Man Had His Glass Eye Flushed Down Toilet By Someone Who Thought It Was Crack

[matcom]

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SEATTLE - Eddie Mitchell can see it -- the looks people give him. They stare.

He knows they're looking at one thing: the patch on his right eye.

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Someone poked it out with a stick years ago, in a fight over drugs. But that's not why Eddie's wearing the patch. He's wearing it because of something that happened a month and a half ago.

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You see, Eddie Mitchell had a glass eye. Past tense.

The 43-year-old former addict took it out one day, and put it on a table to make a dramatic point.

He shouted: "This is what crack/cocaine does to you!"

Now for the twist.

Someone picked up Eddie's prosthetic eye and, "Flushed it down the toilet," says Nate Mullin. The toilet! "Which is like 'wow, how do you do that?'"

And so, that's why Eddie's wearing the patch. The person who flushed it thought it was a rock of crack-cocaine. "When I told him it was my eye, he was really shocked," says Eddie.

http://www.komotv.com/news/7261386.html

[bleedingheart]

1. I am thinking about the Big Lebowski...and the toilet scene..

I don't know why...but this story made me think of that...

[billyskank]

2. Should have kept his eye on it.