagine...the pain involved...had he tried to pass his shxt covered gold bars...

We don't know how they got in there, so maybe they went in through the backdoor.

Either way, if he managed to fire them with out with some pressure while taking a dump in a porcelain toilet, he might have got a bit of a surprise.

It would never have come down to this if Indians had bum guns.

It brings a complete new meaning to 'golden showers'

Quite clear that his boyfriend was a leprechaun

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Can you imagine...the pain involved...had he tried to pass his shxt covered gold bars...

The bars were 33 grams (1 oz) not 1 kg Still at $1250 a pop I hope he was planning to poo into a bag. There is more stupidity in the Universe than Hydrogen, and it has a longer shelf life.

Wow; the goose that lays the golden eggs!

Dude needs a change in diet. Too much roughage.

So would he need to pay import duty now?

He was making soup and the recipe called for 12 bullion cubes.