Hospital staff were shocked when an 88-year-old man arrived at a hospital in France with a World War One bomb lodged in his rectum.
The elderly man checked into the Sainte Musse Hospital, located in Toulon in Southern France, on Saturday, December 17. He told stunned doctors that he had stuck the bomb up his rear and wanted them to remove it.
The man’s arrival sparked fear among hospital staff that the 100-year-old bomb might detonate, so they began evacuating other patients.
However, bomb disposal experts at the scene determined there was little to no chance that the bomb would explode inside the man’s body. They told hospital officials that the bomb was a collector’s item from World War I and the French military used it.
Sainte Musse Hospital’s spokesperson released a statement confirming that there was a bomb scare in the hospital from 9 pm to 11:30 pm on Saturday. The hospital evacuated all their patients.
After bomb experts assured the doctors that the bomb was safe, they started working on removing it. Doctors did a surgical procedure and dislodged the bomb.
Speaking to the French news outlet, one of the doctors remarked that they were used to seeing people come in with unusual items inserted in places they shouldn’t be, including mangoes, apples, or even a can of shaving foam. Still, they had never seen anyone insert a bomb in their bottom before.
After the procedure, doctors measured the shell and found it was eight inches long and about two inches wide.
The hospital spokesperson said the 88-year-old was recuperating well.
Even though hospital staff was stunned, believe it or not, it was not the first-time bomb experts have responded to a bomb scare in a hospital because of a shell lodged in a person’s butt.
In December 2021, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucestershire, England, admitted a man with a WW2 bomb in the rectum. The man told reporters that he had slipped and fallen on the bomb that was in his military collection. Believe it or not.