Gold Swallowed

A two-hour-long surgery was performed on the buffalo, and it had to undergo 60-65 stitches following which doctors retrieved the ornament from its stomach.

Devi, a resident of Brahampuri, tried to catch the accused, Nasir (34), but he then snatched her purse and tried to flee, the officer said.

A snake recently had to be rescued in the United States after it mistook a pair of golf balls for chicken eggs, ate them both and got stuck in a fence.

The Chennai Air Customs has seized 4.15 kg gold worth over Rs 2.17 crore at the Chennai airport and arrested seven people after busting a smuggling racket, in which the passengers were found to have swallowed capsules of gold paste wrapped with polythene/rubber cover.

The police successfully deployed an unusual technique to retrieve a gold chain that a thief had swallowed while officers were in hot pursuit -- they force-fed him more than 40 bananas.

The Mumbai police force-fed four dozen bananas to a chain-snatcher to recover a stolen gold chain he had swallowed to escape public wrath, an officer said in Mumbai on Saturday.

If you think you're having a bad day, just pause to think of Anil Yadav. The 30-year-old may soon have to excrete out a 2.5-tola gold mangalsutra, with a large pendant, that he had stolen and then swallowed to avoid getting arrested.

One reason for the jump was that customs and police have got wise to some of the tricks used to bring in gold, such as getting human mules to swallow nuggets or in hiding gold bars in dead cows.

Indian gold smugglers are adopting the methods of drug couriers to sidestep the government curbs, stashing gold in imported vehicles and even using mules who swallow nuggets to try to get them past airport security.

Serena Williams survived the Wimbledon Court Two trap that swallowed sister Venus and pledged to ease her pain by successfully defending their Olympic doubles gold next month.

If you can't dispose of it, devour it, thought the young chain snatcher in a bid to get rid of the spoils of his misadventure, as he was cornered by a crowd of people after he grabbed a gold chain from a woman's neck. And he did. But for the six days that followed, his swallowing brought him down on his, well, haunches, and put cops in a tight spot...

A two-hour-long surgery was performed on the buffalo, and it had to undergo 60-65 stitches following which doctors retrieved the ornament from its stomach.

Devi, a resident of Brahampuri, tried to catch the accused, Nasir (34), but he then snatched her purse and tried to flee, the officer said.

A snake recently had to be rescued in the United States after it mistook a pair of golf balls for chicken eggs, ate them both and got stuck in a fence.

The Chennai Air Customs has seized 4.15 kg gold worth over Rs 2.17 crore at the Chennai airport and arrested seven people after busting a smuggling racket, in which the passengers were found to have swallowed capsules of gold paste wrapped with polythene/rubber cover.

The police successfully deployed an unusual technique to retrieve a gold chain that a thief had swallowed while officers were in hot pursuit -- they force-fed him more than 40 bananas.

The Mumbai police force-fed four dozen bananas to a chain-snatcher to recover a stolen gold chain he had swallowed to escape public wrath, an officer said in Mumbai on Saturday.

If you think you're having a bad day, just pause to think of Anil Yadav. The 30-year-old may soon have to excrete out a 2.5-tola gold mangalsutra, with a large pendant, that he had stolen and then swallowed to avoid getting arrested.

One reason for the jump was that customs and police have got wise to some of the tricks used to bring in gold, such as getting human mules to swallow nuggets or in hiding gold bars in dead cows.

Indian gold smugglers are adopting the methods of drug couriers to sidestep the government curbs, stashing gold in imported vehicles and even using mules who swallow nuggets to try to get them past airport security.

Serena Williams survived the Wimbledon Court Two trap that swallowed sister Venus and pledged to ease her pain by successfully defending their Olympic doubles gold next month.

If you can't dispose of it, devour it, thought the young chain snatcher in a bid to get rid of the spoils of his misadventure, as he was cornered by a crowd of people after he grabbed a gold chain from a woman's neck. And he did. But for the six days that followed, his swallowing brought him down on his, well, haunches, and put cops in a tight spot...