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Man Nearly Explodes After Compressed Air Valve Lodges In Buttocks
LA Times ^ | 2/16/2014 | LA Times

Posted on 02/16/2014 7:32:56 PM PST by Dallas59

WHAKATANE, New Zealand (PIX11)— New Zealand trucker Steven McCormack is either the luckiest or unluckiest person in the world, depending on one’s perspective.

McCormack was working on his tractor trailer at a gas station in Whakatane, on the North Island’s east coast, when he slipped and fell, landing on a broken high pressure air valve.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: air; blowup; butt; celebratediversity; likelystory; milliontooneshot; newzealand; stevenmccormack; whakatane
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To: RichInOC

No worries. Have some beans.


61 posted on 02/16/2014 10:59:34 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Dallas59

Rectum?! It dang near killed him! :)


62 posted on 02/16/2014 11:27:13 PM PST by Horkster ("Money will buy most anything in this country - even a Muslim Communist Presidency." - RoadTest)
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To: Dallas59

63 posted on 02/17/2014 12:34:36 AM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Reminds me of the time we caught a psych patient carrying an old style soda-acid fire extinguisher down the hall. Asked him why he had it, and he told us his room mate ‘needed an enema, and the nurse wouldn’t give him one.”


64 posted on 02/17/2014 12:53:26 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: heartwood
I don’t know why the LA Times is bringing this up now, it happened almost three years ago. A perennial favorite, I guess.

Because nobody will bother reading the "Three Arabs Set RV Cruise Control Then Went Into The Kitchen" story any more.

65 posted on 02/17/2014 1:02:04 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Helpful fellow.


66 posted on 02/17/2014 1:02:36 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I’ve seen animals skinned using the same method.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJr5wkfmbvM


67 posted on 02/17/2014 4:25:57 AM PST by Dusty Road
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To: Dallas59; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

WHAKATANE, New Zealand — “Did you put on a few pounds, or did you do a Whakatane job on yourself?”


68 posted on 02/17/2014 5:57:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Trod Upon

It’s fusilli Jerry!


69 posted on 02/17/2014 7:35:15 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: heartwood
Not only does he suffer a grotesque injury, he’s the subject of jokes...

Don't you mean "he's the Butt of cruel jokes"?

70 posted on 02/17/2014 7:35:26 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Dallas59

71 posted on 02/17/2014 7:42:11 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: SunkenCiv; mikrofon; martin_fierro

News from Down Under.


72 posted on 02/17/2014 8:54:31 AM PST by Charles Henrickson
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To: Charles Henrickson
Haven't read the article but sounds like something out of A Thousand Ways To Die.
73 posted on 02/17/2014 8:57:16 AM PST by mware
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To: Charles Henrickson; SunkenCiv; martin_fierro

"I Can't Let Go"

74 posted on 02/17/2014 10:03:07 AM PST by mikrofon (So, what's 1K miles...)
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