Portage la Prairie, MB –
For Emil Gauthier seeing is believing, and Gauthier thought the sign advertising the annual flu shot read, “get your anal flu shot today.”
The fifty-year-old married man showed up at the local clinic and began making demands for an anal flu shot.
“We politely tried to correct him by saying the ‘annual’ flu shot was only a few minutes wait,” Nurse Kari Wilkinson said. “He quickly became agitated demanding he wanted an anal flu shot not an annual one.”
Gauthier insisted the advertisement he saw stated he required an anal flu shot to protect against the upcoming strains of influenza.
“He just wouldn’t back down,” Wilkinson said. “He started screaming he wouldn’t leave without getting an anal shot. He was causing a scene and we only had one option other than calling the police.”
The quick thinking Wilkinson consulted with her colleagues and they agreed on giving Gauthier the normal flu shot in his anus.
“It’s a little unorthodox but the man was becoming unhinged,” Wilkinson said. “He was being a pain in everyone else’s ass so we thought we’d calm him down by returning the favour.”
The medical team administered the flue shot directly to Gauthier’s anal region and sent him on his way.
“As long as his annual flu shot doesn’t permanently become his anal shot we’ll be okay.”
Gauthier would not grant our request for an interview but his wife says he is resting comfortably on his side while he uses social media to remind friends and family to get their anal flu shots before it is too late.