This happened almost a year ago, but cannot find information if the owner was ever traced, was it a circumcision that went wrong?

Police in South Africa are trying to trace the owner of a severed penis which was found lying on the ground in a village.

The penis, which was not attached to anybody, was found on the ground outside a house in the small village of Masoyi, in the Mpumalanga region of eastern South Africa.

The police were called by the man who found the penis, which was not his penis, last Friday morning.

According to local police Superintendent Benjamin Mtsholi Bhembe, the man saw an unusual object on the ground outside the house he was taking care of.

‘On closer inspection, he realized that it was a man’s private part,’ said Bhembe.

Initial police investigations around the neighborhood – which we imagine involved knocking on people’s doors and asking ‘ have you lost your penis?’ – proved unsuccessful.

Authorities are urging the penis’s owner to come forward. If you have lost you penis, you are advised to contact your nearest South African police station.