I am sure this is not the type of e-discovery” the lawyers for the government ever had in mind.

From The Register:

A suspected cybercrook who swallowed a USB drive in an apparent bid to destroy evidence has been charged with obstruction.

Florin Necula, from New York, ate a Kingston flash drive thought to contain mag strip dumps from credit cards shortly after his arrest outside a bank in Queens on 21 January. He gobbled the USB drive while awaiting processing and questioning at a Secret Service office in Brooklyn.

Necula’s attempts to digest the evidence resulted in a trip to a New York hospital and, four days later, a presumably delicate operation to remove the USB stick.

I would think “presumably delicate” doesn’t begin to cover what that guy had to go through.

Hat Tip: EF and the eDiscovery Journal