Fork with a Side of Spoon

The 78 forks and spoons that surgeons found inside the woman's body

After marrying buildings, this is one of the more bizarre obsessions I've come across in awhile.

From the Independent (UK)...

Margaret Daalman came to hospital complaining of stomach ache - and one glance at her X-ray shows why. Surgeons in Rotterdam in the Netherlands were flabbergasted when X-rays showed 78 different items of cutlery in the 52-year-old woman's stomach.

They rushed her to surgery in a desperate attempt to remove the dozens of forks and spoons trapped inside her body one by one. 'She seems to have been suffering from some sort of obsession and every time she sat down for a meal she would ignore the food and eat the cutlery,' said one medic.

The astonishing images were actually taken over 30 years ago - but they were published for the first time this week in a Dutch medical magazine.

They said she had been diagnosed as suffering from a borderline personality disorder that left her with an urge to eat forks and spoons. She never ate knives, however - and could not explain why not.