Boy swallows toy magnets, becomes X-Mens Magneto in freak accident: He burst out crying

Many young kids can only dream of being a Marvel character, but one boy learned the hard way that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.An 8-year-old accidentally swallowed a magnetic toy from Amazon, effectively turning him into X-Men’s Magneto, Kennedy News and Media reported.Louise Mcfarlane gave her son, Junior Gallon, a set of magnetic building balls two years ago, and up until the incident he had only used them for their intended purpose — to build models.But on Dec.22, Gallon decided to pretend that he had a tongue piercing, placing two of the magnets in his set on either side of his oral appendage.He called to his mom to confess that he accidentally swallowed the magnets, and Mcfarlane, 36, explained that the two magnetic balls — which were “very small and very powerful” — had “shot” to the back of his throat.“Junior had come out of his room and said, ‘Mummy, I’ve got an emergency,'” Mcfarlane, from England, shared.

“I went in and he said he swallowed two of these magnets.He burst out crying.“He said he thought it would be ‘cool’ having a tongue piercing.

He had tried to make it look like a tongue piercing and as soon as he had done that, they pinged off his tongue and popped together,” she added.Mcfarlane noted that they always tell him not to put the magnets in his mouth.but “obviously he panicked when he swallowed them because he knew it was the wrong thing to do.”She rushed her son to the hospital, where an X-ray revealed the magnets clumped together in his stomach.“He was lucky they pinned together before he swallowed them; it could’ve been a completely different story,” the mom of two shared.The doctors expressed grave concern that the magnets might attach on opposite sides of the organ, which could be disastrous, and if the balls had been jagged, Gallon’s bowel could have been ripped open.The boy was kept overnight at the hospital, and the following day a follow-up X-ray showed that the magnets moved t...