A Colombian woman who had a bitter fight with her husband angrily
swallowed $7000 in an attempt to keep the money away from his sight.
swallowed $7000 in an attempt to keep the money away from his sight.
In
an interview with the local RCN television channel, the woman said she
had been saving the money for a vacation with her husband before
swallowing it.
Luckily for the 30-year-old
woman, doctors at the University Hospital of Santander in Colombia were
able to extract the bills through surgery, after she swallowed them in
rolls of $100 bills.
Director of Surgery at the
University Hospital of Santander, Juan Paulo Serrano, said they were
able to surgically extract 57 $100 bills from the woman's stomach through the collon.
intestines, while other rolls would be passed through the colon.
He
said the rolls were not wrapped or packaged, which suggests they were
not part of any illegal transport and simply swallowed in an 'act of
desperation.'
He said the majority of the bills
were surgically extracted from the stomach. Other rolls would be passed
through the colon, he said
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