Surgeons at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, reported on three cases of blowgun darts being lodged in the throats of teenagers, who were brought to their hospital during a span of four months. Kids have been following instructions spreading across the internet to make their own blowguns, and then shooting each other with needles.

The full report appears in the medical journal Pediatrics.

Click here to see the X-rays of one case, showing clearly the inhaled needle in the boy’s windpipe. Perhaps predictably, the idiot sucked when he should have blown out!

 
Walz PC et al. The Internet, Adolescent Males, and Homemade Blowgun Darts: A Recipe for Foreign Body Aspiration. Pediatrics doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-3340