Do you realize that this is the 12th year we’ve run this series? Time really flies when you don’t have something lodged up your butt. But for those of you who do, read on to see if you made this year’s list of the weirdest stuff that entered America’s orifices. If not, there’s always next year.

All reports are taken from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s database of emergency room visits, all descriptions are verbatim, and all the entries below involved some very poor decisions.

  • FINGER PUPPET

  • “SHOVED A BAG CONTAINING 20 HYDROXYZINE PILLS INTO HIS RECTUM FOR ‘STREET CRED’”

  • “MOTORIZED TIRE PUMP INSERTED IN HER RECTUM AND WAS INSUFFLATED FOR A DURATION OF APPROXIMATELY 5 MINUTES”
  • celeste@kbin.earth
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    Most of these are obviously the unfortunate end to an otherwise pleasant time, but I can genuinely see the two baby shark toys happening because of the genuine chaos of having children. The tub’s kind of a mess after kiddo’s bath and it took longer than normal but you gotta get to work - oh no! You slipped on a toddler paint stick! Tragic. The worst thing is on the way to the ER you’re just thinking about how that baby shark toy is the only way you can keep them from sobbing about taking a bath.

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        20 hours ago

        i can’t read articles like this without remembering that episode. there are a lot if baby sharks in tubs out there, and a lot of people slipping every day. it’s unlikely, but…a million to one shot, maybe?

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      Slipping and falling on stuff and said stuff ending in your rectum. As we all had in our lives. You know, the common way. I honestly don’t think it’s an accident, if only from my limited experience slipping and falling.

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        20 hours ago

        occam’s razor here would be what you’re saying, instead of the looney tunes meets seinfeld type mishap I’m suggesting!

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      You would have to have the skinniest butt with the loosest sphincter for this to happen, so plausible

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        20 hours ago

        hank hill slips and hits that tub of bath toys at such a high impact, the toy’s gone before he realizes what’s happened…tragic