A First For Me! Nickel found In Human! UPDATE AFTER X RAY IN REPLIES

[West Jersey Detecting]

A woman on Craig's List contacted me a few weeks back. She did not want unnecessary x-rays done on her 4 year old who had swallowed a coin. Her doctor recommended a metal detector as an alternative. I was hesitant, and told her I would think about it and she should wait to see if it passes. After a few weeks she was concerned that the coin had not passed and contacted me again. This time I moved into action.

I stopped by their apartment building this evening. They met me outside the lobby, to reduce the risk of EMI interfering. First I tried my Garrett pinpointer, but it did not detect anything. Then I broke out the V3 with the 5.3 inch coil (due to the EMI in the city). They told me he swallowed a dime, but it came up nickel! When I showed him a pocketful of change he confirmed it and pointed to the shiny nickel. it was higher than I expected, right around his diaphragm.

You should have seen the look on that boy's face when I broke out the Lesche!!!

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

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He swallowed a nickel a few weeks back? Isn't that...how long does it....never mind...

Well...I rekin you did good, Neil. I hope it all works out for him.

Nana

That was part of the issue that it did not pass because it is lodged in his esophagus.


As far as false signals, that was a concern, but I was able to pinpoint it and you all know how a coin pinpoints vs any other type of false signals.

 

[civilman1]

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That's crazy.....Best of Luck!!!!

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

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Good story Neil

 

[Skelly607]

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Wayyyyyyyyyyy funny!

 

[Elad]

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I LOL when I saw this topic... when you told me this story yesterday, I thought you were joking. Is she going to ask you to check again later?

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

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I LOL when I saw this topic... when you told me this story yesterday, I thought you were joking. Is she going to ask you to check again later?

Now it gets interesting... I heard from the boy's mother again today. The kid had a case of "the runs" yesterday so they took him to to Dr for x-rays, and they found nothing! The coin must have passed! They said the x-ray technician got a big kick out of the story as well.

They asked me to do what they referred to as a "control scan", and I told her I had no problem with it. Maybe I will try my big Super 12 coil and the Relic Pro digging tool this time . So the saga continues!

Interesting enough, I did some Googling last night and found out that kids swallow the darnedest things!

 

[N.J.THer]

Here is my theory on the life of this nickel:

1. One day in they past a shine new nickel was minted...
2. This nickel was sent to a bank where it is given out to its first owner.
3. Through out the years it transfers through many hands...sometimes spending quality time in a dark cash register draws making friend with other coins...
4. Possibly given to this child's mother or father as change at the local food store.
5. At home it may have been placed in a nightstand or in a change 'dish'.
6. The child finds this delicious looking shiny nickel. Lets call this child Jimmy...
7. Now Jimmy has a nickel... Jimmy proceeds to swallow this delightful treat...
8. The nickel makes its way through little Jimmy's digestive system.
9. At some point in this process our hero, Neil, enters the picture with his magic geiger counter and locates the foreign object...he marks an 'X' on the child's boby (okay I made that up)
10. This foreign object irritates little Jimmy's bowels which gives the child the runs.
11. The nickel finds itself in a toilet where he goes on a wet and wild trip through our sewer system...
12. Ends up in Wastewater Treatment facility holding tank where it is filtered out with trash, rocks and other non waste items.
13. All of this material is placed into a dumpster and carted off to the dump.
14. Fast forward 100 years... Someone out bottle hunting finds a nice early 2010 plastic Coke Cola bottle which was just exposed by a recent acid rain.
15. They decided they would like to metal detect this old dump.
16. They bring our friend the shiny nickel to light althought he is no longer shiny and the date is hard to read.
17. After getting home and rinsing the coin off they take a loupe and look really close at the date.
18. That is the first time they get hit with a strange smell...
19. The Nickel gets placed in a futuristic coin holder and marked 20XX Jefferson Nickel found at old dump - strange smell.
The End

 

[Aussie Okie]

You think that's weird....

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Here is my theory on the life of this nickel:

1. One day in they past a shine new nickel was minted...
2. This nickel was sent to a bank where it is given out to its first owner.
3. Through out the years it transfers through many hands...sometimes spending quality time in a dark cash register draws making friend with other coins...
4. Possibly given to this child's mother or father as change at the local food store.
5. At home it may have been placed in a nightstand or in a change 'dish'.
6. The child finds this delicious looking shiny nickel. Lets call this child Jimmy...
7. Now Jimmy has a nickel... Jimmy proceeds to swallow this delightful treat...
8. The nickel makes its way through little Jimmy's digestive system.
9. At some point in this process our hero, Neil, enters the picture with his magic geiger counter and locates the foreign object...he marks an 'X' on the child's boby (okay I made that up)
10. This foreign object irritates little Jimmy's bowels which gives the child the runs.
11. The nickel finds itself in a toilet where he goes on a wet and wild trip through our sewer system...
12. Ends up in Wastewater Treatment facility holding tank where it is filtered out with trash, rocks and other non waste items.
13. All of this material is placed into a dumpster and carted off to the dump.
14. Fast forward 100 years... Someone out bottle hunting finds a nice early 2010 plastic Coke Cola bottle which was just exposed by a recent acid rain.
15. They decided they would like to metal detect this old dump.
16. They bring our friend the shiny nickel to light althought he is no longer shiny and the date is hard to read.
17. After getting home and rinsing the coin off they take a loupe and look really close at the date.
18. That is the first time they get hit with a strange smell...
19. The Nickel gets placed in a futuristic coin holder and marked 20XX Jefferson Nickel found at old dump - strange smell.
The End

I think you messed up the end... One day in the distant future, the little boy named 745VHD3 goes into his Dad's room and starts rummaging through his belongings, when he comes across a (somewhat) shiny looking thing nicely wrapped in paper an plastic. Hmm, I wonder what this tastes like. As he places it on his tongue, 745 (as they called him for short) is startled as his dad walks in the room and yells "what are you doing, 745!!!" Taken by surprise, the shiny coin slips down 745's throat where it stays until......

And on and on and on...........

 

[N.J.THer]

Good point...it is a vicious cycle...

We just had a cousins kid swallow a watch battery. With that the doctors were very concern and took immediate actions to get him to pass it. I'm glad everything turned out okay with the nickel.

 

[zaxfire69]

This post reminds me of the other night when I was hanging a mirror for my wife. I was using the stud finder and my wife was bitc@in that i was doing it all wrong..You know how they do. ANYWAY I took the stud finder and turned around and said hey watch this..Put the stud finder and turned it on myself and it started going off. I said..That's right I'm a stud..The machine is working just fine.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

This post reminds me of the other night when I was hanging a mirror for my wife. I was using the stud finder and my wife was bitc@in that i was doing it all wrong..You know how they do. ANYWAY I took the stud finder and turned around and said hey watch this..Put the stud finder and turned it on myself and it started going off. I said..That's right I'm a stud..The machine is working just fine.

 

[njnydigger]

Check the link out Neil. I'd say there's a new business in someone's future. I'd go with an LLC over a sole proprietorship

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/33400-ring-swallowing-thief-put-under-toilet-watch

 

[S.S.Tupperware]

I had a lady contact me about the same thing from Craigslist, but thing passed on their own...

 

[traderoftreasures]

That's a funny story.
I wish i had that nickel,
I'm so broke if they rented canoes out for a nickel
all I could do is run down the bank yelling
"ain't that cheap, ain't that cheap"