Sometimes things fall out

There’s a lot of things that are perfectly acceptable to buy on the black market. Some things that come to mind are fake passports, guns and babies. Surgery, however, is not one of them because stuff like this happens when you try to get your butt redone.

From NJ.com:

The women checked into hospitals in the county after their procedures, apparently administered by unlicensed providers, went horribly wrong, state health officials said. The women underwent surgery and were given antibiotics. No arrests have been made.

Different from medical-grade silicone, the substance used in the botched procedures was believed to be a diluted version of nonmedical-grade silicone.

“The same stuff you use to put caulk around the bathtub,” said Steven M. Marcus, executive and medical director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, who learned about the bizarre procedures through a committee he sits on that monitors outbreaks in the metropolitan area.