24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with WW1 shell lodged in his rectum

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wow! three different people decided this was a good idea.

free business idea for YC Spring 2026 batch: weld flared bases onto demilitarized artillery shells. make the world a safer place.

> it was a relatively small World War I shell, measuring about 20 centimeters long and just over three centimeters in diameter

Men will stick anything up their arses, "I fell on it!" ... riiight.

Not really fair to the guy, he admitted to inserting it.

Is it really that common? Any statistics on the topic?

Thank goodness they avoided an assplosion

This is not flagged of course, because it has everything to do with Tech and Capitalism, and it encourages curiosity. It's not at all reddit-worthy.

I'm so glad that HN has all these vigilante flaggers constantly on the lookout to keep HN's submissions worthy of our attention.

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

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This was irony, I don't care whether this submission is in the listing.

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