A 48-year-old woman is accused of drinking alcohol in a store, returning the next day to steal a bottle of Chardonnay, then allegedly concealing it internally before she was arrested and charged
A woman has been accused of stealing a bottle of wine and hiding it inside a body cavity. The 48-year-old, from Traverse City, Michigan, USA, is alleged to have drank the alcohol in a store before concealing it internally over the weekend.
Police said the woman was spotted drinking a bottle of alcohol inside the store at around 9am. She was then reportedly taken to Munson Medical Center, Michigan, for treatment.
The woman is said to have returned to the same store the next day and allegedly took a bottle of Chardonnay. Employees later stopped her but were unable to locate the missing bottle of wine.
Police then arrested the woman and said they recovered the bottle during a cavity search, Up North Live ABC reported.
The woman is being charged with two counts of retail fraud, one count of smuggling and one charge of trespassing. Hiding or getting objects inside body cavities is nothing new.
Earlier this year, doctors in Brazil treated a man who had a 2kg metal dumbbell stuck in his rectum. The 54-year-old man initially presented “with an initial complaint of cramping abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting in small volume, and stopping of evacuation for approximately two days” — meaning he was unable to pass stool for 48 hours.
The metallic dumbbell was 20cm in length and weighed approximately 2 kilograms (or 4.4 pounds), the Daily Star previously reported. Reports published in 2022 suggest the man had initially tried to remove the dumbbell himself, however, after proving unsuccessful in his attempt, he went to Emergency Care in a hospital in Manaus in northwestern Brazil to seek medical intervention.
For two days, the middle-aged man had the 2kg dumbbell stuck in his rectum, post which he sought professional help.
On admission to the hospital, doctors performed a physical examination during which the man was “clinically stable” but presented with a distended abdomen, with the cause of the problem remaining unknown.
Then, a “digital rectal examination” was performed, and according to the man’s case report published in Science Direct, “the patient was uncooperative during the examination”.
Medics then ordered an X-ray which finally revealed the cause of the problem — a 20cm-long piece of gym equipment had been inserted through the anus and was now lodged where the colon meets the rectum.
Medical professionals cited the case to be of a sexual nature, as reported in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, as they disclosed: “Retained rectal objects represent a rare complaint in the emergency room, affecting mainly males between 20 and 40 years, with most objects of a sexual nature.”
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