There it is, at the top (Picture: International Journal of Surgery Case Reports)

It can be tricky enough to swallow an asprin, but one prisoner managed to gulp down an entire mobile phone.

The 29-year-old had to have surgery after he began vomiting and symptoms carried on for several hours.

When he admitted to doctors what he had done, he was taken to Tallaght Hospital in Dublin.

Doctors tried to fish out the phone using grippers attached to a camera and light but it wasn’t working, so they decided they had no other option but to operate.


We’re not sure how he managed it (Picture: International Journal of Surgery Case Reports)

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Details of the case were reported in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports.



Lisa Riley slams claims she had a gastric bypass to shed 7 stoneExactly how or why he swallowed the phone is unclear, but he had mental health issues according to the report.

Medics performed a ‘laparotomy’ which is when they make a cut through the abdominal wall to access the organs inside.

The authors described it as a ‘rare’ case although ‘foreign body ingestion is a relatively common emergency problem.’