Friday, June 30, 2006

Nominee for the Darwin Award

Some comic relief:
Operation removes lightbulb from anus
Thu Jun 29, 7:34 AM ET

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus.

Wednesday night, doctors brought Mohammad's misery to an end after a one-and-a-half hour operation to remove the object.

"Thanks Allah, now I feel comfort. Today, I had my breakfast. I was just drinking water, nothing else," Mohammad, a grey-beared man in his mid-40s, told Reuters from a hospital bed in the southern central city of Multan.

"We had to take it out intact," said Dr. Farrukh Aftab at Nishtar Hospital. "Had it been broken inside, it would be a very very complicated situation."

Mohammad, who is serving a four-year sentence for making liquor, prohibited for Muslims, said he was shocked when he was first told the cause of his discomfort. He swears he didn't know the bulb was there.

"When I woke up I felt a pain in my lower abdomen, but later in hospital, they told me this," Mohammad said.

"I don't know who did this to me. Police or other prisoners."

The doctor treating Mohammad said he'd never encountered anything like it before, and doubted the felon's story that someone had drugged him and inserted the bulb while he was comatose.

3 comments:

Stogie said...

Obviously he was merely trying to "shine the light" of Islam on the place he keeps his Qur'an.

Miss Carnivorous said...

I find it difficult to understand why anyone in prison would have to resort to an "unnatural" item such as a lightbulb, for a good time. Plenty of organic (yes, it's a pun, sorry) items ready for insertion.

Anonymous said...

I guess his mate needed some light to find that gerbil, and things 'got away from him.'

That or he 'fell' and the bulb just got up him...

What're ya gonna do?

I like his 'I don't know how it happened' response, that is funny too.