Bob Nattering
01-08-2010, 06:46 AM
I'm just reporting news as it comes down the pipe, but Caution Read at Your Own Risk!
Seems like there is a gentleman in the UK who may not know that pipe sizes can be specified as outside diameter or inside diameter:
This just in from Mirror.co.uk/news (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/07/firefighters-cut-free-man-s-penis-from-steel-pipe-115875-21949391/):
A man who went to casualty with his penis stuck in a steel pipe had to be cut free by firefighters using a metal grinder.
Medics at Southampton General Hospital could not get the man's penis out of the stainless steel pipe because the restricted blood flow had caused it to become aroused.
So they called in Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service.
They turned up with a special equipment unit from St Mary's station in Southampton and seven firefighters to help in what a spokesman said was a "delicate operation".
The firefighters used the four-and-a-half-inch grinder to cut the pipe from around the man's penis and it took about 30 minutes.
The patient was given an anaesthetic and his penis was left bruised and swollen but otherwise unharmed.
The anxious man aged about 40 gave hospital staff no explanation about how the pipe got stuck after he turned up on Tuesday morning.
A Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: "Initially the crew did not have the appropriate cutting equipment to free the man.
"It was a very delicate operation that required a very steady hand and the crew was worried about things getting too hot during the cutting.
"It's certainly an unusual call-out and I'm sure the man won't be getting into that situation again."
Well if that isn't enough, I thought the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service sounded familiar. Sure enough, I think they're the same bunch in this YouTube video, "The Red Sparrows (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_lXqMmevog). Notice the sign over the firehouse at 20 seconds into the video.
I had to wonder, if the victim had seen this video. If so, can you imagine what was going through his mind when they turned on the grinder.
Seems like there is a gentleman in the UK who may not know that pipe sizes can be specified as outside diameter or inside diameter:
This just in from Mirror.co.uk/news (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/07/firefighters-cut-free-man-s-penis-from-steel-pipe-115875-21949391/):
A man who went to casualty with his penis stuck in a steel pipe had to be cut free by firefighters using a metal grinder.
Medics at Southampton General Hospital could not get the man's penis out of the stainless steel pipe because the restricted blood flow had caused it to become aroused.
So they called in Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service.
They turned up with a special equipment unit from St Mary's station in Southampton and seven firefighters to help in what a spokesman said was a "delicate operation".
The firefighters used the four-and-a-half-inch grinder to cut the pipe from around the man's penis and it took about 30 minutes.
The patient was given an anaesthetic and his penis was left bruised and swollen but otherwise unharmed.
The anxious man aged about 40 gave hospital staff no explanation about how the pipe got stuck after he turned up on Tuesday morning.
A Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: "Initially the crew did not have the appropriate cutting equipment to free the man.
"It was a very delicate operation that required a very steady hand and the crew was worried about things getting too hot during the cutting.
"It's certainly an unusual call-out and I'm sure the man won't be getting into that situation again."
Well if that isn't enough, I thought the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service sounded familiar. Sure enough, I think they're the same bunch in this YouTube video, "The Red Sparrows (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_lXqMmevog). Notice the sign over the firehouse at 20 seconds into the video.
I had to wonder, if the victim had seen this video. If so, can you imagine what was going through his mind when they turned on the grinder.