Man gets eel stuck up his anus but won’t tell doctors how it got there

A man has refused to tell doctors how an eel managed to get stuck up his anus while he was drunk. The man in his 40s, who did not want to be named, was taken for treatment at Nanchang University hospital in eastern China where x-rays revealed the creature was in his abdomen.

Doctors said the Asian swamp eel had wriggled its way up the man’s body and was causing a serious obstruction. The eel – a delicacy in coastal China – was eventually removed from the man’s body and he is now recovering in hospital. Surgeons believe the eel was inserted up his anus deliberately but they declined to reveal exactly what happened to spare the man’s blushes.

The man himself, who is said to have arrived drunk, also refused to explain how an eel found its way up his backside. It is not the first time doctors in China have had to remove eels from people’s bodies. In April this year, a 49-year-old surnamed Liu from South China’s Guangdong Province had the same species of eel removed from his intestines after he shoved one of the animals up his anus “to cure constipation”. A month later, another man from Sichuan Province in south-western China was treated in a similar case, only this time his friends inserted the live eel up his backside as a prank.

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