Home Mobile Archives Reader Blogs Register Login

Thursday, June 29, 2006

I’ll Bet He Does Know How It Got There

Oh my...

2006_06_29t092304_450x315_us_pakistan_bulb.jpg


MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus.

Wednesday night, doctors brought Mohammad's misery to an end after a one-and-a-half hour operation to remove the object.

"Thanks Allah, now I feel comfort. Today, I had my breakfast. I was just drinking water, nothing else," Mohammad, a grey-beared man in his mid-40s, told Reuters from a hospital bed in the southern central city of Multan.


This made me squirm a bit...

"We had to take it out intact," said Dr. Farrukh Aftab at Nishtar Hospital. "Had it been broken inside, it would be a very very complicated situation."


Complicated doesn't even begin to describe it. It's nearly impossible for me to get all the glass from a broken bulb off the linoleum floor in my kitchen. I can't even imagine doing it in...there.

Ick.

Regardless, no one just wakes up with a lightbulb in their ass. Clearly, Mr. Mohammad was probably just a little bored in his cell...

(via reader Paulie B)

Comments

Avatar for Steve

Rectum? Damn near killed ‘em.

Steve on June 29, 2006 at 11:15 am
Avatar for diane

Abu Ghraib. 

Regardless, no one just wakes up with a lightbulb in their ass. Clearly, Mr. Mohammad was probably just a little bored in his cell…

(via reader Paulie B)

Or maybe a guard was a little bored?  And the man is afraid to say what really happened under threat of more of the same or worse?

diane on June 29, 2006 at 11:20 am
Avatar for Steve

Diane, I’m so sorry you can’t blame this on America.

Steve on June 29, 2006 at 11:27 am
Avatar for diane

Nor can you blame it on the prisoner, unless you have ‘inside’ information.  Pun very much intended.

diane on June 29, 2006 at 11:29 am
Avatar for Hoodlumman

Manual pingback

Blasted Movable Type…

Hoodlumman on June 29, 2006 at 11:48 am
Avatar for Steve

It is very possible the prisoner did this himself. Do a little searching and you’ll find all sorts of interesting things stuffed where they don’t belong.

Steve on June 29, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Avatar for Mickey

You know when you get a great idea, and that little light goes off over your head....

well Fateh Mohammad has his brain in his ass.

Mickey on June 29, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Avatar for Rob B.

What was he wattage?
It’s all about resistence…

Rob B. on June 29, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Avatar for The Whistler

I’m pretty sure it couldn’t get there intact without his cooperation.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

The Whistler on June 29, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Avatar for Keith

"Clap on!  Clap off!”

Keith on June 29, 2006 at 01:21 pm
Avatar for Paulie B

Call me crazy…

Diane blames the guard, and turns around and then states that no one can blame the prisoner without inside infomation.  Since she blames the guard, does this mean Diane has inside information on situations like these?

SA Poll:  Is her inside information as the guard?  or the prisoner?

(was that too far?)

Paulie B on June 29, 2006 at 01:46 pm
Avatar for robert108

"Inside information”?  That’s too funny.  Good one, Paulie.

robert108 on June 29, 2006 at 01:48 pm
Avatar for Paulie B

Thanks, but I cannot take credit for the ‘inside information’ bit.  That was all Diane.

Paulie B on June 29, 2006 at 01:51 pm
Avatar for robert108

Yes, but she has never demonstrated any evidence of having a sense of humor.  I’m sure she didn’t get it.

robert108 on June 29, 2006 at 01:53 pm
Avatar for Robert Perry

Given that this is Pakistan and the victim is in jail, we can’t blame alcohol or drugs for this.  I tend to agree with Diane--somebody did this to him, and he’s scared to tell (and glad to be alive).  Perhaps a guard, perhaps fellow inmates.

Or, to put it in the words of a friend of mine who’s a 3rd world missionary, “third world prison ministry doesn’t appeal to me.”

Robert Perry on June 29, 2006 at 02:28 pm
Rob
Rob
17507 comments
Send a private message

Robert, I doubt a guard did it to him.  How would you get a lightbulb in without it breaking when you’re fighting a struggling prisoner?

I think he did it himself to get his jollies.


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

robport.gif border=0

Rob on June 29, 2006 at 02:39 pm
Avatar for Robert Perry

Rob, from what I’ve heard, you don’t argue or fight with a 3rd world prison guard unless you want to be taken out of the prison with the sheet over your head, if you catch my drift.  I’ve got missionary friends who have spent time in 3rd world prisons, and suffice it to say that they’re not nice places.

I won’t say for sure that it’s a guard, but either a guard or fellow prisoners sounds fairly likely. 

Could be boredom, but that’s not the most likely scenario, IMO.

Robert Perry on June 29, 2006 at 02:43 pm
Avatar for diane

Clueless Robert108 yelps:
Yes, but she has never demonstrated any evidence of having a sense of humor. I’m sure she didn’t get it.

