not just australia...

[Ken Gargett]

A MAN became a sitting target for a snake, which bit his penis as he sat on the toilet.

"As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt a knife-like pain and reacted instinctively by standing up," the China Times said. "When he looked down, he saw the big snake."

The 51-year-old Taiwanese man, from Nantou County, Tapei, was under medical care with minor injuries, a director at Puli Christian Hospital said.

"As soon as he has passed the risk of infection, he can go," the director, who declined to be named, said.

"A snake's mouth isn't always clean."

Local television images showed the black and yellow reptile, reportedly a species of rat snake, being uncoiled and plucked slowly from the toilet bowl.

Snakes regularly enter rural homes in Taiwan and other sub-tropical regions of Asia.

[Ken Gargett]

and even worse...

A 2cm long fish apparently found it's way into the penis of a 14-year-old boy from India in a bizarre medical case.

The patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of pain, dribbling urine and acute urinary retention spanning a 24-hour period. According to the boy, the fish slipped into his penis while he was cleaning his aquarium at home.

Professor Vezhaventhan and Professor Jeyaraman, who treated the boy and later wrote a paper on the case, explained: "While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra and then he developed all these symptoms."

After detecting the fish in the boy's bladder, Vezhaventhan and Jeyaraman used a technique known as cystourethroscopy to insert a special set of forceps down the patient's penis. Unfortunately, the fish was just too slippery to grip, so they resorted to using a rigid ureteroscope with a tool attached that is normally used for removing bladder stones.

The fish the urologists removed, which Practical Fishkeeping believes to be a small member of the Betta genus, measured 2cm long and 1.5cm wide.

He was later admitted into counseling to help him overcome any trauma.

[El Presidente]

Ken...what two words were you googling to find ths tidbit?

...the mind boggles

[BobLobLaw]

Hmmm I don't know, no cites, no links, not authority . . . the whole fish story just sounds . . . well fishy.

[Ryan]

Finding Nemo II

[Ryan]

He was later admitted into counseling to help him overcome any trauma.

Probably more like "He was later admitted into counseling to help him overcome the temptation to stick more fish up his flute in future."

[Ken Gargett]

Ken...what two words were you googling to find ths tidbit?

...the mind boggles

i wasn't googling anything. it was on the front page of this morning's courier mail, internet site. i was merely checking the paper and there it was.

suspicious minds!!

[sounddust]

I have read about the **** fish too. Also, one of my mates was taking a dump in the jungles of Brunei when he got his balls by a fly which was probably sent by Beezelbub. He didn't realize it until his grapefruits got swollen to the size of grapefruits later in the afternoon. They had to heli evacuate him.