INFLATED TRUCKER
For once, the “I fell on it, and it went up my bottom” excuse seems to be genuine. In May 2011 New Zealand trucker Steven McCormack fell between his truck and its trailer and broke an air line. The nozzle penetrated his buttocks and continued to pump air at the rate of 100lb per square inch (7 kilogram-force per square centimetre). “I felt the air rush into my body and I felt like it was going to explode from my foot,” he said. “I had no choice but just to lie there, blowing up like a balloon.” Other truckers rescued him, turned off the hose and put him on his side to help him to breathe, but not before the air pressure had separated most of his fat from his muscle, leaving McCormack in excruciating pain. In hospital, he described his skin as feeling “like a pork roast” with
