He Finished an Expiring Bag of Peanuts, and Surgeons Pulled 500 Milliliters of Them Out of His Small Intestine
The reasoning was ordinary enough. The bag was about to expire, so he finished it. Within a day, the man in his 70s was at a hospital in Canberra, Australia, with abdominal pain and vomiting, unable to pass gas or move his bowels. A CT scan showed dilated loops of small bowel and what the…