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St. Louis Cardinals' Chris Carpenter Gives Removed Rib to Daughter

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:10:03 +0000

It's a little strange to lose a body part. But that's what happened to St. Louis Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter when surgeons removed one of his ribs in an attempt to alleviate pressure that was running up his pitching arm.

After the surgery Carpenter was presented with the bone, and he knew just what to do with it:

Plastic Fork Removed From Man's Stomach After 10 Years

Don Deane — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:04:53 +0000

In the U.K., a 40-year-old man recently had a plastic fork surgically removed from his stomach after swallowing it. That’s bad enough, but when you consider that he ingested the item a decade ago, the story reaches all new levels of weird. We’ll never look at cutlery the same way again.