24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with WW1 shell lodged in his rectum(english.elpais.com)
10 pointsby TMWNN4 hours ago6 comments
  • ycombinatrix4 hours ago
    wow! 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.

  • unsupp0rted3 hours ago
    > it was a relatively small World War I shell, measuring about 20 centimeters long and just over three centimeters in diameter
  • jjgreen4 hours ago
    Men will stick anything up their arses, "I fell on it!" ... riiight.
    • kykat4 hours ago
      Is it really that common? Any statistics on the topic?
    • ycombinatrix4 hours ago
      Not really fair to the guy, he admitted to inserting it.
  • badc0ffee4 hours ago
    Thank goodness they avoided an assplosion
  • churchill4 hours ago
    [dead]
  • vdupras4 hours ago
    This 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.

    • unsupp0rted3 hours 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

      • vdupras3 hours ago
        This was irony, I don't care whether this submission is in the listing.
    • NedF2 hours ago
      [dead]