A sex toy, stuck to the roof of a British Army building, proved to be much harder (so to speak) to remove than expected.

The sexual device was glued to the top of the regimental headquarters of the King’s Royal Hussars, a cavalry regiment, and initially it looked like it was there to stay.

The managers of the building said removing the device was “not a priority job”, according to ex-infantry officer and journalist Nick Waters who posted the footage, and claimed it could take up to 40 days before it reached the top of the to-do list.

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Some soldiers decided to take matters into their own hands and fashioned a rather long poking device in an attempt to prod it down themselves - in actuality they just flicked it a bit, much to the delight of the giggling group of onlookers.

It appears management rethought the PR repercussions of leaving a sex toy on top of an army building for weeks, and they removed the phallic device with the help of a crane and some elbow grease on Wednesday.

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