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Compressed air turns NZ trucker into human balloon
Associated Press ^ | May 24, 2011

Posted on 05/24/2011 6:59:35 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand truck driver said he blew up like a balloon when he fell onto the fitting of a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock and forced 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, breaking a compressed air hose off an air reservoir that powered the truck's brakes.

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KEYWORDS: humanballoon; itsjustsex; milliontooneshot; windbag
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To: Free ThinkerNY

http://www.well.com/~cynsa/newbutt.html


41 posted on 05/24/2011 10:16:45 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: Free ThinkerNY

just in time for duke nukem gold!

ok... he may never have shoved an airhose into any aliens to blow them up.

it’s not that he wouldn’t, it’s just that duke’s never had an air hose handy


42 posted on 05/24/2011 10:31:13 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Maceman

“More beans?” “I’d say you’ve had enough.”


43 posted on 05/24/2011 10:37:47 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“I fell on it, okay?”
44 posted on 05/24/2011 10:38:48 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: null and void

Was just thinking the same. . .


45 posted on 05/25/2011 12:10:39 AM PDT by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not madhttp://atlasshrugs2000e in the USA either.. .)
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To: null and void

Was just thinking the same. . .


46 posted on 05/25/2011 12:10:50 AM PDT by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not madhttp://atlasshrugs2000e in the USA either.. .)
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To: null and void

Was just thinking the same. . .


47 posted on 05/25/2011 12:10:57 AM PDT by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not madhttp://atlasshrugs2000e in the USA either.. .)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
“Million-to-one shot, doc. Million-to-one.”

Exactly.

48 posted on 05/25/2011 12:15:32 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

sounds like subcutaneous emphysema...usually it’s not too dangerous as long as the air doesn’t get into a major blood vessel.

we sometimes see it from lung injuries or people on respirators.


49 posted on 05/25/2011 12:53:17 AM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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