Even as we raked our brains as to what these radiopaque shadows could be, our department's tag-line kept coming back to our mind. We do agree with Benjamin Felson when he says that the 'world's greatest consultant to a radiologist is the patient's previous radiological investigations' (there were none for this patient) ; we go one step ahead and say and we believe that Radiology is about Patients and not just Images. It was therefore natural for us to turn to the patient's mother and ask a detailed history. Whereupon, she said that the child has been asking for an unusually large number of erasers over the past several months. We then wondered if the shadows that were seen in the abdomen could be those of the erasers that the child might be eating as a part of a disease process which is familiar to all of us by the name of Pica - in which, the patient eats non-nutritive substances at the age where such behaviour is not appropriate. This often involves scratching the paint on the wall and eating them (leading to lead toxicity) or sometimes eating dirt or even faeces. But, we have not often heard of Pica being produced by 'addiction' to rubber erasers.