I cannot tell you where this happened or how I know, but it’s a true story that happened last night.

An emaciated illegal male checked into a hospital emergency room yesterday sometime, complaining of excruciating pain in his digestive tract.

He was passing blood in his urine and from his rectum.

Diagnostic tests revealed something in his digestive tract that was not normal. I’ll tell you what it was later.

He was taken to surgery and operated on, at which time a tape worm measuring almost 45 inches was removed from his gut.

The tissue surrounding the tape worm was scraped to be checked for illegal drugs.

The tapeworm, before meeting its demise in a bucket of alcohol, was dissected enough to get any fluid from it to send off to see if it had illegal drugs in it.

The theory is this man was a drug mule, someone who swallows plastic bags of drugs to smuggle into a country and then hopes to pass the bags as nature takes its course.

This man’s problem was his tapeworm was eating all his drugs and it finally got big enough to make him sick enough to risk going to a hospital and being caught as an illegal.

Big deal on being caught. His life was saved and he’ll probably get deported, only to try again, but the worm had done so much damage to him he probably will never be able to eat regularly again.