It’s amazing the things money can make us do. A 63-year-old businessman from India swallowed 12 gold bars the size of small biscuits in yet unclear circumstances. The man began complaining of pain and vomiting before admitting to the doctors that he had accidentally swallowed a water bottle cap, but alas!
Pictures of an X-ray showed something that didn’t look like a bottle cap at all. Upon opening him up, the surgeons were shocked to discover 12 gold bars each weighing 33g and estimated to be worth $23,300 inside the man’s stomach.
Doctors say the gold bars would have led to severe bleeding had it stayed there for a few more days, and eventually ruptured the intestines and caused blood poisoning. The New Delhi businessman, thought to be a known patient at the hospital, seems to have landed himself in trouble after Indian custom officials confiscated the gold and began to question him. One of the largest consumers of gold, the second-most populous nation in the world had tightened the noose on gold importation after many incidences of smuggling. Import tax on gold has been increased three times in a bid to subdue demand for the metal.
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