Over in New Zealand, a 13 year old boy is learning a serious lesson.
Don't swallow magnets!
He says he bought from Temu (although that online retailer has yet to confirm that) “four linear chains of magnets” stuck together, made up of “approximately 80–100 5x2mm high-power (neodymium) magnets.”
They are not disclosing the name of this child, and the New Zealand Medical Journal did not say why on earth he swallowed up to 100 magnets. The journal did say that “accessibility to high-power magnets is a rising concern for our [pediatric] population, which may be due to the ability to purchase from online marketplaces at inexpensive prices.”
He ate the magnets, complained of abdominal pain four days later, and then wound up in the hospital for eight days after surgery that required his bowel to be cut in sections to get the magnets out.
And unlike the kids who swallow a quarter and pass two dimes and a nickel, the magnets stayed put because...get this...they were stuck together! And that ain't gonna pass.
Word is, this is one of those daggone TikTok games, a popular teen challenge for the easily-distracted. Way past my teens, I cannot envision any amount of peer pressure that would have led me to such foolishness, but if you know a kid who is easily suggestible, please get a hundred super-strong magnets and show them what they look like on top of each other and ask him (it's always a he) how he thinks that mess of earth metal is going to leave his colon:
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