A man in Argentina died from peritonitis after holding in gas during a visit with his girlfriend's mother.
A man in Argentina died from peritonitis after holding in gas during a visit with his girlfriend's mother.
On 3 August 2017, the satirical web site 8Shit published appeared to claim that a man in Argentina had died after holding in gas during a visit with his girlfriendâ€™s mother. < Jorge Caradeculito went to visit his girlfriend at lunch and had lunch with her and her mother. Unfortunately, the food was not was he was used to eat. Shortly after, he got the need to start farting, but he didnâ€™t want to have an embarrassing moment in his girlfriendâ€™s house, so he started holding them. > The article cites a Dr. Jesus Cazares as saying that the cause of death was peritonitis, caused by â€œdiverticula in the large intestine.â€ The last name of the deceased is an offensive phrase in Spanish, which can be (somewhat more politely) translated as â€œlittle ass face,â€ and the article bears other hallmarks of being fake: the web site describes itself as a â€œsatire and humor siteâ€; the man is said to have lived in Argentina, but no city is mentioned; in one instance the man is named as â€œJorge,â€ and in another he is given the Anglicized â€œGeorge.â€ This fake story can be traced back to a 31 July article on the Brazilian web site O Observador, which says the death took place in San Carlos, Mexico (not Argentina), and from there back to a 27 July article on the Dominican web site Informate Diario. The earliest iteration of the story that we could find was a 20 July post on MeMedios Obregon, a Mexican Facebook page that posts memes, ads for fitness supplements and smoothies, along with satirical vignettes about women getting seven days off work each month for their periods, and women being unfaithful because they didnâ€™t play with Ken dolls as children. The original Facebook post about the man who died does not cite any sources for the anecdote, does not name an author, does not say when the death is purported to have taken place, and we could find no corroborating news reports from before 20 July 2017. Finally, MeMedios Obregon added this note to the story: < The population is asked to analyze and determine which is more important: life or having an embarrassing moment. > This further demonstrates that the fictional plight of â€œJorgeâ€ is just a tall tale with a moral lesson (a man killed by his own shame in the presence of his girlfriendâ€™s mother) rather than an accurate description of events that actually took place â€” in Mexico, Argentina, or anywhere else.
"fart" AND "death"