While we wish this story wasn’t true, unfortunately it is.
The X-ray above shows a 10-centimeter fork inside a 70-year-old’s urethra. The man, from Canberra, Australia, showed up to Canberra Hospital’s Emergency Department with that very embarrassing, but mostly super painful, problem.
This probably wasn’t very shocking for doctors to see, as numerous accounts from doctors confirm that various objects have been pulled out of other patients’ urethra and rectum before. Ready to know some of those objects? Lightbulbs, thumbtacks, telephone wires, animal bones, balloons and, of course, chewing gum.
Three Australian doctors from the hospital’s Department of Urology wrote about the man above and how “detailed history taking revealed he had self-inserted a 10-cm steel dining fork into his urethra 12 hours prior, for autoerotic stimulation.”
According to the doctors, the fork was successfully removed without a excision needed, and the man was able to go home. (Perhaps try a spork next time around?)
Since we are all disgusting, curious human beings, you can see a VERY GRAPHIC and VERY NSFW photo of the fork removal right here. (Go ahead. You know you’re going to click. Of course now you have to look at it.)
Via Snopes
