Brazil boy seems to attract metal objects

[donnay]

Brazil boy seems to attract metal objects


SAO PAULO (AP) — An 11-year-old boy in Brazil's northeastern city of Mossoro is drawing attention with his purportedly magnet-like qualities.

The Globo TV network has broadcast images of Paulo David Amorim demonstrating how forks, knives, scissors, cooking pans, cameras and other metal objects seem drawn to his body and remain stuck on his chest, stomach and back.

The boy's father tells Globo that he decided to test his son after learning of a boy in Croatia with a similar ability. Junior Amorim says he was surprised to find "a fork and knife stuck to his body."

The youth says classmates call him "magnet boy."

Dr. Dix-Sept Rosado Sobrinho tells Globo it is the first time in his 30-year career that he has seen a case like this.

http://news.yahoo.com/brazil-boy-seems-attract-metal-objects-145251866.html

Video here:  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-20063282-10391705.html?tag=re1.channel

[Scarbo]

Cute but not sure how it relates to this forum. :p

[donnay]

Cute but not sure how it relates to this forum. :p

I thought it was worthy of some discussion-- how would a child become a human magnet per se?  The media has mostly dismissed this as a hoax, which makes me suspicious when MSM completely dismisses or ignores an weird story like this.   As a general rule, MSM thrives on many a stupid stories to distract us.  So I am wondering if there isn't something to this story they are trying to make us ignore?


I found this article on AOL, that now makes this boy a Croatian not Brazilian as first reported...yet if you look at both videos the boy is the same?

Is Ivan Stoiljkovic, Croatia's Magnet Boy, A Hoax?