Picture this: a 24-year-old Frenchman strolls (or waddles) into the ER in “extreme discomfort,” docs investigate, and surprise—it’s not a weird sex toy, it’s a live 1918 World War I artillery shell, 16cm of explosive history wedged where the sun doesn’t shine. Bomb squad evacuates the entire hospital, perimeter up, everyone out while experts defuse what could have been the most explosive breakup story ever. Now the guy’s facing weapons charges because apparently French law doesn’t have a “personal fireworks exemption” clause. Just another Saturday in Toulouse.

Man turns up at hospital with WWI bomb shoved up rectum