From candy canes to hand grenades, these hilariously weird and funny X-ray images prove that people will stick anything up any orifice.
If you want to see images of the human body pushed to its breaking point and beyond, become a radiologist. After all, every harrowing ER trip involving bizarre objects that find their way into the body is documented in X-rays. And naturally, some of those images are pretty freaky.
Here’s a collection of the most supremely weird and funny X-ray images you’re ever likely to see:
52-year-old Margaret Daalman, whose x ray is above, swallowed 78 pieces of cutlery.The Daily Mail
This knife lodged in a skull was the result of a 2008 robbery gone wrong.Imgur
This grenade is live, reportedly swallowed by a terrorist who realized too late that the grenade couldn’t be detonated from inside a stomach. The Sun
A live artillery shell inside someone’s rectum. Oddee
A construction worker got this x-ray after complaining about a toothache. Turns out he shot a nail into his face.The Sun
No surgery needed here: These nails were all passed without perforating internal organs.Imgur
Learn a lesson from this New Mexico couple: Don’t hide an engagement ring in a milkshake.The Sun
This x-ray shows the stomach of a 22-year-old Chinese student who accidentally swallowed a spoon when a friend startled her.The Telegraph
A man was stabbed in the head with scissors during a bar fight. He recovered.The Telegraph
This pair of nine-by-four cm scissors slid down this man’s esophagus when he tried to use them as a toothpick.Smashing Lists
Sometimes the surgeons don’t remember all of their instruments.Imgur
These fire tongs were thrown through the back of a man’s head and stuck out his forehead.The Telegraph
Buzz Lightyear explores the true last frontier. Don’t expect to see this in Toy Story 4.Blogspot
A candy cane somehow makes its way up this person's derriere.College Humor
Here’s one way to hold an iPod.Daily Caller
An analog cassette tape, from someone who presumably hasn’t upgraded to iPods.Imgur
These salad tongs ended up just as stuck as the vibrator they were used to fish out.Oddee
We doubt there's much cellphone service here.Daily Cognition
An Eiffel Tower keychain inexplicably winds up embedded in this person’s hand.Daily Caller
Swallowing your teeth is easier when you've got a set of dentures.Guff
This patient swallowed a toothbrush on a dare.The Telegraph
Don’t leave forks lying on the floor. This could happen to you.
A decapitated Barbie makes a home in this person's body. College Humor
Is this the key to someone’s heart? College Humor
This lightbulb may have reminded the medical workers of the Operation board game.Imgur
This nose hair trimmer wasn’t being used for its original purpose.Imgur
A safety pin lines this poor individual's esophagus.The Telegraph
This X-Acto knife was wrapped in toilet paper. Imgur
This bug spray can probably won’t be useful in there.Radiopaedia
This x-ray reveals a whisk that somehow found its way into a rectum.Blogspot
SpongeBob SquarePants didn’t complete his trip to Bikini Bottom and instead wound up lodged upside down in the throat of a 16-month-old child.Radiopaedia
Ater enjoying these funny X-ray images, see some mind-blowing X-ray art and check out what it looks like when someone does yoga as seen by an X-ray machine.
