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Drunk student swallowed key

Time for a bit of a Friday giggle at the antics of a drunken student…

Inebriated student Chris Foster swallowed his room key so his friends couldn’t take him home and put him to bed. When he woke up after sleeping on a friend’s sofa, he had no recollection of the incident. After telling doctors what may have happened, the computer design student underwent an x-ray and was stunned to see the two-inch Yale key lying in the pit of his stomach. Medics told him to let nature take its course - and the key emerged 31 hours later. Chris cleaned it up and put it back on his keyring.

The incident began when Chris, a student at Bournemouth University, Dorset, attended a party in the student halls.

He said: “My friends all said that I’d had far too much to drink and should go to my room but I didn’t want to. I wanted to stay at the party so I swallowed my door key dry.”

Horrified friend Matt Taylor, 19, attempted the Heimlich manoeuvre on him to recover the key but without success. He was also given salt water to drink in a bid to bring it up.

Chris said: “I slept on a friend’s sofa that night and I couldn’t find it anywhere the next day. I thought it was a bit of a wind up when my friend said that I had swallowed it. But my throat started to feel very sore and my stomach didn’t feel right so my friend took me to hospital on the bus. I was stunned when I first saw the key in my stomach but then couldn’t stop laughing - even the doctors were sniggering.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .