"Do something, Slade! I'm gonna BURST!"

Grant Goggans · 25 May, 2011, 04:04:05 PM

I can't be the only one who thought of that classic Robo-Hunter cover when reading about this unfortunate trucker in New Zealand...

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/compressed-air-turns-nz-956532.html

blackmocco · 25 May, 2011, 05:03:46 PM

"Fell". Suuuuuure....

House of Usher · 25 May, 2011, 06:06:11 PM

Quote from: blackmocco on 25 May, 2011, 05:03:46 PM
"Fell". Suuuuuure....

Erm - well, he didn't actually stick the air hose up his pipe! He was lucky all the air was forced under his skin rather than into his bloodstream. Urgh, horrible.

$:-\$

vzzbux · 25 May, 2011, 06:12:53 PM

AWWWW. I was expecting to see video footage.

V

House of Usher · 25 May, 2011, 06:27:46 PM

Quote from: vzzbux on 25 May, 2011, 06:12:53 PM
AWWWW. I was expecting to see video footage.

I have a transcript of the audio:

"Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft - BANG !!"

strontium71 · 25 May, 2011, 07:02:53 PM

Quote from: blackmocco on 25 May, 2011, 05:03:46 PM
"Fell". Suuuuuure....

That's what I was going to say - 'Fell? Yeah,right'

House of Usher · 25 May, 2011, 07:07:35 PM

Do people often stab themselves with high pressure air hoses for kicks?

Jared Katooie · 25 May, 2011, 07:54:47 PM

A naive question.

House of Usher · 25 May, 2011, 08:06:13 PM

Quote from: Jared Katooie on 25 May, 2011, 07:54:47 PM
A naive question.

Oh no. You're putting me on! It really does seem there's nothing so obscure people won't give it a whirl. It's like a Mega-City One craze. Why would anyone want to separate their skin from their muscle in order to look like a balloon? Gross.

I did once read about pranksters in Thailand using the tyre hose at petrol stations to inflate their rectums and do loud farts of a long duration for the amusement of their friends. Resulted in a few emergency bowel resections, apparently.

vzzbux · 25 May, 2011, 08:17:26 PM

You seem to be taking quite an interest in this USH. Is there something your not telling us.

V

Van Dom · 25 May, 2011, 08:42:51 PM

Oh My Gravy.
What the hell would anybody want to do that for???
And, yeah, "I slipped and fell on it" my ass!!

House of Usher · 25 May, 2011, 09:42:38 PM

Quote from: vzzbux on 25 May, 2011, 08:17:26 PM
You seem to be taking quite an interest in this USH. Is there something your not telling us.

Nope. I neither wish to flay myself for fun, nor inflate my rectum. Just so you know.

JOE SOAP · 25 May, 2011, 09:51:29 PM

Regardless, there's plenty of windbags on this forum but it's good job it wasn't a tank of helium:

Seems like a sound bloke if a bit bloated.

"you just had to fart it out, burp it out..."

http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/51268.html

DrJomster · 25 May, 2011, 10:25:15 PM

This would have been a good one for that recent Zombo book where those kids were trying to top themselves in ever more interesting ways! Tasteless perhaps but quite appropriate I'd say!