Hospital evacuated after man shows up with WW1 shell stuck in his rectum

Doctors were left shell-shocked after an 88-year-old man arrived at hospital with a WW1 bomb up his anus

Hospital Sainte Musse, in Toulon, southern France, was evacuated after the unnamed pensioner turned up on Saturday evening hoping that someone would free the explosive from his anus.

Doctors understandably were worried that the shell could explode inside the man, who is understood to have inserted the item in his backside for sexual pleasure. Fortunately bomb squad disposal experts arrived shortly after and determined that there was little risk that the shell would blow up, and managed to put surgeons at ease, French news outletDoctors made an incision and surgically removed the First World War collector’s item, which measured at 8 inches long and more than 2 inches wide .Doctors made an incision and were able to remove the explosive. Picture: Twitter/@acommonlawyer.

It's not every day that a doctor has to remove an explosive from a patient's rectum, but this isn't the first time it's happened.

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