sanantoniosooner
6/3/2007, 10:11 PM
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=51373&in_page_id=2
Man in unfortunate bottom plunger incident
Friday, June 1, 2007
The following story is reported with a certain degree of scepticism, as it sounds just too good (well, bad) to be true. It is, however, funny. So...
A German man almost died after using a sink plunger as a bath plug and impaling himself in the backside after slipping on a bar of soap.
Dieter Bayer, 79, who moved to live in Switzerland with his wife Frieda after he retired, decided to use the plunger to keep the water in when he had a bath because he could not find the bath plug.
But as he stood up to soap himself he slipped and fell heavily on the plunger, wedging the wooden handle far up his bottom.
His wife, 68, who rushed to the bathroom when she heard him screaming in pain, was unable to pull him free and called emergency services.
An ambulance spokesman said: 'There was a lot of blood, the injury was very serious, he could have died.'
Doctors operated for eight hours to repair the damage, and believe he will now recover, although it will be at least two weeks before he can leave hospital.
Man in unfortunate bottom plunger incident
Friday, June 1, 2007
The following story is reported with a certain degree of scepticism, as it sounds just too good (well, bad) to be true. It is, however, funny. So...
A German man almost died after using a sink plunger as a bath plug and impaling himself in the backside after slipping on a bar of soap.
Dieter Bayer, 79, who moved to live in Switzerland with his wife Frieda after he retired, decided to use the plunger to keep the water in when he had a bath because he could not find the bath plug.
But as he stood up to soap himself he slipped and fell heavily on the plunger, wedging the wooden handle far up his bottom.
His wife, 68, who rushed to the bathroom when she heard him screaming in pain, was unable to pull him free and called emergency services.
An ambulance spokesman said: 'There was a lot of blood, the injury was very serious, he could have died.'
Doctors operated for eight hours to repair the damage, and believe he will now recover, although it will be at least two weeks before he can leave hospital.