We’re not sure if it’s been up there since the war, though (Picture: VAR-Matin)
The hospital worker has seen it all – an apple, a mango and shaving foam – but what they’ve never seen up someone’s bum is a World War One bomb.
A man, 88, arrived with just that at the Sainte-Musse Hospital emergency room in Toulon, France, last Saturday evening.
The hospital had to be evacuated after doctors found the shell measuring 18cm high and 9cm long lodged up the man’s rectum, Nice-Matin reported.
A police source told the south-eastern regional newspaper that the man found the ‘collectable’ coincidentally with a flared base at his brother’s house.
He tried to assure doctors that the grenade was a dud but hotel management called for a ‘partial evacuation’, with workers and patients led to the main hall.
A bomb disposal team, police and fire services were also called to the scene while new patients were sent to nearby hospitals from 9pm to 11:30pm.
Just two wards operated as normal – the gynaecology and maternity departments.
The man insisted the century-old grenade was a dud (Picture: VAR-Matin/Facebook)
But the man found himself lying in a tent and underwent surgery to remove the shell out through his abdomen.
The patient is now in ‘good health’ and the least bit shellshocked, a witness told Nice-Matin, and hospital management thanked staff on Monday.
One hospital staffer said: ‘An apple, a mango and even a can of shaving foam – we are used to finding unusual objects inserted where they shouldn’t be.
‘But a shell? Never.’
There are a fair few reasons why someone would stick an object (though, maybe not a wartime bomb) up their breach, experts say.
Everything from live eels, glass bottles, an instant coffee jar with pins in the lid, a Buzz Lightyear toy, concrete mix to an aubergine have been shoved up there.
Why? Usually, it’s down to sexual pleasure.
The rectum is full of sensitive nerves that can stimulate the male prostate as well as parts of the vagina.
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