# So you can grow a tree **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 15, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193 "2009-04-15T06:57:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/1 "2009-04-15T06:57:09Z")
> **[Fox News - Breaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines | Photos & News...](https://www.foxnews.com/)** > > Breaking News, Latest News and Current News from FOXNews.com. Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. > **Surgeons in Russia thought they were going to remove a cancerous tumor from a 28-year-old patient – but instead they found a 5-centimeter tree growing inside his lung.** > It happened in Russia’s Urals region while [doctors](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514955,00.html#) were operating on Artyom Sidorkin, the Russian newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda Daily reported Monday. > Doctors suspected Sidorkin had cancer after he complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been [coughing](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514955,00.html#) up blood. > “I blinked three times and thought I was seeing things,” Surgeon Vladimir Kamashev told the newspaper. > Doctors believe Sidorkin somehow inhaled a seed, which later sprouted inside his [lung](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514955,00.html#). > The spruce, which was touching the man’s capillaries and causing severe pain, was removed > > [Click here to read more and a see a photo from mosnews.com](http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/04/13/firtree/). [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tree+in+lung&aq=f&oq=](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tree+in+lung&aq=f&oq=) ---
**Author:** ![psphinx81](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@psphinx81](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psphinx81)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/2 "2009-04-15T06:57:58Z")
wtf ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/3 "2009-04-15T07:02:06Z")
if you eat a watermelon seed, you’re gonna grow one in your stomach… ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/4 "2009-04-15T07:10:22Z")
“Hey McFly! Why don’t you make like a tree and split!” ---
**Author:** ![Eazy716](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eazy716/32/7443_2.png) [@Eazy716](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Eazy716)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/5 "2009-04-15T07:10:56Z")
:wtf: ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/6 "2009-04-15T07:11:13Z")
It’s on Fox News so I’m sure it’s fake. They’ll blame Obama for it somehow. ---
**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/7 "2009-04-15T07:12:15Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > It’s on Fox News so I’m sure it’s fake. They’ll blame Obama for it somehow. you know the google link with all the other links(not fox news) was for you \<3 ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/8 "2009-04-15T07:13:36Z")
> [@justa4door](#): > > you know the google link with all the other links(not fox news) was for you \<3 Doesn’t matter. Once Fox News reports on a story, even if it’s being covered by other news agencies, the story is deemed fake. ---
**Author:** ![j\_espo1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/j_espo1/32/7291_2.png) [@j\_espo1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/j_espo1)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/9 "2009-04-15T07:13:37Z")
In soviet russia, tree grows inside YOU. :gotme: ---
**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/10 "2009-04-15T07:14:21Z")
lol… dam ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/11 "2009-04-15T07:17:15Z")
> [@justa4door](#): > > lol… dam I know, it’s tough, but that’s what the Daily Show told me and they are the only place I trust for my news. /GenY ---
**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/12 "2009-04-15T07:18:49Z")
HA ---
**Author:** ![PureXTC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/purextc/32/5223_2.png) [@PureXTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PureXTC)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/13 "2009-04-15T09:18:40Z")
> [@Paulo](#): > > “Hey McFly! Why don’t you make like a tree and split!” Hey McFly! Why don’t you make like a tree and GET OUTTA HERE! ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/14 "2009-04-15T09:22:10Z")
that’s some freeky shit ---
**Author:** ![Clean\_Baldy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/clean_baldy/32/7308_2.png) [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/15 "2009-04-15T10:04:22Z")
So, they decided to take out the lung as well just to study it? “Hey, umm… we found a tree growing in your lung. We decided since you have two lungs we would take out the other one with the tree to show our friends.” ---
**Author:** ![traumadog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@traumadog](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/traumadog)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/16 "2009-04-15T10:45:17Z")
Wondered how they found this out… did he spit up some fir balls? Was it a bark-ing cough? How wood one find out? Any other ways to get to the root of the problem? Hey, at least the docs weren’t so in-grained to keep from making the diagnosis. Perhaps this is a new branch of medicine? ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/17 "2009-04-15T13:01:53Z")
> [@traumadog](#): > > Wondered how they found this out… did he spit up some fir balls? Was it a bark-ing cough? How wood one find out? Any other ways to get to the root of the problem? > > Hey, at least the docs weren’t so in-grained to keep from making the diagnosis. Perhaps this is a new branch of medicine? :picard: ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/18 "2009-04-15T13:10:50Z")
Puns… the lowest form of comedy. ---
**Author:** ![BREETIME](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/breetime/32/5214_2.png) [@BREETIME](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BREETIME)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-can-grow-a-tree/66193/19 "2009-04-15T13:25:39Z")
where the red fern grows