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Posted on 02/04/2012 4:42:50 PM PST by bkopto
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A college student claims he was injured when a fraternity member in a "drunken stupor" decided "that it would be a good idea to shoot bottle rockets out of his a***," and did so, "but instead of launching, the bottle rocket blew up in the defendant's rectum, and this startled the plaintiff and caused him to jump back," and fall off the fraternity's deck.
Louis Helmburg III sued The Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Inc., of Huntington, West Virginia, and Travis Hughes, a fraternity member, in Cabell County Court.
Helmburg claims - in a statement it would be difficult to deny - that "firing bottle rockets out of one's own anus constitutes an 'ultra-hazardous' activity," which exposes both defendants to strict liability.
Helmburg says he suffered pain and medical expenses, and lost playing time on the Marshall University baseball team. He claims the Alpha Tau deck from which he fell lacked a railing, which violated Huntington building codes.
Helmburg says the fiasco came at about 1:30 a.m. on May 1, 2011, at an Alpha Tau house party he attended with his girlfriend.
"Several of the people in attendance at said house party were under the legal drinking age, including defendant Travis Hughes," the complaint states. "Most of the persons in attendance at said house party were also consuming alcohol with the full knowledge and consent of the ATO fraternity."
Several Alpha Tau members were on the deck when Hughes got his bright idea, including one or more fraternity officers, Helmburg says.
The complaint states: "Defendant Hughes was highly intoxicated on this date and time, and decided in his drunken stupor that it would be a good idea to shoot bottle rockets out of his anus on the ATO deck, located on the back of the ATO house. ...
"Defendant Hughes placed a bottle rocket in his anus, ignited the fuse, but instead of launching, the bottle rocket blew up in the defendant's rectum, and this startled the plaintiff and caused him to jump back, at which time he fell off of the ATO deck, and he became lodged between the deck and an air conditioner unit adjacent the deck.
"There was no railing on said deck at the time of the incident. Upon information and belief, the lack of a railing had existed for at least several months, if not years, before the incident. Upon further information and belief, the deck never had a railing when it was installed, or any time thereafter. The subject deck was approximately 3-4 feet high."
Helmburg says Alpha Tau negligently failed to supervise its guests and members, "such as defendant Hughes, and other under age persons, from consuming alcohol on its premises, which leads to stupid and dangerous activities, such as shooting bottle rockets out of one's own anus."
As for Hughes, Helmburg says, "Defendant Hughes also owed plaintiff and others on the ATO deck a duty of care not to drink under age, or to fire bottle rockets out of his anus."
It is unclear from the 5-page complaint whether Hughes was injured, or how badly, when the bottle rocket exploded in his rectum.
Helmburg seeks damages for negligence and strict liability.
He is represented by Timothy Rosinsky of Huntington.
In my youth, I was highly intoxicated around bottle rockets and other fireworks. Thankfully, I never got the bright idea to put any in my rectum, although we used to shoot them directly at each other.
Speechless ping.
I’ve been pretty “absent of mind” in my time, but to engage in this sort of behavior speaks of a level of personal depravity that inebriation would barely touch.
Well, for some people, perhaps. But with daily practice, I can tell you the risk is significantly reduced.
Oh, and most of those events were lost to my memory and only know about them because they were reported to me afterward.
Same could be said for Russian Roulette, if you think about it...
A young man had too much to drink,
Which thus made him unable to think,
With flair and pizzazz,
He stuck a bottle rocket up his @ss,
The resulting explosion caused quite a stink.
Geez, I've seen plenty of exploding anuses and I never fell off a roof.
He needs a beating so he has something to sue about.
In a more innocent age, I only wrecked cars, not ums.
The fool.
You’re supposed to hold the stick end of the bottle rocket in your teeth, not between your butt cheeks!
Ping worthy.
We did that sober, each was allowed a metal trash can lid to use a shield.
Glass coke bottle with several rockets in one hand, trash lid in the other and a lit punk in our teeth.
Sometimes the rocket going off would light off some others. You learned the hard way to wait to see if you were shooting one or more before pulling back the bottle to put near your face with the lit punk in your teeth.
But usually, if the burns are not too bad, eyebrows grow back.
Parents today would be shocked to learn we lived if they knew everything we did as young teenagers.
Seems to be a popular stunt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdH9j-FkiWg
Really. And it wasn't even a roof. It was a lousy deck! "The subject deck was approximately 3-4 feet high." Oh, poor baby!
"Waaah! Somebody's @ss exploded and I got scared and I fell off the deck! Three whole feet! I'm a little baby!"
Jackwagon.
I can see a problem here, his mother probably told
him never to run with a bottle rocket up his butt,
Yet the instructions all say , “Light fuse and
RUN AWAY!”.
Blames everyone but himself. Typical.
Oldies, but goodies...
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