The wife of the 63-year-old Glendale man called emergency services when she discovered his attempt at self-surgery to remove the protruding hernia, police said.
"She said he had impaled himself with a knife," Sergeant Lorenz said, Associated Press reports.
Officers found the man naked on a patio lounge chair outside his apartment with a 15-centimeter butter knife sticking out of his stomach, AP says.
He was upset by the hernia and wanted to get it out, his wife told police.
