Farmington, New Mexico - "I mean the ring was pretty big. But in all honesty, I've seen her put bigger things in her mouth and swallow them," said a fellow sorority sister and friend of Kaitlin Whipple, the women that swallowed her engagement ring that her fiancé placed into a milkshake to surprise her with his proposal for holy matrimony.
"I remember this one time last Spring Break," continued Kaitlin's sorority sister at San Jun College. "Some frat boys were having a banana eating contest. Well, after Kaitlin won, hands down, she looked out to the cheering crowd of drunken frat boys and yelled out: 'You guys think that's something?! Watch this!"
Kaitlin pulled out a three-foot long, 12-inch in diameter salami and proceeded to place into her mouth, swallowing it whole. As the crowd stared in stunned silence, she then regurgitated it. Resulting in a large number of the fraternity boys to vomit and even pass out; although the majority remained unaffected and just cheered and chanted: "Kaitlin! Kaitlin! Kaitlin!"
Reportedly, "Girl's Gone Wild" captured it all on video, but they were ordered by New Mexican authorities to destroy the DVD or face possible felony obscenity charges.
Reed Harris, Kaitlin's future fiancé, was also in the crowd that day and witnessed the entire event.
"It was love at first sight," said Harris. "I just knew she was the one for me."
When asked by Matt Lauer on the "Today Show" if she felt like she was choking when she swallowed the ring, Kaitlin responded: "What, that little thing? That's nothing. I hardly noticed it going down. Coming out, that was the real trick."
Kaitlin then said that she is proud of her ability to place large things in her mouth and swallow them, explaining it is a family tradition of sorts.
"I come from a family of proud sword-swallowers dating back to the twelfth century, Scotland," said Kaitlin. "There my ancestors learned the art of sword swallowing while under the repressive rule of Lord Longshanks."
According to Kaitlin, while other Klans were forced to surrender their swards to the solders of Edward I of England, her Klan in the Highlands found a way to hide them and those of other surrounding Klansmen by swallowing them whole: sword, kilt and haggis.
Later, much to the disappointment of the surrounding Klansmen, her ancestors realized that they did not have to swallow the Scotsmen whole, just their swords.
"Which they didn't find quite as satisfying as before, but later they learned to enjoy just as much," said Kaitlin.
Kaitlin says she always felt fortunate that she took after her father's side of the family from the Highlands of Scotland but after passing the ring last Thursday, she now says she has a new found appreciation for her mother's side of the family from the Lowlands.
"The Lowlanders were in charge of hiding the bagpipes," said Kaitlin. "And they took an 'alternate route' for hiding them then that of the Highlanders. But nobody seemed to mind in the end, claiming it only made them sound better afterwards."
"Wow, I'm the luckiest guy alive," said Kaitlin's fiancé. "I guess Kaitlin and me will be throwing out own little private bachelor party."
