Fir Tree Found Growing Inside Man's Lung

Thrill · 15-04-2009 12:03pm #1

Doctors thought this guy had cancer but were ( forgive me for this ) barking up the wrong tree. Instead they found a tree.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Tree-Found-In-Lung-Seed-Sprouted-Inside-Russian-Mans-Chest/Article/200904315262048?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15262048_Tree_Found_In_Lung%3A_Seed_Sprouted_Inside_Russian_Mans_Chest_

Beware, gross pic of lung.....

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/Apr/Week3/15262097.jpg

So, whats the worst plant you've found growing on you?*

*Typical Boards type question

My name is URL · 15-04-2009 12:05pm

This will trigger a new branch of science

Professey Chin · 15-04-2009 12:06pm

Guess they were barking up the wrong tree looking for cancer

brummytom · 15-04-2009 12:07pm

I bet the doctors were pining for something like this

*Runs away*

MoominPapa · 15-04-2009 12:09pm

Sack the oncologist, get me a tree surgeon

Zadkiel · 15-04-2009 12:09pm

I'm sure having left hospital, he'll have spruce'd himself up

Anyone?....no?

I guess I'll just leaf then

javaboy · 15-04-2009 12:10pm

MoominPapa wrote: »

Sack the oncologist, get me a tree surgeon

Best pun award! The contest is now officially over.

Sean Quagmire · 15-04-2009 12:18pm

how did the treeage nurse not spot this

/walks away with grin

misty floyd · 15-04-2009 12:25pm

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

how did the treeage nurse not spot this

/walks away with grin

sap

follows Quagmire

dlambirl · 15-04-2009 12:25pm

I ate my apple today so carefully instead i'd eat or inhale a seed!!

Saint_Mel · 15-04-2009 12:27pm

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

how did the treeage nurse not spot this

/walks away with grin

Bet they were glad when they finally got to the root of the problem!

Kinetic^ · 15-04-2009 12:28pm

I bet this guy felt like a bit of a sap!

Jet Black · 15-04-2009 12:29pm

What does he expect with a wife named treesa green?

<make's like tree>
:-)

Kinetic^ · 15-04-2009 12:30pm

Finally,a new branch in the evolution tree.

brummytom · 15-04-2009 12:31pm

Thrill wrote: »

So, whats the worst plant you've found growing on you?*

Does a tree count?

Pat Kenny

*Feels quite smug for actually knowing an irish "personality",, but still feels bad*

miss deise · 15-04-2009 12:31pm

Can anyone explain how the seed sprouted and grew into a branch without sunlight and soil nutrients and such?

The mind boggles...

Jigsaw · 15-04-2009 12:35pm

Doctors will want to carry out a root and branch evaluation of their diagnosis procedures.

CreepingDeath · 15-04-2009 12:35pm

He must've saved a few quid on pine fresheners.

brummytom · 15-04-2009 12:36pm

I bet he soiled himself when they told him

I really should leaf now

My name is URL · 15-04-2009 12:44pm

miss deise wrote: »

Can anyone explain how the seed sprouted and grew into a branch without sunlight and soil nutrients and such?

The mind boggles...

Pleurosynthesis

it almost sounds real

nomorebadtown · 15-04-2009 12:50pm

maybe he had a fear of needles

CreepingDeath · 15-04-2009 12:57pm

miss deise wrote: »

Can anyone explain how the seed sprouted and grew into a branch without sunlight and soil nutrients and such?

The mind boggles...

All plant seeds start off with their own food store.
The seeds of apples are just the pips inside, the actual edible apple bit is its food store. Same goes for the pine nut.
It lived off the pine nut supplies and the lungs had plenty of moisture for water. It would've eventually died when the pine nut food supply ran out and it had no access to sunlight.

cotwold · 15-04-2009 1:01pm

I wood hate that to happen to me.

Carroller16 · 15-04-2009 1:02pm

he'll need a big twig i mean swig of medicine

Zadkiel · 15-04-2009 1:04pm

The whole thing is unbe-leaf-able:o

Thephantomsmask · 15-04-2009 1:12pm

So humans can get firballs? I bet the doctors ponderosa-ed over the cause extensively.

drunkmonkey · 15-04-2009 1:15pm

well shiver me timbers, that's unbeliviable...

