What could swallowing glass marbles do to your health?

Question

I have a rich friend, he gives us money for doing silly things, stunts, eating strange things, all sorts, like jackass, but on another network. He has bet me $100000 if i can eat 50 glass marbles, I dont have to chew them, just swallow them, and I have one day to eat them all.

What would be the health issues involved in doing this?

Would the marbles come out with number 1's or number 2's?

I really want to do this one last stunt for him, maybe then he will let my family go, a lot of people think what we do is funny, but some of us have long term injuries from these stunts

I dont have to eat them all in one sitting, theres no other rules, I was thinking about eating a few, then drinking lots of water, or taking laxitives to get them out, I have 24 hours, I think thats plenty of time

Answer 1

What do you mean, "maybe then he will let my family go?"

Answer 2

If you feel you must, you must. But I gotta say, the fact that you don't know you can't piss out a marble doesn't give me much faith in your basic grounding in biology. I would also like to know what the hold is that this rich "friend" has on your family. The danger from this stunt, I believe, is a bowel impaction. The marbles will not under any condition digest. If they settle in your intestine at any one point, impact, form a blockage...well, things can get bad very quickly. This is a trickier stunt than it seems. I would not advise one at a time, but rather doing it as the mules do...drug mules, that is. encase several, perhaps as many as ten, in a latex balloon of some sort. How's your gag reflex? Take a laxative, or already have taken one, prime the pump. get things moving, so to speak. Take your marbles, your first batch. Drink water. Lots. Drink Metamucil. Eat, but lightly. Swallow more marbles, take another laxative. Follow this pattern. If need be, you get near the end, swallow the last bit, take something to speed your metabolism, then have an enema. But you need to keep the marbles bunched together, because a marble rolling along by itself can find a pouch in an intestine and eventually abcess...besides spoiling the count and losing you the bet. If you can avoid this do. If not, try it my way. Or take the best of what I've offered, and bits of pieces of whatever you pick up along the way. and make sure he gives you the full 24 hours.

Answer 3

I definitely hope I am not reading what I am reading. Swallowing glass marbles for the sake of money? Please, listen to me.. Nothing is more important than your life. There are cases of lung infections, and who knows, the unexpected may just happen.
Its not worth the money AT ALL. Not even if its a million pounds! Please do not toy with your life, and don't mess with it!
The most shocking thing is, you had stated 50 marbles, and they're made of GLASS.
Whoever can take that kind of torment into their own body? I hope I can knock some sense into you!
And you still take that rich somebody as your "friend"? If he is truly ur friend, he wouldn't ask you to do these weird stunts for him. Heed my advice- Do not listen to him.

Answer 4

BAD idea. One or two marbles is unlikely to do you any real harm, although even then I would advise against eating them. But FIFTY? Don't. Do. It. What happens if they grind each other into little sharp shards of glass in your stomach or make a traffic jam in your intestine? A doctor might be able to get them out, but seriously I don't think you want anything like that to happen.

Answer 5

This is the most idiotic thing I have ever seen on here. And that's saying a lot. I don't know if this is really happening (or if you are just looking for attention--probably).
God, this is retarded. If your friend told you to shoot yourself in the head for a million bucks, would you do it?