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24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with WW1 shell lodged in his rectum
- unsupp0rted 9mo ago> it was a relatively small World War I shell, measuring about 20 centimeters long and just over three centimeters in diameter
- churchill 9mo ago[dead]
- jjgreen 9mo agoMen will stick anything up their arses, "I fell on it!" ... riiight.
- ycombinatrix 9mo agoNot really fair to the guy, he admitted to inserting it.
- kykat 9mo agoIs it really that common? Any statistics on the topic?
- ycombinatrix 9mo agowow! 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.
- badc0ffee 9mo agoThank goodness they avoided an assplosion
- vdupras 9mo agoThis 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.
- unsupp0rted 9mo ago> 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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- vdupras 9mo agoThis was irony, I don't care whether this submission is in the listing.
- NedF 9mo ago[dead]