(Just when you think you've seen it all...)

From: https://shorturl.at/yQX5Y (nypost.com)

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Hospital evacuated after 8-inch WWI artillery shell discovered in patient's
butt

   By
   Ben Cost
   Published Feb. 2, 2026, 11:52 a.m. ET

   He had some explosive indigestion.

   A hospital in France was evacuated after a male patient arrived with a
   WWI artillery shell lodged in his backside.

   According to the bum-shell report, the unnamed 24-year-old had been
   rushed to the Rangueil Accident and Emergency unit in Toulouse late
   Saturday night, the Daily Mail reported.

   The poor fellow was "in a state of extreme discomfort, having inserted
   a large object up his rectum," an insider source said.
   
   Fearing a potential fire in the hole -- and hospital -- medical
   personnel alerted the bomb squad and fire brigade and evacuated the
   facility.

   Meanwhile, a security perimeter was formed around the medical center as
   the authorities investigated the explosive situation.

   Fortunately, the retro munition, which was also pointed and over an
   inch wide, was not deemed a threat.

   The bomb disposal experts took the shell with them while the patient, a
   French national, remained at the hospital so he could recover from
   surgery.

   It was unclear how the antique ordnance ended up in the man's
   posterior, but experts suspected the combustible could have been the
   result of a party stunt gone awry.

   However, France's La Depeche newspaper wrote that medical staff in
   Toulouse are "accustomed to treating victims injured during sexual
   games."

   The shellshocked patient is expected to be interviewed by authorities
   later this week, while prosecutors are considering taking legal action
   against him for handling "category A munitions," per an officer.

   Shells such as the one found in the man's bum were used during the
   First World War by the Imperial German Army, which deployed hundreds of
   thousands against the British and French armies across the Western
   Front between 1914 and 1918.

   The explosives, which are date-stamped, regularly turn up during the
   "Iron Harvest" - the annual collection of often unexploded munitions
   from both world wars, which are found on farmland, building sites and
   other disrupted land.

   And while a person's backside might seem like a strange location for
   one of them to surface, shockingly, this wasn't a first at a French
   hospital.

   In 2022, the Hospital Sainte Musse in Toulon was partially evacuated
   after an 88-year-old arrived with a World War I artillery shell
   similarly lodged in his anus.
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-- Sean

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