A Frenchman loads a WWI bomb in the wrong chamber

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Rectum ?? Damn near killed him !!

On the plus side, good to see some seniors still staying active.

A hospital in the city of Toulon in southern France was evacuated in a panic Saturday after an 88-year-old patient arrived with an explosive surprise: A World War One-era artillery shell inserted straight up his rectum, according to French media outlet Var-Matin.

The bombshell discovery of what was revealed to be over 20 centimeters long and over five centimeters wide (eight inches long and two inches wide) loaded up the very wrong kind of chamber in this senior citizen prompted an immediate scare in the hospital, causing an evacuation of the pediatric and adult emergency cases and with all incoming emergency patients being diverted.

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Ok that’s something you don’t read about every day. Don’t even want to know why he would put it there sheesh

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Nice!

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Been saving it for just such an occasion

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I bet you’ve been waiting most of your life to use that line for real. :wink: :+1:

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Can’t remember exactly how many years ago I first heard it but I seriously do think you are correct.

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I don’t even remember the joke for which it’s the punchline, but that has always stuck in the back of my mind too. :wink:

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There are better options for relief of constipation.

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Chris Farley said it in a movie called Black Sheep.

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The wrong chamber…best thread title ever.

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oh ! is that the genesis of it ? I saw the movie but don’t remember. I know I’ve heard Jim Rome say it

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Well..,according to Urban Dictionary it is. :blush:

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I clearly remember that punch line (but not the joke that set it up) from long before Chris Farley was born.

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Good thing they’re so good at retreating. What a crappy day. :thinking:

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I was saying “Come on, BRANDON! Let’s go, BRANDON!” clear back in 2008 while playing Call of Duty with my friend, Brandon. He hated it then, he hates it even more now. :rofl:

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What is it with the French, for real ?

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From the article:

“almost 8 inches long and just over an inch in circumference,”

That’s like a fat pencil.

The picture in the article shows a 37 mm x 20 mm shell (as used by the old man in the OP,) but that would be about 10 inches long. So I think the writer of the article meant just over an inch in diameter, which would make it a 25 mm projectile. Regardless, one would have to be a real dumb â– â– â– â–  to put one up his ass.

This though I found amusing: “There was no initial explanation as to why the shell ended up in the man’s body, but local media speculated that it might have had something to do with his social life.” :laughing:

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Perhaps the old boy was told he’s terminal and decided to go out with a bang? :rofl:
Nobody told him the round was inert? :woozy_face:
Les Français, si divertissants ! :star_struck:

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