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On June 17th, the small rural village of Liucunbu, China was digging a new well.  They got about 80m deep when they discovered a strange looking object.  No one knew what it was, so they put the long fleshy discovery in a bucket of water and called Xi’an Up Close, who sent out a news reporter to try and shed some light on what it could possibly be.

“As we can all see, this looks like a type of fungus, on both ends of which you’ll find mushroom heads,” the news report states.  “On this side, you can see what looks like a pair of lips. And on that side, there is a tiny hole which extends all the way back to this side. The object looks very shiny, and it feels very fleshy and meaty too.”  Well, if you haven’t been able to guess where this is going I’ll fill you in.  What the village dug up was not a new variety of mushroom, it was a male masturbation aid and what the village didn’t know… the internet did.  Once the report went out there, it went viral on how this village and news reporter mistook a sex toy for a mushroom.

Xi’an Up Close has since issued a correction and an apology.  It also seems that they’ve put the blame on the reporter saying she is “still very young and unwise to the ways of the world”.  What about the other people of the news crew?  Maybe people where just to embarrassed to say what it really was to the reporter.  What ever the reason, it’s pretty funny over all but I do feel bad for the reporter.  I’m sure this is something people will never let her forget.