Friday, February 17, 2006

17-year-old addicted to sand

There are drug addicts. There are alcoholics. Some inhale shoe-polish or adhesives. Some people even use venomous snakes or spiders to enjoy ecstatic moments of trances. But a 17-year old boy relishes eating “sand,” red or white! Subhas Bag of Dankuni in Hooghly is sand-addicted. He eats sand every day. “I take a fistful of sand almost every hour. Otherwise I feel uneasy. It is necessary in my list of food,” he said.

He eats 2 to 3 kg of sand every day.

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