Chinese Man Has Eaten 1,500 Light Bulbs Over 42 Years

Posted by phunkychic666 on May 9, 2010

Simon Crisp writes on Asylum:

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A Chinese man says for the past 40 years he’s snacked on broken glass from lightbulbs, adding that he finds them “crispy and delicious.”

54-year-old Wang Xianjun, from the Sichuan province of China, claims he started eating light bulbs when he was 12 years old, and that he must have now eaten about 1,500 lightbulbs in total.

Xianjun says it all started when he accidentally swallowed a large fish bone as a child. His parents were worried what the bone might do to his insides, but he didn’t feel any discomfort at all.

This experience led him, out of curiosity, to try swallowing a small chunk of broken glass. (Well, why not? Oher than possibly killing yourself.) Again, he felt no adverse effects.

“I accidentally swallowed a piece of thick fish bone, but nothing happened,” he said. “With curiosity, I tried several pieces of broken glasses secretly and nothing happened also.”

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