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Man, 24, goes to hospital with ‘WW1 bomb stuck in rectum’

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The man was complaining of pain when he went to Rangueil Hospital (Picture: AFP) Doctors in France had an unusual shift this weekend after a man came to the hospital with a historic artefact shoved up his anus. A 24-year-old man came to the hospital in Toulouse, complaining about pain but off...

A picture taken on April 4, 2020 shows the entrance of the Rangueil hospital in Toulouse, southern France
The man was complaining of pain when he went to Rangueil Hospital (Picture: AFP)

Doctors in France had an unusual shift this weekend after a man came to the hospital with a historic artefact shoved up his anus.

A 24-year-old man came to the hospital in Toulouse, complaining about pain but offering no details.

After entering surgery, it was discovered that he had pushed a 16x4cm World War One shell dating back to 1918 in his butt.

Doctors called the bomb squad, and the hospital was soon flooded with law enforcement and firefighters.

Firefighters confirmed to Le Parisien that they defused the bomb shell, and there was no further risk of danger.

The man, however, is still recovering from surgery and could face charges for violating France’s weapons legislation.

VERDUN, FRANCE - AUGUST 26: Unexploded artillery shell from World War I found by a local farmer lie in a field at Champneuville prior to the arrival of mine-clearing specialists on August 26, 2014 near Verdun, France. Specialists Guy Momper and his colleague Raoul Weber are among a handful of men kown in French as "les demineurs" whose sole task is to collect munitions, mostly from World War I, still turning up throughout northern France, but especially between Verdun and the German border 100km away. Fighting around Verdun was particularly intense and it is estimated that millions of unexploded French and German shells are still strewn across the region. During the 10-month Battle of Verdun in 1916 artillery barrages in some areas were so intense that thousands of artillery shells fell on average per each square meter. Momper and his team of demineurs expect they and their successors will be collecting shells still for centuries to come. Europe has been commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of the war in 1914. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
The World War I-era explosive had to be removed through surgery (Picture: Getty)

He’s not the only person who’s risked his life shoving rather – shall we say, unorthodox – items into his behind.

A 45-year-old man risked losing his life after enduring 10 days with a metal cup stuffed up his rectum before finally seeing a doctor.

It was believed to have been inserted into his anus by friends as a drunken prank during a raucous party in Surat, Gujarat, a dry state of India.

The cup was around 3-4 inches in diameter and 6 inches long, according to local reports, and his attempt to remove it the following day backfired.

It lodged the item further up his rectum, but he spent days suffering in silence as he was too embarrassed to tell anyone.

And a kilt-wearing pervert shoved antique items into his anus last year – a makeup brush, an antique bottle opener and a tobacco tent can.

Mitchell C Vest, 60, dressed in a kilt, was caught putting them up his hole before placing them back carefully on the shelves at The Antique Gallery in Houston, Texas.

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