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
7 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....
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