Angry man swallows utensil to spite wife

Doctors finally removed a chopstick lodged in the throat of a man in Jurong, Jiangsu Province who intentionally swallowed the utensil during an argument with his wife five days earlier, local media reported on September 26.

The 40-year-old surnamed Zhang was brought to nearby Jiangsu Province Hospital, where doctors spent hours delicately extracting the 12-centimeter stainless steel chopstick he had shoved down his gullet as an act of anger.

Despite urging from his wife, Zhang refused to go to the hospital and only sought medical treatment when he began to feel pain three days later.

Zhang then had to wait another two days as hospitals in his area were ill-equipped for surgery.

The article did not mention what Zhang and his wife had argued about.