Man Farts, Sets Genitals on Fire

A Danish man was having surgery to remove a mole from his backside when he broke wind. The gaseous emission was ignited by a spark from the electric knife the surgeon was using, and the man's genitals, which had been soaked in surgical alcohol, caught fire. He is suing the hospital for pain and suffering, and for the time he has had to take off work while he recuperates. "I've had to be booked off work for longer than expected and, besides the pain, I can't have sex with my wife," he says. The operation was halted immediately after the incident, which the surgeon claims no one could have forseen.

(Ananova)