Tangents

You know when you're kinda researching something, but then you stumble on something else and kinda get distracted?

So that happened to me tonight. Just what the hell is THIS?!

As seen on the Internet

In 1955 one man who was "feeling depressed" reportedly inserted a six-inch paper tube into his rectum, dropped in a lighted firecracker, and blew a hole in his anterior rectal wall. This changed his mood real quick.

FSM help me if I'm ever that bored or in that much of a funk. From this "Stright Dope" column. Read on to to see what other interesting things people have had removed from their recta.