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#1 09-05-2003, 02:03 PM

Jackass warning after horrific firecracker accident

Doctors in Australia have urged people to not to attempt Jackass style stunts after a man burnt his genitals in a firecracker accident.

The 26-year-old Australian man suffered a fractured pelvis and severe burns when a firecracker exploded between the cheeks of his buttocks.

The incident has left the man, from Illawarra, New South Wales, incontinent and unable to have sex and he is expected to remain in hospital for several months.

Dr Robert McCurdie, who operated on the man when he was taken to Wollongong Hospital, likened the man's condition to "a war injury".

Dr McCurdie said he believed the man had stumbled while the firecracker was in his buttocks, and fell down on it.

"By virtue of the fact that the explosion was confined in an upward direction, it went up into his pelvis, blasted a great hole in the pelvis, ruptured the urethra, injured muscles in the floor of the pelvis which rendered him incontinent. His pelvis was also fractured."

It is not known whether the man was imitating the cult prankster film Jackass in which men place firecrackers in their buttocks and shoot them into the air.

Acting Senior Sergeant John Klepczarek said the danger with movies like Jackass was that some people were tempted to try the stunts at home.

"They're putting themselves at risk, and other people. We do caution people strongly against following these acts," he said.

rickg · #2 09-05-2003, 02:13 PM

Another Darwin award winner

Too bad he didn't have it up his nose, and then fell forwards. Would have stopped his DNA chain right then and there.

#3 09-05-2003, 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by rickg
Another Darwin award winner
Too bad he didn't have it up his nose, and then fell forwards. Would have stopped his DNA chain right then and there.

Maybe he did anyway

rickg · #4 09-05-2003, 02:25 PM

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Originally posted by rsbiomedical
Maybe he did anyway

Oh yeah. Missed that

G-Benz · #5 09-05-2003, 03:51 PM

There is supposed to be a new show on (Discovery, TLC or whatever) where two guys host, and they try some of the Darwinian stunts to see if they were at all possible and what the ultimate effects (or demise) would be.

I plan to watch the episode where they duplicate the scenario where some guy strapped rockets to his Chevy and ended up a pancake on the side of a mountain!

rickg · #6 09-05-2003, 03:52 PM

Oh yeah! I saw the previews to that too. Looks like a hoot!!

Botnst · #7 09-05-2003, 04:06 PM

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Originally posted by G-Benz
There is supposed to be a new show on (Discovery, TLC or whatever) where two guys host, and they try some of the Darwinian stunts to see if they were at all possible and what the ultimate effects (or demise) would be.

I plan to watch the episode where they duplicate the scenario where some guy strapped rockets to his Chevy and ended up a pancake on the side of a mountain!

Several years ago "Wired" magazine had a lengthy article on some folks involved in what was perhaps the progenitor of that urban legend.

Botnst

rickg · #8 09-05-2003, 04:10 PM

while we're on the subject:
http://www.darwinawards.com/