Doctors at a UK hospital devised an ingenious, party-worthy plan involving balloons and magnets to extract a large flashing kids' toy from a man's backside. When conventional methods failed, nurses and surgeons were forced to think outside the box—delivering a bizarre, headline-grabbing moment for emergency medicine’s highlight reel.

The glowing toy ball—6.5cm wide, packed with ball bearings and red liquid—was finally deflated with a scalpel, letting air and liquid escape before extraction with forceps. This wild ER story joins a parade of viral “rectal foreign body” removal cases worldwide.