Personal Injury Law

Texas teen eats toxic pig testicles on a dare

By Dr. Doug Powell

High school biology classes often involve dissections. I distinctly remember the day my teacher, Mr. Deluca, brought in the fetal pigs. My partner was queezy at the thought of cutting open the little piggys, so I ended up doing most of the work, and truthfully was unphased by the dissection apart from the strong smell of formaldehyde in the classroom.

A teenage boy in Texas was less put-off by the smell of formaldehyde when he ate the testicles from a fetal pig on a dare during the class dissection, reports the Dallas Morning News.

Last week at Shepton High School in Plano, a ninth-grader agreed to eat parts of a fetal pig – and not just any parts – for $50. [The boy] gulped them down one at a time, he said, trying not to bite down.

The 15-year old boy, explained,

"It was just like swallowing a pill. It wasn't that bad."

School officials, who declined to comment, apparently took a different view, especially because the pigs are soaked in formaldehyde, a toxic chemical used to preserve the tissue.

The boy was sent to the hospital, but appears fine, commenting,

"It wasn't very smart.'

Full post as published by BarfBlog on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).