Doctors operating on 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin was expecting to find a tumor in one of his lungs, but they got a big, green surprise during the surgery:
Doctors x-rayed his chest and found a tumor in one of the lungs. Suspecting cancer, they made a decision to perform biopsy, but when they cut the tissue, they were amazed to see green needles in the cut.
“I blinked three times, and thought I was seeing things. Then I called the assistant to have a look,” says Vladimir Kamashev, doctor at the Udmurtian Cancer Center.
The five-centimeter branch was removed from the patient’s body. [...]
It is obvious that a five-centimeter branch is too large to be inhaled or swallowed, doctors say. They suggest that the patient might have inhaled a small bud, which then started to grow inside his body.
http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/04/13/firtree/ (Photo: Komsomolskaya Pravda)
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[Sorry, but this thread was pining for a good pun.]
---Then he chops down a 50' tree, which, if left standing would have eliminated much more carbon in the atmosphere in the long run than that ridiculous toy.
That said, I'm a firm believer in fake trees myself and I've been embroiled in an ongoing argument with my boyfriend about the relative carbon footprint of cutting and hauling fresh trees every year as opposed to the one time manufacture (out of metal and petroleum) and transportation of a tree that may last more than a decade.
Mine is fantastic looking and I couldn't be more happy with it personally.