Man gets mystery growth after drinking can of beer he dropped in river - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Last or First;43114657]It kind of looks like a giant baby's head is coming out of his stomach. Why the hell would you consume anything you dropped in a river? Whatever it is is ruined now, give it up. The five-second-rule does not apply to liquids, much less for things [I]dropped in liquids[/I].[/QUOTE] When I was young, I drinked out of rivers when I visited my relatives in Romania or I put drinks in the River to cool them. Clean ice-cold riverwater is delicious and people used rivers for generations for fresh drinking water or other purposes like washing. You eat fish from the oceans or accidently swallow oceanwater... and parts of the ocean are even worse contaminated than any river.

[QUOTE=DMGaina;43117130]When I was young, I drinked out of rivers when I visited my relatives in Romania or I put drinks in the River to cool them. Clean ice-cold riverwater is delicious and people used rivers for generations for fresh drinking water or other purposes like washing. You eat fish from the oceans or accidently swallow oceanwater... and parts of the ocean are even worse contaminated than any river.[/QUOTE] There's a reason Roman children routinely drank watered-down wine, and children of the Middle Ages drank watered-down beer. Straight water wasn't safe to drink, so they had to mix alcohol with it to kill the bacteria.

[QUOTE=Shugo;43115334]This article gives more insight into his medical adventure with this, and an even worse picture: [url]http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/stomach-bugs-hospital-hell-beer-brisbane-river/1857454/[/url] jesus.[/QUOTE] [quote]He was transferred to Royal Brisbane Hospital and underwent another operation. While the operation was deemed a success, [B]he never realised the toll the failed operations had taken on his body until he woke up afterwards. He was left with a nasty-looking infection which he said was a hernia that made him look pregnant.[/B][/quote] That massive swelling is because of the operation, not whatever he drank. Also, there is medical treatment available, but he's had to wait until the ICU at hospital has a bed to care for him after his next operation before he can go under the knife again. This is one of the reasons you'd shouldn't drink river water, especially if it looks incredibly dirty (for obvious reasons) or if it looks crystal clear (it means that something has managed to kill off anything that should be living in it).

[QUOTE=DMGaina;43117130]When I was young, I drinked out of rivers when I visited my relatives in Romania or I put drinks in the River to cool them. Clean ice-cold riverwater is delicious and people used rivers for generations for fresh drinking water or other purposes like washing. You eat fish from the oceans or accidently swallow oceanwater... and parts of the ocean are even worse contaminated than any river.[/QUOTE] Do you have any idea why they boiled water or brewed it into different drinks in the older days? Yes, they used river water but only after purifying it. Drinking water straight from a river is a fucking terrible idea. Same for the sea. Oh and fish don't apply because unless you're a fucking bear your fish isn't going to be drenched in seawater and has probably been cooked.

It looks like a tumor, but what's gross is thinking that it could be a growth that started in his stomach and penetrated outward. Very unsettling, since I too have dropped a beer in the river.

So THAT's how boomers came about... (Yes I know someone already mentioned this.)

The Brisbane river is fairly dirty, but it's all dirt/sediment. It's pretty clean otherwise (People swim in it) I remember during the floods we did have a sewage treatment plant overflow, but the timeframe seems wrong.

[QUOTE=DMGaina;43117130]When I was young, I drinked out of rivers when I visited my relatives in Romania or I put drinks in the River to cool them. [B]Clean ice-cold riverwater is delicious and people used rivers for generations for fresh drinking water or other purposes like washing. [/B] You eat fish from the oceans or accidently swallow oceanwater... and parts of the ocean are even worse contaminated than any river.[/QUOTE] There's a pretty big difference between a river and a spring, you do understand that? People never drank from rivers unless it was their only choice.

[QUOTE=codemaster85;43114545]see? even the fucking water it's self is deadly in Australia.[/QUOTE] What, does gravity pull all the waste and biohazards down there or something?

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;43118619]What, does gravity pull all the waste and biohazards down there or something?[/QUOTE] Nah, Australia is just a living, thinking entity that strives to kill all human life on its surface.

I literally said "What the fuck" out loud when i saw the image. Jesus, that is some nasty shit.

Put that thing back where it came from or so help me.

[QUOTE=Last or First;43114657]It kind of looks like a giant baby's head is coming out of his stomach. Why the hell would you consume anything you dropped in a river? Whatever it is is ruined now, give it up. The five-second-rule does not apply to liquids, much less for things [I]dropped in liquids[/I].[/QUOTE] but if the can was unopened then you'd think it would be perfectly safe to drink