ScumLord · 15-04-2009 1:18pm

Fir play to the doctors for spotting that problem, it wasn't even in their particular field of medicine.

Dyr · 15-04-2009 1:46pm

Suprised they didnt twig it sooner alright

nomorebadtown · 15-04-2009 1:48pm

what a sap.

S.I.R · 15-04-2009 1:48pm

lets hope he gets a leaf of life from this... or after he survives it... *touch wood*

Jet Black · 15-04-2009 1:55pm

He can put it all behind him and turn over a new leaf.

Heisenberg. · 15-04-2009 2:18pm

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Sofiztikated · 15-04-2009 2:30pm

Scien wrote: »

I'm sycamore and more people just using this mans ailment fir a cheap laugh.

Give that man a medal, the only pun i didn't see coming.
Wooden it be nice if he survives? *ya, ya, i know.*

netwhizkid · 15-04-2009 2:37pm

I wonder did he get wood from the whole incident?

Mexicola · 15-04-2009 3:01pm

I'd say he felt like a right plank when he saw that. He probably milled into a few beers afterwards too...

Abi · 15-04-2009 4:11pm

*evil laughs in dark corner*

Fools! I saw him. He was sexing with the trees! The tree impregnated him.. He should be made to have it!

The dirrrty bästard.

Banter Joe · 15-04-2009 4:13pm

He must be happy that they removed the fir tree from his lungs.

No pun intended.

Red Sleeping Beauty · 15-04-2009 7:08pm

Those are some might fine douglas firs...

SoWatchaWant · 15-04-2009 7:19pm

That's really weird. I can't believe it!

Run_to_da_hills · 15-04-2009 7:24pm

His father was in the special branch. :pac:

Ann22 · 15-04-2009 9:09pm

My sister knows a woman who had a bad cough, was sent for an xray and a wee roundy thing showed up. The docs thought it was a little tumour...sent her for a broncoscopy...and lo and behold they found a button. Dunno a fcuk how that got there

:D. How would you inhale a button?

wudangclan · 15-04-2009 9:10pm

chocolate button or ordinary clothing type button?

Ann22 · 15-04-2009 9:16pm

wudangclan wrote: »

chocolate button or ordinary clothing type button?

You know, it never crossed my mind to ask. I'd say it was a clothing type one 'cos a chocolate one would surely melt into some kind of goo all mixed up with the mucus...it wouldn't have been identifiable as a chocolate button. I'd imagine it would be more likely to inhale a chocolate one though.

shezzie · 15-04-2009 9:28pm

wood they be doing a full body check up now they dont want to be barking up the wrong tree and finding one connected to his heart or something - he'll soon have a forest growing inside him if they aren't careful - definate job for that specialist tree surgeon

wudangclan · 15-04-2009 9:28pm

Ann22 wrote: »

You know, it never crossed my mind to ask. I'd say it was a clothing type one 'cos a chocolate one would surely melt into some kind of goo all mixed up with the mucus...it wouldn't have been identifiable as a chocolate button. I'd imagine it would be more likely to inhale a chocolate one though.

it's hard to conceive unless she works in a button factory

Paddy Samurai · 15-04-2009 9:30pm

Cedar I told you, lifes a Birch!.
Luckly for him they pulled his chessnuts out of the fire.
Hopefully now people will leaf the guy alone and give him a chance to conifer with his doctors.
Oak e dokey!.

Ann22 · 15-04-2009 9:31pm

wudangclan wrote: »

it's hard to conceive unless she works in a button factory

The woman thinks it was there since her childhood. She's a friend of my sister's mother in law and is in her 70s, probably there years..

wudangclan · 15-04-2009 9:33pm

Ann22 wrote: »

The woman thinks it was there since her childhood. She must've nearly choked on it once.

i kinda know how she feels. i swallowed two dice one time and i'm still waiting to see what numbers come up.

Owenw · 15-04-2009 9:36pm

Abigayle wrote: »

*evil laughs in dark corner*

Fools! I saw him. He was sexing with the trees! The tree impregnated him.. He should be made to have it!

The dirrrty bästard.

Like that movie where John Hurt was impregnated by a treehugger...

Fir Tree Found Growing Inside Man's Lung

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