Just damn.
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Posted on 07/09/2005 3:25:37 AM PDT by phoenix_004
A MAN who shoved a fire extinguisher hose up a pal's bottom and set it off was yesterday told to pay his victim £4500 compensation.
Brian Kennedy was also ordered to do the maximum 300 hours' community service following the prank that went horribly wrong.
Victim Kristofor Graham, 23, needed a colostomy after his rectum and large intestine were torn.
Last night, Kennedy, 34, said: 'I wish I could turn back the clock. I've apologised to Kristofor a couple of times but I know that's not enough.'
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard that Kristofor and Kennedy were staying in a B&B in the city while working as shopfitters last September
The men, from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, had been out drinking with colleagues.
They soaked each other with the extinguisher when they got back to their digs, John Richardson, prosecuting, told the court earlier.
He added: 'The complainer then lay face down on the bed with a pair of boxer shorts on. As he was asleep, he felt a hand on his shoulder.
'He then felt an object being placed in his back passage and he became aware of a loud hissing sound and the fire extinguisher being discharged.
'He was in immediate pain but didn't realise the extent of his pain until he got up to go to work and realised he was bleeding from his rectum.'
Kristofor went home for treatment because he didn't want his mum to be forced to travel north to see him in hospital.
He spent two weeks in hospital but was readmitted with abcesses and needed a colostomy.
Kristofor is still getting treatment and his injuries may never heal.
Kennedy admitted assault to severe injury. Gerrard McGuire, defending, said: 'Mr Kennedy was shattered by the events of that night and has found it very difficult to get over this matter.
'He has spoken to Mr Graham on several occasions and apologised. It was horseplay that went badly wrong.'
Sheriff Kiernan McLernan said he recognised that there was no malicious intent.
He said: 'Had there been any inference of intent then you would be serving a long period in custody
Just damn.
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Ah! Thanks!
MHK...
Nice job on O'R last night.
You are always so unflappable.
'Bum'mer!
I can see how this can happen. People don't realize how powerful compressed air is. They routinely work with it. They hear "50 pounds per sq.inch" or something like that our machinery can easily create and don't realize they can be literally torn apart by that. People need to take a pressure gauge and see how much pressure they can produce. It takes huge amounts of energy to create 50# compression of a significant volume of air - but that is so common place for us that it isn't respected much.
Our incredible technology is not respected and this type of thing gets played out in many ways.
That explains why the compensation is so small. £4500 didn't seem like nearly enough for that kind of injury.
LOL!
That right there is your first indication something is not right.
Yep. The National Health Service will cover all his medical expenses, so that amount (about 7 grand American) is for him.
Is anyone surprised to find out they had been drinking?
How long before Big Momma Gubmint requires a warning on all air compressors to not inflate oneself with them?
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Another Brit language usage when American English would be so much more......crude.:)
Kristofor went home for treatment because he didn't want his mum to be forced to travel north to see him in hospital.
Well, yes, no doubt he didn't want to have his dear old mum inspect his injured 'back passage' and try to tell her that it could have happened to anyone.....
'He then felt an object being placed in his back passage and he became aware of a loud hissing sound and the fire extinguisher being discharged.
'He was in immediate pain but didn't realise the extent of his pain until he got up to go to work and realised he was bleeding from his rectum.'
Are you telling me this wasn't such an outrageous and unexpected event that the victim simply overlooked it until the following morning?
I think he was expecting a 'bum' steer but got something a little different.
FIRE IN THE HOLE! Just damn!
oh, crap!
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