“Wang Xianjun, living in the Xitan community in Linshui County, Sichuan province, is a complete and total “eccentric” in the eyes of his neighbors. It is common for people to have rice or steamed buns for the breakfast, but Wang likes to eat an extra light bulb. The 54-year-old man started eating light bulbs at the age of 12, and has eaten approximately 1,500 bulbs over the past 42 years.
Wang regards himself as open-minded. When he was 12 years old, he accidentally swallowed a fish bone, and his parents became very worried. To their surprise, Wang did not feel uncomfortable at all. Then out of curiosity, he boldly picked up a piece of broken glass, and felt no adverse effects after eating it.”
Read more at People’s Daily (thanks, SuZi)
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This will probably be the next “hollywood” diet craze.
If you remember in one of DB’s shows the guy ate a light bulb, proving it is not as dangerous as it sounds. Although eating 1500, maybe because the guy is poor and it is sustenance.
Some places make clay/mud cakes to eat because there literally isn’t any food around. Here in Asia, bugs are eaten quite commonly because when you are poor, they are available to get as you want and cook them.
So not so strange, but a little peculiar.
Scott
Where do you find these. haha They just get weirder and funnier.
crunchy frog!
One could say that, thus far, his esophagus has not made the cut.
Hm … that’s the favorite dish of a few more on this planet as it seems. Airplane engines prepare those dishes from volcano ashes .. is probably even more hot than a light bulb among a few …
I used to have a friend in kindergarten who put candy in his nose (little round candy that ofcourse got stuck) … never got that either. Eating glass .. must have been pretty pissed that boy or a desperate need for attention.
Ever wanted to have the mouth, throat and stomach checked of a few of those who do this in public?
Light bulbs are being made of easy glass (unless you do not have all teeth in your mouth anymore and do not control your tongue so well).
I don’t suppose it made him any brighter?