Well, with a news report like this:
... what other common expression could I possibly use to headline this post?
(Those understanding artillery and/or explosive terminology can doubtless provide other useful terms to describe the situation. Being a family-friendly blog, at least some of the time, I shall refrain - but with difficulty...)
Peter
19 comments:
Not 8 inch caliber, for sure!
I dunno... I've known a few "people" who were such giant (you know what) that an 8 inch caliber shell would fit snugly. With room to spare.
French 75?
Well, at least this one apparently went in that way...
There's a wartime story about one guy who had a *fresh* unexploded live artillery round that'd *entered next to his navel* and ended up approximately there - apparently he'd had a piece of his uniform shirt get caught in the fuze mechanism... IIRC the official report said it was extracted and both the patient *and* the medical crew lived, at least that day, but not how many similar cases may have gone boom.
Shows up every now and then in battlefield medical triage related literature.
My favorite thing is that this isn't the first time this has happened at that hospital.
back in the early 1990's worked 3rd shift at a local trauma center. you wouldn't believe what came in thru the ER doors. I had to X-ray all sorts of people who had stuff you couldn't image they shoved up their 3 point of contact.
after a while, you stop asking how or even why
it was that bad. you just say, sure and get them out of your clinic as fast as you could.
I mean, like unreal what "it" was and "why" it got "stuck" up there.
That's what I'd call some explosive diarrhea....
Always, the answer is, "I fell on it." Always.
We used to keep a small museum (file drawer) of all the strange items removed from recti, but hosp admin found out, and it had to go away.
So the article says the munition was "over an inch wide", which leads one to suspect that the 8- inch dimension was length and therefore makes our culprit a 20 mm round. Still not a likely item to be found infundament.
That is quite a shell. Classic WWI French hardware was the 75mm (which the US also purchased for WWI) which would be just shy of 3". Poking around the closest I see to 8" (~203mm) is this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortier_de_220_mm_mod%C3%A8le_1880) a 220 mm mortar. I do wonder what manner of drugs you had to be on to think using a 220 mm mortar shell as a suppository was a good idea? I have a 203 mm Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope the concept of shoving that where the sun don't shine appalls me. I just can't conceive of how it is even possible.
Reading the Fine Article I see that it is a German shell. They show pictures of what appear to be 150/155 WWI German shells. That's more like 6" and I suspect there is a conversion error from the Metric units. That said 6" is still a prodigiously stupid act.
one "clown"' I never forget came in with a wooden bed post inside him. yup. about 8-9 inches of it anyway. needless to say he went to the OR to have it removed. the ER doc came by afterwards with it in a plastic bag. the base of it was rotten away like. one question we all had was "just how long was he riding that thing?"
guy (?) was in his early 30 at least, not much more than that. funny thing was "his story" about how (?) "he was moving his bed downstairs and it slipped " after saying that.
my co worked asked him "so, you changed your ripped jeans and came here then ? "
yeah, right.
Taint funny
Rectum? Heck no, killed him.
At least it wasn't a gerbil... sigh...
Dear Whoever Needs To Hear This:
Nothing "accidentally" ends up in your butthole.
Sincerely, your local ER team
Once more into the breech...
It was originally a naval saying, "Fire in the hold!", referring to the powder hold.
--Tennessee Budd
Nothing says I love you like - Sodomy with explosives.
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