He's the latest in a string of incidents involving men forcing fishy objects into their bowels. One case happened in Auckland, prompting then-3 News reporter David Farrier to get to the bottom of eel breeding in New Zealand, as seen in the video above.

The Guangzhou Daily reported the eel, with a head diameter of 3-5cm, had broken through his intestines and made a mess of his abdominal cavity.

"We asked Mr Liu when we spotted the eel in his stomach, he said the eel went into his anus by mistake. But after the surgery, he told us that he actually put an eel inside his anus himself," Dr Zhao Zhirong told Guangdong Television.