Even Paulie got it.  Clueless, that’s why I said pun was intended.  Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh.  I think my sense of humor is demonstrated just by showing up here, considering.

******************************

I’m pretty sure it couldn’t get there intact without his cooperation.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

The Whistler on June 29, 2006 at 3:50 PM

What?  Lots of ‘things’ get ‘in there’ without people’s cooperation.  It’s called ‘rape’.  And there’s something VERY wrong with that, if that’s what happened.  But Paulie, I never blamed the guard, I just suggested that was an option to balance yours.

And by the way, though he probably wouldn’t want them from me, I give them anyway to honest Robert Perry, who can see the logic in how it might have happened.  Thank you, Robert.  I know you don’t care for me or my opinions, but you are apparently a decent/honest man when it comes to not being blinded to logic by your politics.
That’s rare here and stands out from the crowd.

diane on June 29, 2006 at 04:11 pm
Avatar for diane

Don’t panic, Robert Perry!  wink

What I meant to give you are kudos. 

Just in a hurry.  Sorry.

diane on June 29, 2006 at 04:11 pm
Avatar for diane

Oh...and I have a Pakistani friend who is much more civilized than most here.  Robert Perry, tying it into Pakistan I totally disagree with.  It happens in U.S. prisons regularly.

But then, folks here don’t like to acknowledge such things.  Not faux patriotic.

diane on June 29, 2006 at 04:13 pm
Avatar for robert108

"It happens in U.S. prisons regularly.”

More “inside information”?

robert108 on June 29, 2006 at 04:38 pm
Avatar for Hoodlumman

Methinks Diane may be a conjugal visit fanatic.  I wonder if she’s as generous towards U.S. sailors on shore leave?

Hoodlumman on June 29, 2006 at 06:12 pm
Avatar for Jesse

Hey these people have proved over and over and over they aren’t exactly rational, so he really don’t need to explain why he put the bulb up there.

Most civilized people want the light bulb to turn on in the brain, here is a good illustration these Arabs apparently have got their ends mixed up. 

Maybe it is a cry for help out of the depths of despair, poor thing down to such simple ways of pleasing Allah. Well he’s doing what he can, can’t really strap on a bomb to earn his 72 virgins in prison now, can he? I wonder if Allah provides more virgins if the light bulb breaks??

As the world turns in the Arab Parallel Universe.......

Oh and Diane, you really got the tinfoil hat dialed in. Reception was especially good last night huh??

Jesse on June 30, 2006 at 05:28 am
Avatar for Robert Perry

Diane, I’m extremely hurt by your commendation. :^)

And yes, there are plenty of decent people in the third world.  I’d simply note that prison isn’t ordinarily the best place to meet them.  :^)

And Diane is entirely correct to note that one of the major problems in prisons--especially those in the U.S.--is homosexual rape.  (shame on you, hoodlumman, for that obnoxious comment....we can agree without being disagreeable, sir)

Robert Perry on June 30, 2006 at 06:22 am
Avatar for Rob B.

Disagreeable nature is his good side, you should see him when he’s actually “jolly.” It’s devistating.

Still, it’s very doubtful that got up there, without his help, in one piece.

And Diane, I have to remind you that “rape isn’t about sex, it’s about power.” That’s illuminating, eh?

Rob B. on June 30, 2006 at 05:40 pm
Avatar for diane

Most civilized people want the light bulb to turn on in the brain, here is a good illustration these Arabs apparently have got their ends mixed up.

Ah, that must be one of those non-racial comments, lik is referring to, telling me I’m the only one that cares about race here.

Robert Perry, a gentleman as usual.  Yourself, Tu, MikeA; there are still some reasons to TRY to communicate here.  Not many, granted, but a few.

And Diane, I have to remind you that “rape isn’t about sex, it’s about power.” That’s illuminating, eh?

Not really.  I knew that.  Just like on this board.  It’s not about insulting me; it’s about trying to compensate for peoples’ lack of self-esteem and intelligence.

Methinks Diane may be a conjugal visit fanatic. I wonder if she’s as generous towards U.S. sailors on shore leave?

Congratulations.  I’m placing you in position #2B, directly under Boy, in the Most Stupid Poster of the Year awards here at Say ANYTHING (if you’re a radical, right-wing, BushWhacked fanatic).

diane on June 30, 2006 at 05:46 pm
Avatar for robert108

"Most Stupid Poster of the Year awards here at Say ANYTHING (if you’re a radical, right-wing, BushWhacked fanatic).”

And you are #1A, by that last comment, and on the basis of your entire history commenting here.

robert108 on June 30, 2006 at 05:55 pm
Page 1 of 1        

Post a Comment


Before commenting, please recite:

Grant me the serenity to ignore the trolls,
the courage to debate with honest opponents,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Name   
Email   
URL   
Human?
  
 

Upload Image    

Remember my personal information

Notify me of follow-up comments?

Note: Notifications will only be sent to confirmed email addresses.