A Likely Story

Truck driver said he blew up like a balloon when he fell onto the fitting of an air hose that pierced his buttock.

Oh suuuuuure, that's what they aaaaaaall say.

Although I'll have to say, he did pick a unique twist on the "foreign objects impaling the backside" story. Usually, my victims just fall off a ladder onto a paint roller while painting their house in the nude, or slip into the shower onto a conventionaly shaped shampoo bottle…

I'll bet this poor guy will be a popular fellow on teaching rounds for the next week or so, with an endless stream of young residents and medical students traipsing through his room while the attending says, "This is what subcutaneous emphysema feels like…"