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Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever
Reply #15 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 10:00am

Get the kid to Thailand or some Asian country, they don't have the same red tape and litigation hysteria that we have. I would be ringing major hospitals in other countries for help.

This is a tragedy that needs urgent action TODAY!

Surely a skilled surgeon can try to do something, at least remove the magnetic balls, don't know as far as the spreading toxicity goes.

It's been well over a week already.

I hope it all works out well in the end.

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bobbythefap1 Gold Member Offline Posts: 7026 Listen now to the rain	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #16 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 10:38am Think they are made out of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium
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bobbythefap1 Gold Member Offline Posts: 7026 Listen now to the rain	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #17 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 10:43am Are they still magnetic? Couldn't you coax them down the bowel with another magnet to a point where they will get naturally expelled? Or even flush them out with water? Eta: Or get him to digest a non corrosive magnetic element which could collect the balls on the way out
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Reply #18 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 10:50am

red baron wrote on Aug 9^th, 2012 at 9:49am:

HUGE UPDATE on this matter.

Channel 7 is interviewing the victim's mother today and it is scheduled to be on 7 National News tonight.

Doctors not involved with this have told my friend that the boy involved will die unless they are removed within 7 days because of the toxicity leaking into his body.

And no freaking surgeon in Australia is willing to pick up a knife and save this, kid's life because they are sh.t scared of litigation.

This is a national disgrace and shows what a total shambles our medical system has degenerated into.

It is easy enough for doctors to put together the paperwork for you to sign your life away. I suspect it is more about what is actually best for the kids.

Today Tonight are parasites.

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Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever
Reply #19 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 10:52am

freediver wrote on Aug 9^th, 2012 at 10:50am:

red baron wrote on Aug 9^th, 2012 at 9:49am:

HUGE UPDATE on this matter.

Channel 7 is interviewing the victim's mother today and it is scheduled to be on 7 National News tonight.

Doctors not involved with this have told my friend that the boy involved will die unless they are removed within 7 days because of the toxicity leaking into his body.

And no freaking surgeon in Australia is willing to pick up a knife and save this, kid's life because they are sh.t scared of litigation.

This is a national disgrace and shows what a total shambles our medical system has degenerated into.

It is easy enough for doctors to put together the paperwork for you to sign your life away. I suspect it is more about what is actually best for the kids.

Today Tonight are parasites.

Yeah I would be weary of TT, they say one thing when filming and broadcast something completely different..

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red baron Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10204 Blue Mountains Gender:	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #20 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 11:57am Dear Saul Attorney at Law Its going to be on the National News not Today Tonight. See what happens when you don't read the fine print. Remind me not to instruct you.
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bobbythefap1 Gold Member Offline Posts: 7026 Listen now to the rain	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #21 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 12:01pm red baron wrote on Aug 9^th, 2012 at 11:57am: Dear Saul Attorney at Law Its going to be on the National News not Today Tonight. See what happens when you don't read the fine print. Remind me not to instruct you. Where did I say it was going to be on TT?
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red baron Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10204 Blue Mountains Gender:	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #22 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 12:09pm So it wasn't you who said, 'I'd be wary of TT" Your words counsellor, you IMPLIED it. What do you call ten lawyers at the bottom of the ocean - a good start!
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bobbythefap1 Gold Member Offline Posts: 7026 Listen now to the rain	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #23 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 12:11pm red baron wrote on Aug 9^th, 2012 at 12:09pm: So it wasn't you who said, 'I'd be wary of TT" Your words counsellor, you IMPLIED it. What do you call ten lawyers at the bottom of the ocean - a good start! In response to what fd said, nothing to do with what you said.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49241 At my desk.	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #24 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 1:53pm Sorry for some reason I thought it was TT. Still, be wary of any journalists. The medical fraternity may not want to go anywhere near the kid if the media starts misrepresenting what is happening.
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Reply #25 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 2:31pm

The thing I find curious here is that although Buckyballs and Buckycubes are the subject of the first stop-sale ban issued by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission in 11 years, we haven't heard anything from their equivalents in Australia. It could be, of course, that they have been on sale in the US for some time but have only just arrived in Australia though. The various state Fair Trading offices (in particular New South Wales) seem to jump at every chance of reporting "killer toys" or anything remotely dangerous to children - if only because it gives them good publicity.

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Reply #26 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 4:45pm

UPDATE: Westmead Hospital caved when the 7 National News team arrived to interview them. The boy should be getting prepped for surgery as I write this.

As far as I am aware 7 still intend to run the story on tonight's news.

IT SHOULD NEVER EVER HAVE COME TO THIS!!!!!!!

PS Oh and Saul do us all a favour and take a powder would you. Go chase an ambulance or something.

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Reply #27 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 5:45pm

red baron wrote on Aug 9^th, 2012 at 4:45pm:

UPDATE: Westmead Hospital caved when the 7 National News team arrived to interview them. The boy should be getting prepped for surgery as I write this.

As far as I am aware 7 still intend to run the story on tonight's news.

IT SHOULD NEVER EVER HAVE COME TO THIS!!!!!!!

PS Oh and Saul do us all a favour and take a powder would you. Go chase an ambulance or something.

That's good news. See what a it of adverse media attention can get? I hope the surgeon can get them out and treat him for the toxins in his system.

So they could have operated on the day he swallowed them? saving him and his parents from days and nights of distress.

I am sending a warning to my son and daughter in law, forewarned is forearmed.

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adelcrow Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20133 everywhere Gender:	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #28 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 6:28pm This whole thing is a very sad tale..I hope the young fella is ok Red
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Ex Dame Pansi Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 24168	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #29 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 7:02pm Red baron, keep us up to date. Let us know how the op went etc......thanks
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