It is an irrefutable fact of childhood that if you leave them alone for long enough, your young ones will find a way to stuff a small inanimate object into one or more body orifice.

And while tiny round objects — like beads and peas— may be the most popular nostril-stuffers among one-to-five-year-olds, doctors have been known to remove paraphernalia as random and impressive as toy airplanes and three-year-old Lego wheels.

But occasionally there are stories that make pebble-filled sinuses sound like a mild fate. Because as the Huffington Post reports, seven-year-old Hector Flores, Jr. spent weeks squeaking like a rubber ducky before doctors realized he'd swallowed the inflatable toy's whistle.

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While Hector's teachers accused him of "deliberately disrupting" his second grade class with his squeaky breathing, his mother grew concerned when Hector couldn't explain the noise coming out of his little lungs.

"I said, 'Did you whistle?' 'Yes mommy I whistled,' his unidentified mother told WABC.

Hector's parents took him to Bronx Lebanon Hospital where doctors appeared to have graduated from the same school as his teachers, claiming the child's squeaks were in his head rather than his lungs. Instead, they prescribed stomach medication.

"They said he didn't have anything. That it was probably a psychological issue with the child. They concluded the child had a lot of fecal matter," said Hector's father.

Hector's father, who clearly attended a different institute of learning, knew enough to get a second opinion.

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He recorded his son squeaking away and took both the boy and the footage to Montefiore Hospital. There, doctors discovered the toy bit with a camera and managed to remove it via a 45-minute endoscopy.

And somewhere in Windsor, Ont., alleged jewel thief Richard Mackenzie Matthews may be wishing he'd tried his luck in a different city.