Assam, India: A routine surgery at a hospital in Assam went south when the doctor performing the surgery, and other medical staff found a mobile phone charger cable inside the urinary bladder of the patient.

The patient, who has been identified as a 30-year-old man, lied to the doctors that he had ingested nearly 2 feet long cable through his mouth.

However, it was later revealed that he inserted it through his penile urethra.

Dr. Walliul Islam, a well-known surgeon in Guwahati, Assam, said:

The patient came to us with severe abdomen pain and told us that he consumed a headphone cable by mistake. We examined his stool and conducted an endoscopy as well but couldn’t find the cable. When we operated him, there was nothing in his gastrointestinal tract.

Islam conducted an X-ray while the patient was on the operation table to make sure that the cable was there.

It later revealed that the cable was in fact in the urinary bladder of the man.

The doctor removed the cable through a surgery.

Dr. Islam explained:

He told us that he had consumed headphones through the mouth, but in fact, he had inserted the mobile charger cable through his penis. I have been conducting surgeries for 25 years now but this is the first time such a case happened on the operation table.

According to the doctor, the patient that they operated on had a fetish of inserting stuff through his penis as a form of sexual pleasure.

The doctor explained:

It’s a type of masturbation called urethral sounding, which is the insertion of an object or liquid into the urethra. The person had come to us five days after he inserted the cable. He repeatedly told us he consumed it through his mouth and we never imagined an adult would lie about such a thing. We could have done away with the surgery if he had told us the truth and could have removed the cable through the same route he had inserted it. But surgery had to be done as he lied.

Islam said that the patient does not have any mental disorder.

He went on:

Instances of men indulging in urethral sounding are known. But this person went to an extreme and hence the cable reached his urinary bladder. This is a very rare thing.

This is a type of news that you will not get to hear every single day.