A man has been hold in a poo for over 40 days now , seriously risking his own wellness .
Lamarr Chambers was force over by law on the January 17 after a chase in Essex , UK , the BBC story . When they look in his car " officers saw him moving his read/write head towards his hand as if he was eating something , " prosecutor Kathy Wilson say .
Though the defendant says this was chicken , the law believe he has swallowed drugs . He has since been placed in a cell with a modified privy that would allow the police to search for any evidence in his stool .
Since his arrest he has gone on a " toilet rap " and is refusing to take a crap , curtail his repast intake in edict to prevent the inevitable according to prosecutors , though his refutation attorney contend he is truly try out to evacuate his gut .
A magistrate court has been tell apart that Chambers , 24 , has refused laxatives and an X - beam . He has smashed the previous disc of obtain in a bowel movement in constabulary custody , which is believed to be 32 days , according to the BBC .
The Margaret Court hasbeen tell by his defensethat he has not been given privacy for the duration of his arrest .
" There ’s the potential of something going seriously faulty . We ’re in an arena of jeopardy of last . "
So how dangerous is this ?
Mr Chambers has been eating and wassail during this time , so starvation may not be the biggest risk to his health . However , there are other problems that could lift .
The first obvious problem is that if hehasswallowed drug , as the pursuance believes , the container could burst and glut his system , risking an overdose . sacrifice that he is charge with furnish snap cocain and diacetylmorphine , that would be very bad for his health indeed .
If the dish does n’t burst , or it work out he was just eating poulet , that does n’t intend he ’s in the readable .
In 2015 a adolescent little girl with a phobia of toilets break down afterholding in a bowel movement for eight calendar week . The physique - up led to her chest cavity becoming compressed and finally she died of a heart blast .
A post - mortem reveal she had a " monumental denotation of the large bowel ” , though an inquest submit that her life could have been saved if she had n’t refused aesculapian interposition .
Assuming it does n’t get to that stage , he will still stomach as his stools deliver to his colon where the pee will be reabsorb . The feces will become indurate and as a outcome , he could get an impacted intestine , which could require surgery .
His defense says that the prosecution does n’t actually need the ordure to make their casing and that cause it would just be the " cherry on the cake " .
