September 14, 2018

He really committed - putting it eight inches up his urethra.

Surgeons had to remove a smartphone cable from a teenager’s penis - after he put it up there out of “curiosity”.

The 13-year-old shoved the charging lead nearly eight inches up his urethra before realising he couldn't pull it out again.

He was then left in excruciating pain as the cable became tangled before knotting in his bladder.

The boy said he was "just curious" to see what would happen. Photo: The Sun

Doctors were forced to operate

His worried parents rushed him to a local hospital in Linkou, north-eastern China, where medics applied lubrication in a bid to pull the cable out.

But that didn't work and left the boy in even more pain, so he was transferred to the Harbin Children’s Hospital the next day.

Doctors there were forced to cut the lad open to get the cable out.

He was finally discharged from hospital on Tuesday – more than two weeks after surgery.

After the cord was hooked around the boy's bladder, surgery became the only option. Photo: The Sun

"When he tried to pull it out, it became stuck"

Doctor Xu Liyan is Harbin Children’s Hospital’s resident urologist.

“He cut off one end of the cable and inserted it into his urethra," she said.

“The cable reached his bladder, where it tangled and ended up in a knot, so when he tried to pull it back out, it became stuck.”

Doctor Xu said she had no choice but to operate on the boy.

They cut into his bladder to find the knotted cable, snipped the tangled section and removed the remaining cord through his urethra the same way it went in.

The boy, who has not been named, claimed he inserted the cable into his penis because he was “curious” about his genitalia.

This story first appeared in the The Sun and has been republished here with permission.