A 70-year-old man inserted a nearly 1 meter long telephone cable into his 'private part'.

A man in his 60s was rushed to hospital after a cable got stuck in his bladder, causing serious injuries as he tried to pull it out of his penis. According toKankan NewsThis man inserted the string into his private part because of itching, a symptom of prostatitis.

The telephone cable was removed from the old man's body after surgery.

On March 30, doctors at Dalian Hospital in Liaoning Province performed surgery to remove the foreign object from the patient's genitals. Urologist Gao Zhanfeng said that after reviewing the ultrasound image, he noticed that the cable, which was 0.5 cm wide, had formed a knot inside the patient's bladder.

"The knot got tighter as he tried to pull it out, which caused the bladder to bleed," Gao said. "It wasn't too difficult to get the string in, but because the string was twisted and knotted, it couldn't be pulled out without help."

Dr. Gao used a laser to cut the cable before removing it from the patient's body piece by piece.When a reporter asked: "Did you disinfect the wire before threading it in?", the old man replied: "I just washed it thoroughly under the tap."

According to Dr. Gao, fortunately, the patient did not use any other harder or metal material to insert into the urethra, otherwise the bladder could have been punctured. After this incident, the old man said he would consider it a lesson and never do such a foolish thing again.