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Bet this story won’t appear on Casualty. A 50-year-old man reported to a British A&E department dribbling urine, suffering painful spasms in his pelvis – and with two ends of a thin telephone wire dangling some five inches from the end of his penis. He’d been unable to maintain an erection since suffering a heart attack four years previously. So, for the last three years, he’d inserted telephone wire into his urethra to obtain an erection suffic­ient for masturbation. Usually, he just pulled the wire out. But this time the cord stuck. An X-ray showed both smooth and coiled telephone wire running along his urethra and ending deep in his bladder.