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Pseudoaneurysm is a rare condition arising from disruption in the arterial wall with blood dissecting into the tissues around the damaged artery creating a perfused sac that communicates with the arterial lumen. Its incidence is on rising due to the increase in endovascular procedures, hemodialysis and intravenous drug abuse. Here we report a young male who was found by an NGO worker, lying on the roadside near a Mandir with a pulsatile inguinal swelling and blood oozing out from it. He was taken immediately to the emergency department of LN Hospital. He was a rickshaw puller and known drug addict. The swelling was diagnosed as pseudo-aneurysm of common femoral artery on clinical examination and by Doppler ultrasonography. He was referred to CTVS department and admitted there for surgery. In the meanwhile, he collapsed in the hospital toilet and died due to hemorrhagic shock consequent upon rupture of pseudoaneurysm of the femoral artery.