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A 24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with a World War I shell lodged in his rectum (english.elpais.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by RockBottom@feddit.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Medical staff had to halt the procedure, fearing a possible explosion. The hospital, unfamiliar with such protocols, immediately alerted the authorities, and around 1:40 a.m., police arrived and activated the bomb squad. The team established a security perimeter to neutralize the device so surgery could continue, though no one knew at that stage if the entire operation could blow up at any moment.

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[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Understood that reference

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm too stupid to be afraid to ask today, apparently. "Please" enlighten me.

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martinovi%C4%87_incident tells: "The collapse of this taboo in the coverage of the Martinović case heralded the growth of nationalism that was to lead to the country's collapse in 1991."

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Ouch, that poor bastard.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm conflicted about learning this. I find it informative, yet very very disturbing.

At first, I thought it was going to be about the start of WW I, given that Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a serb in what later became Yugoslavia. It seems these are cursed people.

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 week ago

They are lively people.

...and that makes them deadly people.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Damn, that's wild. The worst thing of all (war and bloodshed aside) is that he probably just wanted to disappear in embarrassment and escape notice from the public but instead him and his bottle got written into the history books. I wonder how many academic papers have mentioned his anus?

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 week ago

Well, his default escape being "it was Albanians" is such an asshole move to make that he loses all sympathy points for that...

(Pun about "asshole" originally unintended)