Thrice-Hammered Romanian

(Orlea, Romania) A 48-year-old local man, Viorel Firoiu, arrived drunk at the hospital complaining of constipation and excruciating stomach pains. Worried doctors took X-rays.

They were knocked sideways to find he had not one but two hammerheads stuck in his rear end.

“He was a bit drunk and said he had been eating cherries that had left him badly constipated,” the Sun quoted hospital spokeswoman Dr Cristina Bontescu as saying.

“He said he had a few drinks to dull the pain and then came up with the idea of poking a hammerhead up his backside in the hope of sorting out the constipation.

“But the hammerhead got stuck and then he came up with the idea of using a second hammerhead in order to try and get out the first - but then he lost the second one as well,” she added.

Surgery followed.