Holy Crap! Tree in Lung!

[VaporTrailx1]

A guy in Russia had a tree growing in his lung!

http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/04/13/firtree/

[Dimnos]

:eek :hypno :eek

[executioneer]

JUST KIDDING HIS NAME'S BOB

[Evil Robot]

Yeah bullshit he probably did when he was drunk.

[Tadao]

JUST KIDDING HIS NAME'S BOB

AND BOB'S YOUR UNCLE

[Mockery]

Have you ever seen the Tree Man? He puts the throat tree guy to shame:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Tree_Mans_branches_grow_back&in_article_id=453151&in_page_id=2
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/growthmanR_450x594.jpg
(and no, it's not a sideshow hoax or somethin)

[executioneer]

yeah but treeman's not an actual tree, let's see that dude photosynthesize something

[Zomboid]

Yeah, and tree man is old news!

[Sam]

Oh man it's really gross when you find out he isn't really made of tree. :(

[darkvare]

if it grew inside shouldn't it have roots not just a little branch?

[Zomboid]

Oh man it's really gross when you find out he isn't really made of tree. :(
Yeah, and I was really avoiding this thread because I knew someone would post a picture of that guy. Seeing a guy with warts all over his face and giant wart growths on his hands and feet is pretty fucking disgusting.

[executioneer]

HOOM HOM SOMEONE GET ME SOME COMPOUND W

[Tadao]

I saw an hour long documentary on treeman. It was really fascinating.

[Colonel Flagg]

I saw that too. Zom's right, the picture of treeman is old; he had reconstructive/removal surgery and can now use his hands. He still does not look "normal" but he can function in his society, which is a HUGE improvement.

And, yes Willie, bathing in Compound W comes to mind when looking at his affliction. Ouch!

And, on topic, I'm skeptical - a green pine tree inside a dark lung? :confused

[ZeldaQueen]

Holy heck, I never saw treeman before. He reminds me of the cast of Freaks!

And wow, he swallowed a bud and that's how it got there? That's like something you tell a kid to scare them. "Careful if you swallow a seed Timmy, or it'll grow into a tree in your stomach!"

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

I wrote about Dede the Tree Man and Ralph Krooner, a gentleman from the 50's with the same condition in treatment, over on my blog way back when Tree Man was just hitting the news. You can see the impact Dede's isolation had on the progress of the condition. http://thehumanmarvels.com/?p=136

I've come across people growing horns, people covered with moss and fungus, people infested with insects and maggots and even people with masses of vegetation removed from their intestine. Hell, I've seen cases of fetus in fetu - where a malformed being has resided in the abdomen or cranium of a sibling for decades.

[Kitsa]

Wasn't there a lady back in the mid-90s who inexplicably had a pork chop bone embedded in a buttcheek? I remember a radio interview with her where she claimed she never sat on one.

[Aaarg]

if it grew inside shouldn't it have roots not just a little branch?

that's what i was thinking. seeds don't grow into branches!

[Colonel Flagg]

Wasn't there a lady back in the mid-90s who inexplicably had a pork chop bone embedded in a buttcheek? I remember a radio interview with her where she claimed she never sat on one.

I remember reading about people who actually extrude metallic filaments from their skin - the medical community was skeptical, but apparently there is a plausible etiology behind it. However, pork out of a buttcheek ... hmmm ... I'm betting against an intraspecies extrudate.

[Colonel Flagg]

I wrote about Dede the Tree Man and Ralph Krooner, a gentleman from the 50's with the same condition in treatment, over on my blog way back when Tree Man was just hitting the news. You can see the impact Dede's isolation had on the progress of the condition. http://thehumanmarvels.com/?p=136

Sorry I missed this. Very succinct evaluation and comparison, Mr. P. Thank you.

[ZeldaQueen]

Wasn't there a lady back in the mid-90s who inexplicably had a pork chop bone embedded in a buttcheek? I remember a radio interview with her where she claimed she never sat on one.
Can she account for every time she got drunk? :\

[Jeanette X]

Pfft. Nothing compared to this:
http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69700335&highlight=gawd

[Chojin]

I keep thinking this thread is called "Holy crap! Tree in luigi"

[ZeldaQueen]

If it were December, I'd wonder if it got there because there was a colony of tiny people living in those lungs celebrating Christmas. :\

[Emu]

You know this didn't happen and that website is a tabloid, right

[executioneer]

it doesn't really SEEM like a tabloid, but it is a russian news site, so i'd still doubt the truthfulness of it quite a handful

[Emu]

http://www.mosnews.com/politics/2009/03/06/147/

this is one of their front page articles. this is the future of journalism

[executioneer]

ehh i've seen worse on yahoo news :shrug

[Emu]

"Additionally, Gloda predicted that almost every country will be ruled by women in 2020."

[ZeldaQueen]

"Additionally, Gloda predicted that almost every country will be ruled by women in 2020."
What's so farfetched about that? ;)

[LordSappington]

We got the damn tanks, lady. >:

[Esuohlim]

did they find bat boy in his lung too

[Babs]

THE TREES WANT ONLY HIS OXYGEN

[Evil Robot]

This is bullshit he was faking it.

[Dimnos]

I cant believe you people. Russians would never lie! >:

[ZeldaQueen]

We got the damn tanks, lady. >:
We can withhold the sex. You ever hear of Lysistrata? :orgasm

[Dixie]

Withholding sex is stupid.
It leads to everyone being bitchy.
I distinctly remember a study a few years ago that said women who allow seminal fluid to be deposited in their vaginas are happier.
And for once, I'm serious.

[Tadao]

So this tree lung thing seems to be in the news today. I wanna see the xrays before I even consider believing it.