Doctors Stunned as Man Arrives with WW1 Bomb in Rectum
Sometimes, emergency departments see things that are a little more far out there than they’d expect - but rarely do they see a historical explosive stuck up someone’s anus. If you’ve ever watched any kind of medical show, you’re likely to come across an episode showing a patient who has stuck something where the sun doesn’t shine.
But you never expect to see someone use artillery for pleasure. Doctors in France were left shell shocked after a 24-year-old man arrived at a hospital in Toulouse with a 16x4cm World War One German artillery shell stuck in his rectum that dated back to 1918. The man turned up with severe pain in his bottom.
The situation ended up needing a bomb squad and firefighters to come to the hospital’s aid as they evacuated the location for fear of the bomb doing, well, boom. The man told staff he had ‘introduced an object’ into his rectum, but did not explain what it was."
At the time of the extraction, the surgeon realized that it is a shell of the First World War, about 16 centimetres long and 4cm wide."" As a precautionary measure, firefighters are mobilized to reinforce in order to prevent any risk of fire during the intervention."
The shell turned out to be decommissioned, and the scene was cleared by the bomb disposal team as being safe. This isn’t the first time this has happened in France. A bomb scare was called in a different hospital and was partly evacuated after an 88-year-old came in for help with similar anal pain." An emergency occurred from 9pm to 11.
30pm on Saturday evening that required the intervention of bomb disposal personnel, the evacuation of adult and paediatric emergencies as well as the diversion of incoming emergencies." He had stuck an artillery shell – eight inches long and two inches wide – up his rectum and it became stuck.
However, the bomb squad determined it was unlikely it would explode inside the man. “They reassured us by telling us that it was a collector’s item from the First World War, used by the French military. ”The man was able to make a full recovery.