The human balloon: Truck driver survives being INFLATED after air brakes tube pierced his bottom

DailyMail.co.uk ^ | May 25 2011 | Richard Sheers

[Celtic Cross]

'It felt like I had the bends, like in diving. I had no choice but just to lay there, blowing up like a balloon' When he became a lorry driver, Steven McCormack probably felt he could handle the stresses of the job. But the 48-year-old New Zealander couldn't have anticipated quite what sort of pressure he would have to endure. Mr McCormack was blown up like a balloon after falling on to a compressed air tube in a freak accident. The end of the tube pierced the flesh of his left buttock, forcing compressed air at the rate of 100 pounds per square inch into his body, swelling it to bursting point.

[OB1kNOb]

I’ve busted my butt before, but not literally.

[Migraine]

I tell ya — this gas inflation IS all it’s cracked up to be!

[bgill]

My prognosis is he’s full of hot air.

[Ransomed]

Huh, I was always told that playing around with compressed air nozzles was very dangerous, or at least that’s what the safety videos have always said. I remember someone telling once that this is how some butchers help lift the skin off animals, don’t know if it is true or not.

Freegards

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I don’t believe this.

[Lazlo in PA]

Reminds me of when James Bond inflates Dr Kananga in Live and Let Die.

[Responsibility2nd]

Mr McCormack was blown up like a balloon after falling on to a compressed air tube in a freak accident.

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Freak accident my inflated arse!

Just like them light bulbs up the wazoo was a freak accident.

lololol.

[Responsibility2nd]

This stuff happens. Even to presidents.

 

Lucky for Obama; he's got big ears to release the pressure.

 

[slackerjack]

Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode. George’s dad had a pasta noodle removed by a proctologist. He said it was an accident, “one in a million, doc”.
Right.....

[driftdiver]

“I remember someone telling once that this is how some butchers help lift the skin off animals, don’t know if it is true or not.’

I’ve seen that on dirty jobs. Its true its true

[momtothree]

Gas X before the meal... uh, inflation?

[UB355]

It’s true. I watch Swamp People they use compressed air to raise the skin off Gators.

[ReneeLynn]

“It was a million to one shot, doc. Million to one.”

[Fedupwithit]

"Million to one shot, doc.....Million to one..."

[patton]

Yep - I remember seeing that.

[dfwgator]

So will he be making an appearance at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?

[campaignPete R-CT]

balloon man ping

[Grizzled Bear]

Put this on my list of things I would not want to experience OR SURVIVE!

[BerryDingle]

Sniff—sniff.........”Ok, who busted ass in here?”