Talk about BAD LUCK..holy shit!

Kishar · 05-26-2011, 07:18 AM

New Zealand man 'blown up like a balloon' by compressed air - Telegraph

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A New Zealand truck driver has said he blew up like a balloon when he fell onto the fitting of a compressed air hose that pierced his anal cavity and forced air into his body at 100 pounds a square inch.

Steven McCormack was standing on his truck's foot plate when he slipped and fell, breaking a compressed air hose off an air reservoir that powered the truck's brakes.

He fell hard onto the brass fitting, which pierced his left buttock and started pumping air into his body.

"I felt the air rush into my body and I felt like it was going to explode from my foot," he told local media from his hospital bed in the town of Whakatane, on North Island's east coast.

"I was blowing up like a football," he said. "I had no choice but just to lay there, blowing up like a balloon." Mr McCormack's workmates heard his screams and ran to him, quickly releasing a safety valve to stop the air flow, said Robbie Petersen, co-owner of the trucking company.

He was rushed to the hospital with terrible swelling and fluid in one lung. Doctors said the air had separated fat from muscle in McCormack's body, but had not entered his bloodstream.

Mr McCormack, 48, said his skin felt "like a pork roast" - crackling on the outside but soft underneath.

A hospital spokesman confirmed details of the freak accident, which she said could have killed Mr McCormack.

"It's fair to say he's lucky to be alive, it was a potentially life-threatening situation."

farmergiles · 05-26-2011, 07:31 AM

Gotta wonder

**SageTree** · 05-26-2011, 07:39 AM

"accident"......

pervert!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Snowmayne · 05-26-2011, 08:32 AM

adventure · 05-26-2011, 08:39 AM

did a Oompa Loompa save him?

Qui-Bong Jinn · 05-26-2011, 10:53 AM

This older guy (used to be a mechanic) in my class told my class about some guy that worked in his shop that shot a buddy up the ass with a compressed air gun as a prank and killed him. That guy is extremely lucky to be alive.

**Home Wrecker** · 05-26-2011, 10:58 AM

It was a one-in-a-million shot doc, one-in-a-million.

HTAM · 05-26-2011, 11:27 AM

A great story to tell his grandkids.

About the time he b-AIR-ly survived, that is.

El Coyote · 05-26-2011, 09:07 PM

He really blew it by slipping off the truck's foot plate.

05-26-2011, 07:31 AM	#2 (permalink)
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Qui-Bong Jinn Jedi High Council Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Kingston, Ontario Posts: 2,135 Thanks: 911 Thanked 501 Times in 372 Posts	This older guy (used to be a mechanic) in my class told my class about some guy that worked in his shop that shot a buddy up the ass with a compressed air gun as a prank and killed him. That guy is extremely lucky to be alive.

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HTAM Old School Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,872 Thanks: 2,368 Thanked 2,117 Times in 1,179 Posts	A great story to tell his grandkids. About the time he b-AIR-ly survived, that is.

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