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  • Man Turns to Human Balloon After Falling on Air Hose

    WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A truck driver from New Zealand said he felt “like a pork roast” as a compressed air hose pierced his buttock, forcing air into his body at 100 pounds a square inch.

    Steven McCormack was standing on his truck’s foot plate Saturday when he slipped and fell.

    The air hose broke off the air reservoir that powered the truck’s brakes, and when McCormack fell onto it, it began pumping air into his body.

    He said he had no choice but to lie on the ground, “blowing up like a balloon.”

    McCormack’s co-workers heard his screams and came over to him. One of them quickly released the safety valve to stop the air flow.

    "I felt the air rush into my body, and I felt like it was going to explode from my foot," he told local media from his hospital bed in the town of Whakatane, on North Island's east coast. "I was blowing up like a football."

    McCormack was rushed to the hospital with body swelling and fluid in his lung. Doctors said the air had separated the fat from muscle in his body – he was lucky it had not entered his bloodstream.

    The 48-year-old said he felt like a ‘pork roast’ because his skin was crackling on the outside, but soft on the inside.
    Man Turns to 'Human Balloon' After Falling on Air Hose - FoxNews.com

    What are the odds?

    Now that I think about it, I should have put this in the "Only in New Zealand Thread."

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    No it wasn't me
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Parihaka View Post
      No it wasn't me
      Oh....

      There goes my smart-alecky comment for the day.....

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      • #4


        No, seriously, an air-hose accidentally piercing his buttock.....pal-eeease.

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        • #5
          I see a new trend in enemas....

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          • #6
            You gotta admit, his comment about being a pork roast is kinda funny ;)
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            • #7
              Well blow me down , or up ,

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Julie View Post


                No, seriously, an air-hose accidentally piercing his buttock.....pal-eeease.
                Well it did pierce his left cheek. Guess his aim was a little off!
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Julie View Post
                  No, seriously, an air-hose accidentally piercing his buttock.....pal-eeease.
                  Was thinking violation of Newton's 3rd law of motion.

                  For every action there is an equal an opposite reaction.

                  How long can one stay impaled(?) on to a hose pumping out air at 100psi

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                  • #10
                    The story is very hard to beleive - how does an air hose pierce flesh? - and why doesn't it blow itself back out if it could?
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Double Edge View Post
                      Was thinking violation of Newton's 3rd law of motion.

                      For every action there is an equal an opposite reaction.

                      How long can one stay impaled(?) on to a hose pumping out air at 100psi
                      I have no idea....BUT...I bet his buttocks looked like a busted can of biscuits.

                      This article is really no good without PITCHERS !!! ;)

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                      • #12
                        Don't wanna see any pictures

                        I am guessing that since he fell on it he was still laying on it so it couldn't come out. His body was instantly in shock with all the new, "sensations" and thus he may have lost major motor control of his muscles. It wouldn't take more that a couple of seconds to do major internal damage. I bet he has a good idea of what people feel like the day after lipo surgery.
                        Removing a single turd from the cesspool doesn't make any difference.

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                        • #13
                          I think it was a joint mounted on the truck, so fixed in position. His mum reckoned he had swelled up to 3 times his normal size, even his eyelids had swelled
                          In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.

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                          • #14
                            I wonder if the swelling affected his ...erm.....nevermind.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by USSWisconsin View Post
                              The story is very hard to beleive - how does an air hose pierce flesh? - and why doesn't it blow itself back out if it could?

                              Good question. I'll try it out later and get back to you.

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