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Jackass warning after horrific firecracker accident (Darwin candidate)
Ananova ^
| 9/4/2003
Posted on 09/05/2003 1:41:03 PM PDT by 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
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: butt; darwin; firecracker
Hold muh kangaroo an' watch this...
(Professional idiot on closed course. Do not attempt.)
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posted on
09/05/2003 1:41:04 PM PDT
by
Sender
To: Sender
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posted on
09/05/2003 1:43:04 PM PDT
by
Norman Conquest
(Think of it as evolution in action.)
To: Sender
Hopefully the injury is such that he WILL NOT be able to reproduce
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posted on
09/05/2003 1:43:46 PM PDT
by
sticker
To: Sender
Talk about someone being A BIG a--hole
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posted on
09/05/2003 1:47:28 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(Free Republic ..You have to support, things we don't support, to get our support.... goofy isn’t it?)
To: Sender
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!
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posted on
09/05/2003 1:48:19 PM PDT
by
camle
(not even a water balloon fight can rouse these dullards!)
To: sticker
STUPID IS AS..........
To: Sender
Seems like he's added a bit of clarity to the gene pool :)
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posted on
09/05/2003 1:52:31 PM PDT
by
dfrussell
To: Sender
This kind of stunt just defies all manner of logic. How can someone be sooooooo stupid!?!?!?!?!?
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posted on
09/05/2003 1:53:59 PM PDT
by
pctech
To: Sender
You just know as an absolute fact this started with:
"Here hold my beer"
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posted on
09/05/2003 1:55:01 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(Free Republic ..You have to support, things we don't support, to get our support.... goofy isn’t it?)
To: pctech
I can't imagine. Shoving a lit M-80 in your butt, then sitting on it...truly we can never understand this.
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posted on
09/05/2003 2:09:55 PM PDT
by
Sender
To: Sender
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.
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posted on
09/05/2003 2:16:01 PM PDT
by
Paco
To: Sender
"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.
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posted on
09/05/2003 2:21:48 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Saddam Had No Taepodong-II nuke ICBMs capable of hitting the World's Largest & 2nd Largest Economies)
To: Sender
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 arent terribly powerful. Wed 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 didnt cause any damage like it did to this guy.
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posted on
09/05/2003 2:22:34 PM PDT
by
Who dat?
To: Who dat?
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.
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posted on
09/05/2003 3:09:57 PM PDT
by
Chewbacca
(Stay out of debt. Pay cash. When you run out of cash, stop buying things.)
To: Chewbacca
What is really funny to me is that in CA you cant 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.
Im 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.
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posted on
09/05/2003 3:30:46 PM PDT
by
Who dat?
To: Sender
What!? No pictures!?
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:40:41 PM PDT
by
turk99
To: Who dat?
You think the cops would have cited the restaurant for littering?
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posted on
09/05/2003 6:33:01 PM PDT
by
Chewbacca
(Stay out of debt. Pay cash. When you run out of cash, stop buying things.)
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