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Man with tree growing in his lung?

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7343614

I'll have to cry bullshit on this.

I'd be thinking that without light there'd be nothing promoting the tree to sprout.

Exactly. Maybe because he's Russian, he has pasty translucent skin.

Seed sprout in the dark when it's warm enough, it's the growing thereafter which is influenced by light.

No, I think there's enough light in a human lung to sustain plant growth.

How else do you explain my thriving dangleberries?

maybe he just took a really big sniff of a christmas tree, inhaling a two inch section which went up his nose, round a few wee bends and down into his lung whereby it nestled in amongst some lungy bits. So it didn't really grow there, just settled. Like an immigrant sort of.

Heh, lol etc

It looks a little too clean in the video. Surely the body would treat it as an infection and throw white blood cells at it and cover it in gopp? The entire thing strikes me like that Blue Jam sketch of the unnecessary surgery man. "I've got a sausage in my eye!"

Maybe his lungs were pining to see the outside world & were overjoyed when the evergreen invader arrived.

hmm, the whole story needles me a bit

Yeah, I think it's better if we leave it for now.

For that to happen it would rather require that his lungs be full of blood. At that point I fear he has a more pressing issue.

after watching it again, I'm growing rather frond of it.

I read a debunk of this a few days ago. Not only could a seed not sprout in his lung, but with no light you'd get no green colouration as the chlorophyll wouldn't be active. The only conclusion was that he inhaled the entire lump, which sounds surprising but there are recorded cases of similar things happening with objects of the same size. Usually caused by someone having a severe coughing fit whilst eating and a stuff ending up being inhaled, but also industrial accidents. I wonder if he worked around trees.

Your Science ruins everything! EVERYTHING!

He's robbing the world of magic!

yeah, it's just not FIR!

*packs trunk*

I'm branching out

Whereas I'm turning in on myself, going back to my roots.

I'm sure you'll have a ball.

_{(I said ball like a tree's root ball)}

*draws a circle of salt around The Internets Infamous Richard Gaywood*

I gots him Dimrill! Now let's meld our magic beans and have done with him

There are species which will form green chlorophyll even in the absence of light. They are pretty much exclusively aquatic plants (they grow that way because the water in the stormy season is so clouded with muck that it is entirely opaque, but the plant knows that at the end of the season the light will begin to filter through again) rather than firs though.

I'll have no trunk with this kind of carry on.

Ah, the evergreen Craster, font of anti-gaywood knowledge

Gaywood's bark is wor*BANG!*

*slumps*

Beech oak pine birch hazel hawthorn bark trunk branch twig wood root knell grotto copse forest larch THE LARCH redwood trees TREES TREES FOR FUCKS SAKE TREES MAN!

He's sycamore than most.

What's that? Couldn't see the trees for my wood

Ah, yes, fair enough. This is clearly a chunk of fir tree though

*gropes for a wood/organ joke*

Zardoz? Take it man...

Ugh ugh, is that all you got? Ugh ugh

TREES CAN GROW IN LUNGZ>!>!???

SHIT TREES GORING IN ME FUCKING LUNGZ!!>!>!!!

/anxiety attack

I should never have swallowed those apple pips...

Don't be so sappy.

I've just twigged! Tree puns! Again!

You wooden't let it ply.

*orders 100 gallons of Agent Orange from Army Surplus*

Not as nice as Fentimans dude.

Please don't feel saw.

Keep going and you'll be in lumber, jack!

This place sickens me.

*logs off*

Of course if the tree had grown enough to bear fruit, I'm sure it'd be... *chuckle*... a chestnut tree. OH! OH!!

You kill you.