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Soldier injured in London blast.

PsychoticDan
10-11-2006, 17:26
A soldier just back from the Iraq war was injured in a blast during a London festival. He makes it out of Iraq uninjured and then gets hurt in a blast in London. Go figure.

LONDON - A 22-year-old man suffered internal injuries after lighting a small firecracker he had inserted into his buttocks, paramedics said Thursday.

The incident took place Sunday, when Britain celebrated Bonfire Night, traditionally marked with fireworks to celebrate the Guy Fawkes’ gunpowder plot to blow up Parliament in the 17th century.

The man suffered burns and other unspecified internal injuries in the incident in Sunderland, 275 miles north of London.

Katherine Shenton, a spokeswoman for the North East Ambulance Service, said a caller had phoned in that the victim was bleeding after the firecracker exploded.

Several of the man’s friends recorded the incident on a mobile phone. The blurry images show a man bent over with his pants down and a white flash as the firecracker explodes.

The Times newspaper reported the man is a soldier who recently returned from Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15643614/
JuNii
10-11-2006, 17:30
Idunno about not being injured in Iraq... something happened to him to make him do this...

A 22-year-old man suffered internal injuries after lighting a small firecracker he had inserted into his buttocks, paramedics said Thursday.


Guess he just wanted to get it in the end... :p
Fartsniffage
10-11-2006, 17:32
The man suffered burns and other unspecified internal injuries in the incident in Sunderland, 275 miles north of London.

It was Sunderland not London.

The poor fellow had probably been enjoying a quality of life in Iraq that he could never hope to achieve in Sunderland and decided to end it all with a firecracker up the arse :p
Khadgar
10-11-2006, 17:32
Hahaha...


:D
PsychoticDan
10-11-2006, 17:33
Guess he just wanted to get it in the end... :p

Okay, man. There was no cause for that. You need to apologize. :mad:
Khadgar
10-11-2006, 17:34
I see London I see France.. Is that a bomb in your pants?
The Potato Factory
10-11-2006, 17:35
The comparison of parliament and his ass; I like the metaphor.
JuNii
10-11-2006, 17:35
Okay, man. There was no cause for that. You need to apologize. :mad:Ok, I apologize for making fun of a person who sticks a firecracker between the cheeks and lights it...

while having friends record it on their phones.
:cool:
LiberationFrequency
10-11-2006, 17:35
The sad thing is this guy is actually given access to real explosives
Fartsniffage
10-11-2006, 17:38
Its already on youtube if anyones interested. I won't provide the link but a search for 'firework arse' brings it up top of the list.