HUMAN OSTRICH
GLASS CONSUMED WITH EASE. A Durban tearoom recently entertained a Truman “ostrich.” He was Mr J. Coetzee, of Christiana, Transvaal. Mr Coetzee walked into the tearoom and asked for tea and sandwiches. When he was served with these he asked for glass. The proprietor thought he was mad, but gave him some old electric light globes. Mr Coetzee broke these up and ate them. He washed the glass down with sandwich and tea. He then had some more glass and a safety razor blade. He finished his tea by bending an Bin nail between his teeth. He claimed that this was good exercise for the jaws. He said he had been eating glass since he was three, yet had never suffered from any trouble. When he was 13 he received a thrashing from his mother for eating all the tumblers in the house.—“ Natal Mercury”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1939, Page 11
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