The staff at Hospital Sainte Musse in France had to evacuate the premises due to a bomb scare caused by a WW1 artillery shell lodged in a patient’s rear end.
Frenchman Arrives With WW1 Bomb Shell Stuck In His Rectum
An elderly Frenchman caused a panic on Saturday when he visited a hospital in Toulon, France with a WW1 artillery shell lodged in his bottom. The Sainte Musse hospital was hastily evacuated when the patient sought medical attention to have the explosive removed from his rectum, setting off an alarm.
A spokesperson at the Sainte Musse Hospital said,
“An emergency occurred from 9pm to 11.30pm on Saturday that required the intervention of bomb disposal personnel, the evacuation of adult and paediatric emergencies as well as the diversion of incoming emergencies.”
They further added,
“We had to manage the risk in a reactive framework.”
The bomb squad disposal team reacted quickly, concluding that it was improbable for the WW1 artillery shell to explode inside the body of the individual who is speculated to have inserted it into his anus for sexual gratification.
Physicians, relieved after the procedure, cut and extracted the 20-cm-long and 2-inches-wide shell from the patient’s posterior, as reported by the French publication Var-Matin.
The spokesperson for the hospital commented that the elderly individual is currently in good condition and progressing favorably. Though such incidents are rare, this wasn’t the first time physicians had to take away war-related memorabilia from someone’s rectum.
A collector located in the Gloucester region of the UK had an unfortunate incident last year when, while tidying up, he fell onto a World War Two artillery shell and got it lodged in his rectum.
A doctor at the hospital shared that they’ve seen all sorts of things inside a patient but not a bombshell.
“An apple, a mango, or even a can of shaving foam, we are used to finding unusual objects inserted where they shouldn’t be. But a shell? Never!”
The WW1 artillery shell was eight inches long and more than two inches wide. The spokesperson shared that the artillery shell was a collector’s item.
“They reassured us by telling us that it was a collector’s item from the First World War, used by the French military.”
Social media wasted no time in joining in and joking about the situation. One user commented,
“I’ve heard of troops bringing the rear up but this is too far.”
Another commented,
“He could’ve just used suppositories!”
A user joked,
“Guess he wanted to go with a bang.”
Another quipped,
“He was one fart away from redefining what ‘explosive diarrhoea’ is.”
One of the users also added,
“I would have given him lots of Taco Bell and stayed clear…..”
