Unfortunate German builder gets shovel stuck up his backside

A 31-year-old builder was left in agony when a freak slip from a ladder thrust the handle of a shovel 20 inches up his backside.

Astonished paramedics ferried luckless labourer Michael Mayer to hospital in Munich, Germany, where surgeons cut away the handle with an angle grinder.



"It was a million to one shot accident. He was up the ladder and lost his footing and as he fell one of those American-style spades without a grip on the end went right up his bottom. It was a sickening scream," said one workmate.

Hospital authorities say Mr Mayer has undergone an operation to remove the remaining section of the handle.