Student eats house key

A drunk student swallowed his door key in a bizarre effort to carry on partying, after friends tried to make him return home.

According to reports, Bournemouth student Chris Foster had got through six beers, vodka and whisky when his friends thought he was too drunk to carry on with the night.

When they tried to make him return home, the 18-year-old found a novel way to stay out late, and swallowed his door key, the Daily Mirror said last week.

According to the paper, he slept on a friend’s sofa that night, and couldn’t remember any of the night’s antics when he awoke the next morning. In fact his friends had to persuade him of the true location of his missing door key.

"I thought it was a wind-up when my friend said I had swallowed it,” said the computer design student.

"But my throat and stomach didn't feel quite right."

However, when he went to hospital and saw the X-ray, he realised his friends were being serious. The X-ray of the two-inch key caused even the doctors to snigger, said Chris, before they told him to go home and ‘let nature take its course’.

“It appeared the next day,” said Chris.