Only in America: The colonoscopy prank

A hospital pranks an employee during a colonoscopy — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation

The colonoscopy prank
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A Delaware man is suing a medical clinic because he woke up from a colonoscopy wearing a pair of pink women's underwear. Andrew Walls, 32, was employed at the Delaware Surgery Center at the time of the incident and claims that the "extreme and outrageous'' joke played by his colleagues caused him to suffer "severe emotional stress and mental anguish."

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