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A Chinese man was left red-faced after getting his penis stuck in a pipe for TWO DAYS.

Lian Tien came up with possibly the world's most bizarre excuse for the embarrassing blunder - he was painting in the nude and slipped.

The 61-year-old said his 'private parts' became stuck in a pipe sticking out used to take water from the building's air conditioning unit.

But he thought nobody would believe his story - so he stayed there for two days until he developed a fever and called doctors, who suggested they call for backup from the fire brigade.

Doc Dewei Yuan said: "The member had swollen so much that there was nothing more we could do, and we had to ask for help."

Firefighters in Quanzhou City took four hours to cut off the pipe around the patient’s genitals.

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An embarrassed Tien said: "It was hot so I was painting the wall in the nude, and I slipped on the floor causing my private parts to fall inside the pipe that was protruding from the wall to take water outside from the air conditioning unit. Unfortunately, I got stuck as a result."

"I thought that no-one would believe me and I tried everything I could think of to get the damned thing off once it had got stuck.

"I cut it from the wall and tried pouring oil and liquid soap down the sides but my manhood was so tightly wedged that nothing dripped down.

"I went to sleep thinking that if I relaxed it would slide off. But it didn't. It began to get red and inflamed. I was worried that I would get a terrible infection."

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Bizarrely it's not the first time this has happened - a man turned up at Southampton General Hospital with his member stuck in a steel pipe.

The patient was given an anaesthetic and it took seven firefighters using a metal grinder to free his manhood.

Although his penis was left bruised and swollen - it was luckily otherwise unharmed and the reason behind his strange venture was left a mystery.

Another man ended up with his penis stuck in a toaster leaving firefighters to blame the 'Fifty Shades of Grey effect'.

It is unclear exactly what the humiliated gentleman had been up to, but fortunately London's finest arrived to extricate his manhood from the electrical device.

And if all that hasn't put you off - then check out extraordinary X-ray pics of objects inside people and pets including the man who 'sat' on Buzz Lightyear.