I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly ....
Maybe she'll die.

The "pique" of swallowing strange objects is not too common but not actually what could be called "rare." Most settle for things like coins or marbles and such that go down fairly easily, although paper clips and small nails seem to have some favor among practitioners.

Now if the kid in the previous post had swallowed the pit bull, that would probably be real NEWS.

John