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November 9th, 2006, 03:17 PM
Backside firework prank backfires
A man suffered internal burns when he tried to launch a rocket from his bottom on Bonfire Night.
Paramedics found the 22-year-old, bleeding and with the firework lodged inside him, after receiving reports of the incident in Sunderland.
He was taken to hospital with injuries including a scorched colon caused by the Black Cat Thunderbolt Rocket.
A spokesman for the Firework Association described the bizarre prank as "beyond belief".
'Hopefully isolated'
He said: "We have spent a long time working with the Government to create laws that make fireworks safer and better for the public.
"This incident is very concerning but hopefully an isolated one."
It is thought that the man could have been copying a scene from the controversial film Jackass: The Movie.
A North East Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We received a call stating there was a male who had a firework in his bottom and it was bleeding.
"He was attended to and taken to Sunderland Royal Hospital."
Northumbria Police said they were aware of the incident, which happened in the Dame Dorothy Street area of Monkwearmouth, but are understood not to be carrying out further inquiries.
BBC News Link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/6132140.stm)
A man suffered internal burns when he tried to launch a rocket from his bottom on Bonfire Night.
Paramedics found the 22-year-old, bleeding and with the firework lodged inside him, after receiving reports of the incident in Sunderland.
He was taken to hospital with injuries including a scorched colon caused by the Black Cat Thunderbolt Rocket.
A spokesman for the Firework Association described the bizarre prank as "beyond belief".
'Hopefully isolated'
He said: "We have spent a long time working with the Government to create laws that make fireworks safer and better for the public.
"This incident is very concerning but hopefully an isolated one."
It is thought that the man could have been copying a scene from the controversial film Jackass: The Movie.
A North East Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We received a call stating there was a male who had a firework in his bottom and it was bleeding.
"He was attended to and taken to Sunderland Royal Hospital."
Northumbria Police said they were aware of the incident, which happened in the Dame Dorothy Street area of Monkwearmouth, but are understood not to be carrying out further inquiries.
BBC News Link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/6132140.stm)