“I went in and he said he swallowed two of these magnets. He burst out crying.” According to the mom, the boy “thought it would be ‘cool' having a tongue piercing,” and decided to try it.

But on Dec. 22, Gallon decided to pretend that he had a tongue piercing, placing two of the magnets in his set on either side of his oral appendage. He called to his mom to confess that he ...