Every now and again everyone may do something in their lifetime that is a little bit out of character, or something that they might regret later on in life. This is normal and is just part of the learning curve… On the flip side, there are just some individuals who are darn right crazy, and you have to question “why on earth did they do that?”

An un-named man from Costa Mesa, California, recently decided that he was not happy with the size of his manhood. Rather than talking this through with a therapist, he decides to try and complete a do-it-yourself penis enlargement procedure. He a placed a one inch thick metal ring on his penis, believing the weight to lengthen his prized possession; instead it got stuck. Rather than go to the doctors or hospital as soon as he discovered the object was stuck, he then left the foreign object on his penis for a further 3 days! The only way the object could be removed, was for the local fire service to cut through the device.

October 2008, a vicar arrived Sheffield General Hospital (Yorkshire, UK) requesting assistance to have a potato removed from his bottom! The vicar claimed with all sincerity, that the potato did not make it’s way into his back passage due to a kinky sex game – oh no! Instead, he claimed that he happened to be hanging curtains in his kitchen, in the nude, whilst up a step ladder. He then lost his footing, fell of the step ladder and landed butt first, on top of the potato (which just so happened to be lying on the work surface).

August 2008, a man from Hong Kong, whilst taking a stroll through a park – thought it would be a good idea to try and “make love” to a park bench. The bench, rather than being wooden, was metal and had several small holes punched in it. The man slid his manhood through the metal hole, which then got stuck. After spending several hours of struggling, to try and free himself he failed and ended up having to call the police. They too could not free him, so had to cut up the bench with the man still attached and take him to hospital. It took 4 long hours before man and bench were parted..

July 1978, following a malfunction with a piece of equipment in a Russian particle accelerator, Russian scientist, Anatoli Bugorski decided to put his head in the part of the machine where the proton beam passes through. Whilst trying to locate the source of the problem, he suddenly advised that he saw a flash of light “brighter than a thousand suns”, but did not feel any pain at all. The proton beam had burned through half of his face, leaving it swollen and unrecognisable. Within a few days skin started to peel off. Convinced that he was going to die, Burgorski was admitted into a Moscow clinic where he could be closely observed. Miraculously, despite his serous injuries, which left half of his face paralyzed, he survived and even managed to finish his PHD. For someone so smart, it was a pretty dumb thing to do.