A Florida man was caught out trying to smuggle a Thermos flask into jail via his rectum, which, in slightly more crude terms, means he shoved it up his backside.
51-year-old Walter Frymire was arrested for allegedly trespassing on a railway shortly after it had been claimed he'd been naked in a park bathroom. Officers probably didn't have much trouble catching up to him, since his running gait was likely disrupted by a Thermos flask he'd inserted into his rectum as a form of concealment.
Arrested and taken to jail, the Florida man was put through a customary X-ray scan to detect whether or not he had anything untoward on him,or, in this case, in him.
Officers claimed they'd already found meth on the man when they brought him in, and when they gave him the body scan they saw, well, see for yourself...
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That is a Thermos flask lodged firmly up the man's bum, with Sheriff Grady Judge saying: "He brought a thermos into the jail. That’s right.
“He put it up the exit ramp. You know what I mean?
"We said ‘Dude! What are you doing here?’ He said, ‘Well, I put that inside my body.’ He didn’t swallow it twenty four hours earlier."
Fortunately, the local hospital has a 'specialist' in these sorts of cases, who was able to remove the flask from Mr Frymire's rectum. The fact that they have people who are specialists in doing this indicates a worrying tendency among people to stick objects up their bum which really don't belong there.
The sheriff joked that removing the flask was 'quite the ordeal', but the 51-year-old was now 'Thermos-less in the county jail'. He also reckoned that the removal probably saved the 51-year-old's life.
To put it lightly, it's difficult to imagine the waste disposal aspect of the digestive process proceeding smoothly when the poop chute is blocked by a honking big flask.
Before he was arrested on the railway, Frymire had been let go by officers over the previous claims that he'd been 'naked' in park toilets, as he was clothed by the time they got to him.
He's previously been arrested 25 times and has been to prison five times.
Unfortunately for doctors, they've had to deal with a remarkable amount of people who've got something unfortunate lodged somewhere unfortunate.
Very often, there'll be a claim that they simply tripped and fell on the object, or somehow accidentally swallowed it, as in the case of a man who went to hospital with an entire drinking glass stuck up there, but it's all part of the job.
Joe Harker