On December 17, an 88-year-old man checked into Sainte Musse Hospital in Toulon, Southern France, and told the hospital staff he had a World War I bomb stuck up his derriere.
He asked the stunned doctors to remove the object.
The hospital staff got spooked and were concerned that the 100-year-old bomb could still detonate, so they evacuated the hospital.
Bomb removal experts arrived at the hospital and reassured the staff that there was a close to nothing chance that the century-old bomb would explode inside the elderly man’s body. They explained that the bomb was a collector’s item used by the French military in World War I.
A hospital spokesperson released a statement saying that there was a bomb scare in the hospital from 9 pm to 11:30 pm on Saturday, and that the hospital evacuated all their patients.
After the doctors were reassured there was no danger, they did a surgical procedure to remove the object from the man’s rectum.
Speaking to French news, one of the doctors said that they are accustomed to having people come in with unusual items inserted in places they shouldn’t be, including fruit and even a can of shaving foam. They had never seen someone insert a bomb in his bottom before.
The shell was measured and said to be eight inches long and about two inches wide.
A hospital spokesperson reported that the 88-year-old was recuperating well after the surgery.
Even though hospital staff were shocked, believe it or not, it was not the first-time bomb experts have had to go to a hospital for a bomb threat because of a bomb shell stuck in a person’s butt.
In December 2021, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in England admitted a man with a World War II bomb in his rectum. The man told news media that he had slipped and fallen on the bomb that was in his military collection and with amazing precision, the object ended up in his bum. Believe it or not.
