Hold the phone: Prisoner swallows cellphone, immediately regrets it - CNET

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This is going to sound pretty hard to swallow, but a prisoner in Dublin, Ireland, somehow managed to consume a cellphone. And unlike that one time when the dog wolfed down Grandma's diamond earring, doctors couldn't just wait around for it to come out the other end.

A 29-year-old Irish prisoner was taken to Dublin's Adelaide and Meath Hospital after four hours of vomiting, according to the current issue of Inteational Joual of Science Case Reports. He claimed to have swallowed a mobile phone, and the X-ray proved him right. The article notes, kindly, that "he had complex psycho-social issues."

Yes, the first question we all have is: What kind of phone is small enough to be swallowed? It wasn't an iPhone 6 Plus, that's for sure. Did he time-travel back to 1995 and get one of those cute little Nokias we all had back then?

According to Science Alert, it was actually a mini mobile phone, "the Long-CZ, which at just 5.8 cm (2.3 inches) long and less than 2.5 cm (1 inch) wide, is the smallest mobile phone on the market."

It's never said how he acquired a phone in prison, but having watched every episode of "Oz" and "Orange is the New Black," we're just going to assume there's some behind-bars black market for all these things.