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Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever
Aug 5^th, 2012 at 7:11pm

Seen all the bright shiny adds for the next big thing Bucky Balls on the internet?

Bright, shiny, colourful, magnetic and the must have product.

Whatever you do....don't buy the bastards!

My friend Bob's grandson ingested two of these freaking disasters recently.

No surgeon in Australia will operate on him to get them out! These bastards go ballistic inside the human body, their properties are highly dangerous, so dangerous that these bastards could kill you stone dead.

They are advertised for adults, but try keeping bastards little potential killers away from kids.

My friend's grandson's life hangs in the balance whilst everyone up to the Head Professor of Westmead children's hospital scratches their collective heads because they don't know how to get the bastards out, which have now lodged in the child's bowel. The magnetic powers of ther balls make them like laying a minefield inside the human body.

Tell everyone you know ditch them and ditch them, yesterday.

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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 #1 - Aug 5^th, 2012 at 7:14pm Did they try sticking him in an MRI machine?
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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 #2 - Aug 5^th, 2012 at 7:32pm Freediver, one of the problems is that stuff in the bowel has calcified around them, it is a parents' worst nightmare. All the surgeons are too scared to operate because of risk of litigation if they perforate the bowel. Welcome to Oz medicine circa 2012! Meantime the kid has a time bomb ticking away.
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Reply #3 - Aug 5^th, 2012 at 8:18pm

Did the two bits travel together? Or are they now stuck together magnetically but from different parts of the colon? Is there anything in particular about these things that make them get stuck? Kids eat random stuff all the time and it usually passes through, though it does make the doctors very nervous.

My father has some very powerful magnets encased in plastic ribbing that they feed to horses to help them pass metal objects they have swallowed.

If you were very gentle about it you might be able to coax them through with a magnetic field, but you would need a large one that you could keep far away from the body.

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People who can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bug me in ways I cannot put into words.

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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 #4 - Aug 6^th, 2012 at 5:39am Freediver can't give you more at this stage, however I can say that over 200 kids world wide have had catastrophic results from swallowing these damned things.
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Reply #5 - Aug 6^th, 2012 at 5:46am

OK Freediver I have some more information. The balls are separated into two separate loops in the bowel. The chemicals administered have now dispensed the coating that formed around the balls. The medics are hoping that they may now pass through the bowel.

If this fails it means a 5 hour operation and a distinct risk that the bowel could be perforated, a very serious aspect.

The dark side of this is that the properties of the balls are now exposed to the body and this is a great potential threat to the human body from whatever these crap products are made from.

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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26512 Australia	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #6 - Aug 6^th, 2012 at 6:26am This is them since baron didnt link http://www.getbuckyballs.com/ They look interesting and very irresistible to kids. SOB
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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 #7 - Aug 6^th, 2012 at 6:45am Thanks for the leg up Spot of Borg even if there was a spike attached. The main thing is to keep these EXTREMELY DANGEROUS products aways from the kids.
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Reply #8 - Aug 6^th, 2012 at 6:52am

I can see why a little kid would put those things in their mouth. They look just like lollies.

Thanks for the warning red baron, and I hope some amazing doctor can work out a way to get these thins out of your friends g/son and all the other kids who have swallowed them.

I wouldn't have anything like that in my house if their were small children around, but then again you don't realise the dangers until it's too late.

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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Hendrix
andrei said: Great isn't it? Seeing boatloads of what is nothing more than human garbage turn up.....

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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26512 Australia	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #9 - Aug 6^th, 2012 at 7:42am red baron wrote on Aug 6^th, 2012 at 6:45am: Thanks for the leg up Spot of Borg even if there was a spike attached. The main thing is to keep these EXTREMELY DANGEROUS products aways from the kids. Sorry didnt mean to be spiky SOB
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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 #10 - Aug 6^th, 2012 at 6:45pm No worries Spot of Borg. We are on the same page, its all about the kids.
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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 #11 - Aug 6^th, 2012 at 7:01pm More information on this nasty product. Once the balls get in the body, the body's acids break down the balls surface and toxic materials that the balls are made of enter the body's system.
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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 #12 - Aug 6^th, 2012 at 7:20pm I've seen them in the shop. They are really cool. I think you can get them at national geographic.
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Shane B Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1473 Canberra Gender:	Re: Bucky Balls the most dangerous product ever Reply #13 - Aug 6^th, 2012 at 8:02pm They seem from the website they are made from rare earths - highly toxic.
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Reply #14 - 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.

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