When he removed the magnets from the outside of his nose, the two inside stuck together. “I was trying to pull them out but there is a ridge at the bottom of my nose you can’t get past. “As I was pulling downwards to try and remove the magnets, they clipped on to each other and I lost my grip. At this point I ran out of magnets.”Before attending the hospital, Reardon attempted to use pliers to pull them out, but they became magnetised by the magnets inside his nose. “Every time I brought the pliers close to my nose, my entire nose would shift towards the pliers and then the pliers would stick to the magnet,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times March 30, 2020 10:02 UTC