If there was any lube involved it is likely that he would have been able to remove it himself, without involving the bomb squad, or troubling his local hospital for a painful incision.
Though the 88-year-old assured staff the shell was a collector’s item that had been deactivated, staff at the Sainte Musse Hospital in Toulon scrambled to evacuate some of its patients, redirect others, and call in the bomb squad.
“An apple, a mango, or even shaving foam…we’re used to finding unusual objects inserted where they shouldn’t be,” an unnamed ER staffer told the local paper Nice-Matin, which broke the story.
“But a shell? Never.”
The man’s appearance at the hospital required a major reshuffling and partial evacuation of patients, most notably the paediatric unit, to the main hall. For a few hours on that Saturday evening, new patients were also redirected to other hospitals.
As an added precautionary measure, a make-shift tent was also set up outside the hospital to treat the octogenarian in isolation.
Once the bomb technicians confirmed that the shell was indeed inactive and ruled out the possibility of an explosion, doctors proceeded with the removal of the war relic. But as told to the Nice-Matin, “it rarely comes out from where it comes in”.
To extract the shell, which measured around six centimetres in diameter and 20 centimetres in length, doctors had to perform abdominal surgery and remove it from the other end.
'To extract the shell, which measured around six centimetres in diameter and 20 centimetres in length, doctors had to perform abdominal surgery and remove it from the other end.'
Jesus wept. Hopefully he's learnt his lesson and will henceforth stick to smaller calibres, or those with a rifling, which I presume would enable the inserted armament to be screwed in and out more easily.
'To extract the shell, which measured around six centimetres in diameter and 20 centimetres in length, doctors had to perform abdominal surgery and remove it from the other end.'
Jesus wept. Hopefully he's learnt his lesson and will henceforth stick to smaller calibres, or those with a rifling, which I presume would enable the inserted armament to be screwed in and out more easily.
“An apple, a mango, or even shaving foam...............
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“An apple, a mango, or even shaving foam…we’re used to finding unusual objects inserted where they shouldn’t be,” an unnamed ER staffer told the local paper Nice-Matin, which broke the story.
“But a shell? Never.”
The man’s appearance at the hospital required a major reshuffling and partial evacuation of patients, most notably the paediatric unit, to the main hall. For a few hours on that Saturday evening, new patients were also redirected to other hospitals.
As an added precautionary measure, a make-shift tent was also set up outside the hospital to treat the octogenarian in isolation.
Once the bomb technicians confirmed that the shell was indeed inactive and ruled out the possibility of an explosion, doctors proceeded with the removal of the war relic. But as told to the Nice-Matin, “it rarely comes out from where it comes in”.
To extract the shell, which measured around six centimetres in diameter and 20 centimetres in length, doctors had to perform abdominal surgery and remove it from the other end.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/hospital-evacuated-80-old-man-173252507.html
Jesus wept. Hopefully he's learnt his lesson and will henceforth stick to smaller calibres, or those with a rifling, which I presume would enable the inserted armament to be screwed in and out more easily.
I'm trying to get stuff out of there never mind shoving stuff back in.
Innuendo