Posted on 02/16/2014 7:32:56 PM PST by Dallas59
WHAKATANE, New Zealand (PIX11)— New Zealand trucker Steven McCormack is either the luckiest or unluckiest person in the world, depending on one’s perspective.
McCormack was working on his tractor trailer at a gas station in Whakatane, on the North Island’s east coast, when he slipped and fell, landing on a broken high pressure air valve.
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I hear he can stand flat-footed, bend over and paint the side of a barn against 50mph winds.
The mechanics of this are somehow eluding me.
Yeah he really blew that one.
“Man Nearly Explodes After Compressed Air Valve Lodges In Buttocks”
Wait.
What?
LOL!
His chance of survival was really up in the air for a while there.
And the article says when they stuck a needle in to get a blood sample, it just spit back out.
I don’t know whether to believe this or not. But according to the account, no it didn’t go up his butt, exactly. It punctured one of his buttocks. Pushing air under his skin, not into his intestines.
After further digging around I found that the air was entering just beneath his skin; evidently the pressure was causing the skin to separate from the muscular structure underneath. This happened in 2011.
Frank Costanza - “It was a million-to-one shot, doc.”
I remember an incident about 50 years ago where some men were horseplaying. One grabbed an air hose, poked the other in the butt and hit the button. He thought it was in fun.
It was a perfect hit. It inflated and ruptured the other man’s intestine. He died screaming.
I remember an incident about 50 years ago where some men were horseplaying. One grabbed an air hose, poked the other in the butt and hit the button. He thought it was in fun.
It was a perfect hit. It inflated and ruptured the other man’s intestine. He died screaming.
Indeed, it would have ruptured everything and he’d be a goner.
If it had lodged where you imply, his intestines would have been ripped to shreds, and he probably would have died, not have left the hospital in three days. Not only does he suffer a grotesque injury, he’s the subject of jokes and lewd speculation.
I don’t know why the LA Times is bringing this up now, it happened almost three years ago. A perennial favorite, I guess.
I didn’t realize Algore was working again.
[Burped and farted the air out for THREE DAYS!]
It was not part of the article, but I am sure his co-workers and friends were around him saying things like: “Go, Steve, blow it out your $$$, you rootin, tootin, polutin son-of-a-gun you.”
He must be on a bathroom break.
Maybe he’s venting excess gas.
million to one shot, doc, million to one. /seinfeld
It appears to be a clue.
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