KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - "Indian police forced a thief to gobble down 40 bananas in a few hours, hoping they would force him to excrete a gold necklace he had snatched and swallowed.
Sheikh Mohsin, 35, grabbed the 45,000-rupee (546 pounds) necklace from a woman in the eastern city of Kolkata on Friday and popped it into his mouth when police and local residents caught him.
"He denied swallowing it at all, but an X-ray conducted in a hospital revealed the necklace was very much in his stomach," Ajay Kumar, a leading city detective, told Reuters.
"Doctors advised us to feed him with bananas as it worked like a natural purgative," another officer said, trying to keep awake after staying up all night monitoring Mohsin's motions."
Mr. Moshin was decidedly lucky his purloined necklace trick was undertaken in India. They didn't refer to The Black Hole of Calcutta (real name and not the silly new version foisted on us by the let's-change-the-name -of-virtually EVERYTHING liberal movement sweeping the globe) as such because it was a cool place to hang and chill, but it is not china where they'd simply have sliced the bugger open, end of rumpus. Interesting to note that stool softeners in Calcutta still come in long yellow containers and that the local "physicians" have yet to discover modern medicine. Luckily, or so it would appear, local monkey tribes have not heard of such punishment or they'd be arriving en masse to swallow gold at every opportunity.
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