that is a pretty messed up toy when you think about it, i remember those.
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Not a unique situation, this. It also happened a few years before at the Bambi motel in Gainesville, Florida.
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Here’s something else not to do: reheat a hard boiled egg in the microwave, then bite into it.
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Reminds me of an O’Riley book I read back in the 90s… maybe one of he Perl ones? Anyway, up at the front it had something like this:
I wonder what happens when I connect these things together?
—The last words of too many people.
I can remember the frailty of being five year old, and sticking one of my mother’s bobby pins into the electrical socket: one leg into each hole. It shorted, sparked and popped out with a loud crack. My mother came running in, asking what had happened. I felt stupid, and was very lucky.
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Ah yes, heating things up with a blowtorch. The regular expressions of physical things.
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These comments leave a bad taste in my mouth.
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Suck it up, mate. Suck it up! 
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Then his parents received a bill from the hospital for $500,000.00. Now he works nights, restocking the bottled drinks aisle at the local Piggly Wiggly.
Republicans are hailing the case as an example of how health care policy, combined with right-to-work laws, can build moral fiber and create the leaders of tomorrow.
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Fortunately, this kid was in Germany, so he probably got a telling off rather than a crippling bill. 
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Alas! Total rookie maneuver; always RTFA.
Honestly though, it’s entirely likely that the Trumpcare involves the exorbitant billing of patients in other countries to maintain our unworkable system.
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I was reading a thing recently about a towerblock fire over here in the UK. The point they made was that, if we had American style health “care” over here, the families of the dead would have been hit with bills for any failed medical treatment. Is this correct? If so, it seems extremely harsh.
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Yup, definitely. I’m pretty sure that the Hippocratic oath has been amended here to read, " First, do no harm — that’s the job of the billing department."
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Holy fork, the Invisible Claw of Free Market Economics really does need to be shackled by the Government. Bless Socialism!
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No kidding.
A commonly believed myth in the US is that medical bills can’t be sent to debt collection. Completely untrue, and if you ignore them once they go into collection, they ruin your credit score.
Bereavement and financial ruin, now that’s patient care.
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I couldn’t tell if this was a glass or plastic bottle, but if it was plastic, it would be pretty easy to drill a small hole in the end of the bottle and relieve the vacuum that way. That way you wouldn’t have to squeeze a tube around a already swollen tongue.
Edit: Now that I thought about it, it must have been glass, a plastic bottle you could just squeeze to remove it.
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Yes! Yes! I searched for the longest time before I gave up. It’s really freaky when you try and google keywords like “boy sucked into bottle”.
Maybe I should just turn the porn filter back on.
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I had a medical bill sent to collection for sure. And I had never even been sent a bill in the first place.
Basically the hospital where I had a routing scan took my $250 copay, then later decided it wasn’t enough. They sent a bill to a random address, and then sent it to collections.
I got harassing phone calls which I ignored, since I always pay my bills.
At some point I asked the caller to explain how I could tell it was real rather than a scam call, and they could not. Her only info was “medical billing” and the approximate date. From that I was able to trace it back to a likely answer.
Even when I called the hospital and they admitted literally all of this, they wouldn’t promise that payment would head off the collections because that was a separate company.
It took 2 years to settle what was 1) simple greed from Aria hospital and 2) billing incompetence by Aria hospital.
For $114.
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Humans are a kinky fuckin’ lot. Someone once expressed this sentiment well in a sci-fi way by writing something like “I can’t wait to be the first human astronaut to travel on a starship to a new world and be the fist one to fuck the hell out of a newly introduced to us intelligent species.” The gentleman in the Snopes article merely had a public mishap with a sex toy.
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Every time I watch that movie, I wonder why no one just poured water on it. 
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