Jackass warning after horrific firecracker accident (Darwin candidate)

Ananova ^ | 9/4/2003

[Sender]

Doctors in Australia have urged people to not to attempt Jackass style stunts after a man burnt his genitals in a firecracker accident.

The 26-year-old Australian man suffered a fractured pelvis and severe burns when a firecracker exploded between the cheeks of his buttocks.

The incident has left the man, from Illawarra, New South Wales, incontinent and unable to have sex and he is expected to remain in hospital for several months.

Dr Robert McCurdie, who operated on the man when he was taken to Wollongong Hospital, likened the man's condition to "a war injury".

Dr McCurdie said he believed the man had stumbled while the firecracker was in his buttocks, and fell down on it.

"By virtue of the fact that the explosion was confined in an upward direction, it went up into his pelvis, blasted a great hole in the pelvis, ruptured the urethra, injured muscles in the floor of the pelvis which rendered him incontinent. His pelvis was also fractured."

It is not known whether the man was imitating the cult prankster film Jackass in which men place firecrackers in their buttocks and shoot them into the air.

Acting Senior Sergeant John Klepczarek said the danger with movies like Jackass was that some people were tempted to try the stunts at home.

"They're putting themselves at risk, and other people. We do caution people strongly against following these acts," he said.

Story filed: 15:37 Thursday 4th September 2003

[Sender]

Hold muh kangaroo an' watch this...

(Professional idiot on closed course. Do not attempt.)

[Norman Conquest]

Hey! A Darwin winner who can accept his award in person! Is that a first?

http://www.darwinawards.com

[sticker]

Hopefully the injury is such that he WILL NOT be able to reproduce

[tophat9000]

Talk about someone being A BIG a--hole

[camle]

now what a sh!!!y story!!! piling upon a guy when his pants are down!(?)
the whole thing stinks if you ask me!
I guess you can call him a real a$$^ole!

[patriot_wes]

STUPID IS AS..........

[dfrussell]

Seems like he's added a bit of clarity to the gene pool :)

[pctech]

This kind of stunt just defies all manner of logic. How can someone be sooooooo stupid!?!?!?!?!?

[tophat9000]

You just know as an absolute fact this started with:

"Here hold my beer"

[Sender]

I can't imagine. Shoving a lit M-80 in your butt, then sitting on it...truly we can never understand this.

[Paco]

Well it's interesting to see that after many generations of development, the gene pool in Australia has not advanced one iota. What is it that makes someone stick a small bomb in their own ass? I don't get it...oh wait, yes I do. In Aussie land they blow their asses up, in America we vote then into office. Ass = Donkey = Democrat...it's all making sense now.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"I can't imagine. Shoving a lit M-80 in your butt, then sitting on it...truly we can never understand this."

Relax grasshopper. Relax. Breathe.

And, after meditation, while you are in a peaceful forest in your own mind's eye, gently imagine the sound of one cheek exploding.

[Who dat?]

Shoving a lit M-80 in your butt, then sitting on it...truly we can never understand this.

It must have been a heck of a firecracker. The ones you can buy in the U.S. nowadays aren’t terribly powerful. We’d take those little Black Cat firecrackers and hold them in our hand (hand flat and open – not in a clenched fist) and let them pop. It stung a little and on occasion you might get a little blood blister or something, but it certainly didn’t cause any damage like it did to this guy.

[Chewbacca]

Mighty Mites are better firecrackers.
They are made by the same company that makes lady-fingers and look like a larger version of them.
They have about three times the gunpowder that Blackcats have and there usually are less duds in a large brick.

[Who dat?]

What is really funny to me is that in CA you can’t hardly get fireworks anywhere. But just go to Chinatown in San Francisco. We were walking around there for some reason and some outfit was opening a new restaurant. They had those dragon/lion dancers and all sorts of celebratory stuff going on. I bet they had 35-40 minutes of straight, continuous firecrackers going off. Ha.

I’m telling you that the street and sidewalk was probably 4” deep in firecracker paper for a block. It looked like it had snowed or something.

Fireworks illegal almost everywhere in the state, but not a single cop in SF heard the hell raising going on in Chinatown. Ha. I guess some of our restaurant opening celebrations have a higher importance than our July 4th celebrations, etc.

[turk99]

What!? No pictures!?

[Chewbacca]

You think the cops would have cited the restaurant for littering?