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Neil
14-Apr-2009, 04:38 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1169861/Shocked-Russian-surgeons-open-man-thought-tumour--FIR-TREE-inside-lung.html
Mr.G
15-Apr-2009, 02:32 AM
Ok that is messed up. Is the daily mail a REAL newspaper in England or like our Star of Globe???
AcesandEights
15-Apr-2009, 03:12 AM
I've heard, read and seen reports of things like this happening, but not with...trees. Sounds like Neil pulled another story from his infamous 'Colander Files (http://forum.homepageofthedead.com/showthread.php?t=13500)'. ;)
Chic Freak
16-Apr-2009, 10:55 AM
Ok that is messed up. Is the daily mail a REAL newspaper in England or like our Star of Globe???

Good question!

The Daily Mail is a sack of crap (often colloquially referred to as 'The Daily Nazi') and I find it very difficult to believe that a fir tree could grow in a human lung :/ Surely this is a hoax?
Neil
16-Apr-2009, 01:52 PM
Good question!

The Daily Mail is a sack of crap (often colloquially referred to as 'The Daily Nazi') and I find it very difficult to believe that a fir tree could grow in a human lung :/ Surely this is a hoax?

OK if The Mail isn't to your liking...
Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5152953/Surgeons-find-fir-tree-growing-inside-patients-lung.html
BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8000000/newsid_8000000/8000046.stm
slickwilly13
16-Apr-2009, 03:09 PM
Seeds need a damp and warm place to germinate.
EvilNed
16-Apr-2009, 04:10 PM
And most seeds need light too, don't they?
AcesandEights
16-Apr-2009, 04:49 PM
And most seeds need light too, don't they?

Mold, spores, fungus, I buy and have read about before multiple times...but a tree seems too complex, especially to get to the point where it's sprouting needles. I would think at some point during or just after germination the whole process would stop, but now I want to read up on the topic.
Neil
16-Apr-2009, 05:01 PM
And most seeds need light too, don't they?

Put a seed underground it will grow... It's dark down there!
MikePizzoff
16-Apr-2009, 07:12 PM
:rockbrow:

Is it just me or does that X-ray photo look completely fake?
EvilNed
16-Apr-2009, 08:01 PM
Put a seed underground it will grow... It's dark down there!

Shit, if this turns out to be true, then this is so scary.

Imagine if this happened to you 500 years ago. You'd be walking around in constant pain for the rest of your life, with that tree getting bigger and bigger. Wowzer...
AcesandEights
16-Apr-2009, 08:09 PM
Shit, if this turns out to be true, then this is so scary.

Imagine if this happened to you 500 years ago. You'd be walking around in constant pain for the rest of your life, with that tree getting bigger and bigger. Wowzer...

Dude. what's scares me is there have been supposedly documented cases of mold and fungi growing inside of people...and even...in their brains!


/cues dramatic music.


:rockbrow:

Is it just me or does that X-ray photo look completely fake?

You can't fake an x-ray!

http://www.humorgazette.com/images/xray-jesus.jpg
Chic Freak
16-Apr-2009, 08:58 PM
OK if The Mail isn't to your liking...
Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5152953/Surgeons-find-fir-tree-growing-inside-patients-lung.html
BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8000000/newsid_8000000/8000046.stm

I didn't mean the Mail had set up the hoax, I meant that maybe the "victim" did... somehow. I have already seen this story being reported elsewhere ;)
major jay
17-Apr-2009, 11:37 AM
Imagine if this happened to you 500 years ago. You'd be walking around in constant pain for the rest of your life, with that tree getting bigger and bigger. Wowzer...

But your breath would smell great!