Indian suspect in banana ordeal

[muriel_volestrangler]

An Indian suspect was forced by police to eat 50 bananas as a laxative, to retrieve a necklace he was accused of stealing and swallowing.

When the bananas failed to produce the desired effect, police fed Sheikh Mohsin rice, chicken and local bread.

Finally the necklace, which appeared on an X-ray taken on the suspect, was excreted and retrieved.
...
A sweeper was paid to retrieve the exhibit from the toilet. Mr Mohsin was asked to wash it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6932216.stm

[TOhioLiberal]

1. Ewww!

That is all.

[Deja Q]

2. Wouldn't downing a bottle of castor oil be more effective? Plus save potassium-ridden bananas for

good people?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_oil

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Does the person still want the jewelry, or have they earmarked it as a gift?

"She got diamonds in the soles of her stool." -Not Paul Simon

[skygazer]

4. They don't have Ex-Lax in India?

That would be a good racket for starving people - steal and swallow some jewellry, you'll get fed well at the police station.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Definitely a Monty Python sketch.

"Hello officers, I've swallowed the Hope Diamond. Yes, it's true. Do your worst, I won't resist. Perhaps the caviar will assist. That didn't do it. How about five pounds of lobster bisque?"

[BarenakedLady]

5. Locking

No bodily fluid threads.







;)

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Don't you mean "leaking"?

ibtl

[Deja Q]

8. They have medications for that... Dapoxetine, right?

:hide:

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. It'd be my luck. I'd go to the police station and would be given olestra chips, not yummy bananas.

[supernova]

9. Aren't bananas constipating?

I thought they had the opposite effect from the one intended here. :shrug:

Ugh. And you know what? I wouldn't want the necklace back, no matter how many times it had been cleaned. :P :puke: