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Strewth!
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 10:38 pm
by spot
Or whatever they say in New Zealand.
I can't really quote a line from this, it's all or nothing. My word. Cripes. Ruddy Nora.
BBC News - New Zealand trucker 'blown up like balloon' by air hose
My congratulations on surviving, Mr McCormack. That must have really put a crimp in your week.
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 2:50 am
by Ahso!
It'll be fun for the grandkids hearing about the incident.
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 3:21 am
by Accountable
Augh! That gave me the shivers. So is his skin now going to hang on him like a loose bag?
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 8:04 am
by Odie
ugh! that was terrifying.
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 10:31 am
by Lon
spot;1360265 wrote: Or whatever they say in New Zealand.
I can't really quote a line from this, it's all or nothing. My word. Cripes. Ruddy Nora.
BBC News - New Zealand trucker 'blown up like balloon' by air hose
My congratulations on surviving, Mr McCormack. That must have really put a crimp in your week.
Typical Kiwi response would be "Bloody Hell"
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 10:47 am
by CARLA
Yikes..!!
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 11:49 am
by YZGI
Maybe he should try a hooker next time.
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 5:46 pm
by Accountable
YZGI;1360309 wrote: Maybe he should try a hooker next time.
:yh_rotfl
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 7:23 pm
by Scrat
I'm calling BS on it. Just what kind of an air fitting was it? Why did he just sit there and let it blow him up like a balloon? Is he stupid or something? Lots of holes in this one.
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 8:19 pm
by flopstock
I'm glad to hear he wasn't doing what I thought he might have been doing.
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 11:39 pm
by spot
Scrat, I think he landed heavily on a fixed part of the compressed air system, snapped a tube and had a rigid metal punch through his skin. It's not the end of the hose stuck up his jacksie, the wording is just overly coy.
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 7:24 am
by Scrat
I can see that happening and doctors do use air in some procedures to inflate parts of the thorax/trunk of the body so that they can work. I understand the physics of the incident very well as I work with air systems a lot. I can see it happening but it's an incredible mishap, too incredible I think. We shall see. Snopes has nothing on it as of last night.
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:51 pm
by farmer giles
Scrat;1360327 wrote: I'm calling BS on it. Just what kind of an air fitting was it? Why did he just sit there and let it blow him up like a balloon? Is he stupid or something? Lots of holes in this one.:-3:-3:wah::wah:
well there was A Hole or was that ahole
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 3:09 pm
by Bryn Mawr
farmer giles;1361475 wrote: :-3:-3:wah::wah:
well there was A Hole or was that ahole
Well I have a pain in the ahole - would that be my Farmer Giles? Gooday blue, well come and well met :-6
