(CBS News) BEIJING, China A young Chinese woman is undergoing medical checks in Beijing after reportedly consuming soil for 11 years.
China Central Television reported on Friday that the parents of 18-year-old Baobao brought her from her home in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the capital to find out why she enjoyed eating dirt.
Baobao told CCTV that she had developed her dirt-eating habit at the age of seven, consuming soil attached to grass roots.
She said that she now preferred the taste of yellow mud, as it did not contain sand or tree debris.
During the interview, Baobao estimated she had eaten about three tons of soil since she was first stricken by the urge to eat earth.
A doctor told CCTV that the hospital was awaiting results of a series of medical tests to help determine the cause of the girl's taste for dirt.
Baobao's addiction has had serious implications for her neighbour's roof, made from mud which is traditionally used as a weather resistant material.
According to CCTV, the young woman could not stop eating the roof and the neighbour's house is now almost demolished.
___________________
"I played 12.30 til close at 3am at the club (Antro), following on from an Australian dj,
which seemed unusual in deepest Texas." - Judge Jules
May-13-2006 04:07
MiSSyM
xxx
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: MELBOURNE
I feel sorry for her, she started eating it at 7 years old.
WTF.
but still she should know better by now.
I cant believe she hasnt gotten sick from it all!
thats some fucked up shit.
May-13-2006 04:13
DJ_Ballistic
Nu-NRG Addict
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia
lol nice story,
i'd love to see someone eat their neighbours house
___________________
May-13-2006 04:15
MiSSyM
xxx
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: MELBOURNE
Maybe her parents should just make a playpen in the backyard, fill it with all dirt & leave her like a stray animal. How the heck could her parents not realise & do something abour her eating dirt for all these years.
I think the parents need to be forced to eat the dirt too.
May-13-2006 04:20
Cetra³
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Adelaide
I don't know what's funnier, the fact that she eats dirt or the fact she demolished her neighbour's house
May-13-2006 05:11
Aesthetic
- ---(ps3.addicted)--- -
Registered: Jul 2002
Location: somewhere between the melody and the pads
Yeah, right. Tathi eat's shit and you guys say nothing.
anyone here like eating dirt?
