When his stomach started swelling and he began experiencing abdominal pain, a 45-year-old man from Balipadar, India, admitted to his family that 10 days earlier some of his friends had inserted a steel cup into his rectum as a prank while he was drunk, and he hadn’t been able to remove it. He had not wanted to admit this because the incident had taken place at Surat in Gujarat, a state where alcohol is illegal, as well as for fear of embarrassment, although he had been unable to defecate since the incident. Concerned family members rushed him to hospital where X-rays showed a cup of around 3-4in (8cm) in diameter and 6in (15cm) long jammed in his rectum.
