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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Emily Wu & Sara Odeen-Isbister

Man who swallowed glasses arms for a BET begs doctors to remove them four years later

A prankster begged doctors to remove a pair of spectacle arms four years after he swallowed them for a bed on a drunken night out.

The man, who lives in Shanghai, China, avoided speaking to medics earlier as he was too embarrassed.

But in the end the arms, which had become trapped in his digestive system, caused so much pain he had no choice but to seek help.

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