Aluminium bottle sucks boy's tongue in. Not a funny story.

[Baitball Blogger]

Water bottle accident lands boy in hospital

ORLANDO, Fla. -
An 11-year-old Orlando boy was seriously injured in a freak accident at school when a water bottle "sucked his tongue in" and had to be surgically removed.

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"He went in to have a drink and when he went to pull it away from his mouth, it just sucked his tongue in," said his mother, Ebony Gibson. "My heart just dropped. It just dropped."

"His airways had swollen up so badly and his tongue swollen up so badly, he couldn't breathe on his own," Ebony Gibson said. "He's very scared."

Gibson said the grooves inside the neck of the bottle cut his tongue and lips.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Water-bottle-accident-lands-boy-in-hospital/-/1637132/17702572/-/nl7o2e/-/index.html

[lame54]

1. The bottle or the tongue had to be removed?

[Proles]

8. Don't you just love how news articles are written nowadays? /nt

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Wow. Who would have ever expected something like that?

[Chemisse]

3. Strange.

I can see how the tongue would get sucked in, if when you drink from it, you create a bit of a vacuum in the bottle. But how did his tongue and lips get cut, and how did this all cause his airways to swell? Unless the blood rushing to the tongue swelled up the whole tongue and the back of the tongue blocked the airway.

And aluminum? Would or could this happen with plastic or stainless steel?

[LARED]

4. The reporting is awful

How does someone take a sip (Mom stated this) of water, and get their tongue sucked into the bottle?

More like the kid was goofing around and stuck his tongue into the bottle after sucking out the air. 11 year old kids do stupid things all the time.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I remember doing that with my thermos.

We would have welts around our mouth.

[alphafemale]

6. That's what I' m guessing.

There is no way a bottle just sucked in that kid' s tongue. No fucking way.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. I can't see why they'd have to 'surgically remove' the bottle

If this was due to a partial vacuum in the bottle that sucked his lips and tongue into it, could they have just put a small hole in the other end of the bottle, to allow normal atmospheric pressure back into it?

[ProfessorGAC]

9. That's The First Thing I Thought

If it's vacuum, all one has to do is equalize the pressure. There something missing in this story.

[aikoaiko]

10. It sounds like the to tongue swelled after being sucked in

Even after equalizing pressure it might not have been possible to remove the tongue through the bottle neck

[tjwash]

11. That's the worst written article I have ever read.

Please tell me they are not actually paying that "journalist."

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. They are

And I am betting that's the editor.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. The same one who decided to endorse Romney?

[MineralMan]

12. Moral of the story: Don't suck the water out. Always allow air into the bottle.

Now, if someone with a decent knife had punched a hole in the aluminum bottle, the vacuum would have been broken and the boy could have pulled his tongue out, saving a trip to the ER. But, he was at school, and nobody can carry a pocket knife there, not even the janitor or other adults.

[marions ghost]

15. happened to my sister with a vintage coke bottle

as a kid--she had to go to the hospital and they broke the bottle while protecting her face and then treated her tongue. She cried the whole time. Very scary. It her case the bottle just hung off her tongue ...

Then later she fell down some stairs and bit her tongue all the way through...

Tongues can be vulnerable...