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Stalker62

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A serious case of shell-shock for the doctors

There was a bomb scare at a hospital in France when an 88-year-old Frenchman arrived with an eight-inch (sic) World War One artillery shell stuck in his rectum.

The unnamed senior citizen arrived at the Hospital Sainte Musse in Toulon, southern France, one Saturday evening in the hope of having the bomb removed from his anus.



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Look now. Perfectly simple explanation I think. He was probably taking it down for dusting from a high up shelf and had put it down on the chair he'd stood on to reach it. And then fell backwards on top of it. And likely with it being winter and his radiators full on he'd maybe taken all his clothes off so as to not have his body overheat whilst doing his dusting chores?

OTOH when I attended jurisprudence and toxicology lectures at Leeds in the mid-1970s there was one still memorable black and white slide of a young man who'd anally impaled himself on a broomstick and fallen with fatal results. At post mortem they removed the organs and then reassembled them as "skewered" and photographed the ensemble.
 

A serious case of shell-shock for the doctors

There was a bomb scare at a hospital in France when an 88-year-old Frenchman arrived with an eight-inch (sic) World War One artillery shell stuck in his rectum.

The unnamed senior citizen arrived at the Hospital Sainte Musse in Toulon, southern France, one Saturday evening in the hope of having the bomb removed from his anus.



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How on earth do you find this stuff 🤦
 
Poor old fella - he probably ate it the night before…
Anyhoo - Pal’s Mrs is a nurse in A&E - many tales of individual derring-dos - including one gentleman with a 40 watt lightbulb stuck in precisely the same location - bulb first. I didn’t dare ask how they knew it was 40 watt….
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