Man farts during surgery, ignites genitals

[niceypoo]

A 30 year old man in Denmark is walking a little more gingerly lately, after a minor surgery to his buttocks turned into a smoldering mess.

The man was laying on an operating table in a local hospital having a mole removed from his buttocks. The doctor was using an electric scalpel to remove the mole and cauterize the incision, when the man passed gas. The electric scalpel combined with the methane gas was enough to create a spark that ignited the surgical spirits covering the man’s genitals, setting them on fire.

http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-man-farts-during-surgery-and-sets-his-genitals-on-fire/">Article here

[Deja Q]

1. Oops.

More like "Poops".

:spray:

[fortyfeetunder]

2. Adds a whole new meaning to the term "hot pants"

Yoooouch!

[aquart]

3. It's a cruel world.

[Deja Q]

21. Certainly not a cool world...

:rofl:

[jpak]

4. Please - someone forward this to my nephews before its too late!!1111

poor bastard

Series

[smokey nj]

5. Now that's what I call a wiener roast!

[Beaverhausen]

6. shame on me for laughing, but farts are funny

this poor guy :rofl: That has to be really painful :rofl: I hope he's OK :rofl:

[pipi_k]

23. I'm with you...

I think farts are incredibly funny, and even the word "fart" is enough to make me giggle.

:7

[pink-o]

37. So have you ever done "Fartleks"?

Sounds horrible, but it's a real training method for runners--and a good one, too to increase your speed if you can get past the Bevis and Butthead giggles over the name!!


link here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartlek


It's Swedish, and "fart" in Germanic languages means "exit" or "path" (maybe that's how it got its English meaning...?)

Laughing at rude-sounding foreign words or proper names has become a liability for me, since I work in the travel industry! I know one day I'm gonna introduce myself to someone in Iceland, or Upper Volta, and my name will cause them hysterics, cuz it means something filthy in their language!!

[CTyankee]

7. THat's socialized health care for you!

Please,though, what are "surgical spirits"? Is that some kind of witchcraft?

[kath]

39. Rubbing alcoho ( or something very similar) used to cleanse the area before surgery.

[libodem]

8. I'm sorry

Is it wrong to laugh?

[Canuckistanian]

9. Yikes

I would NEVER want my nether regions to be described as "a smoldering mess".

:scared:

[reflection]

10. IBTMTL

on edit: haha

[DrDan]

11. goodness - gracious - great balls of fire . . . .

[Beaverhausen]

12. DUzy

[BlooInBloo]

16. Win.

[niceypoo]

18. Ok

...now that made me laugh...lol

[northernlights]

34. great balls afire!

good one! :rofl:

[charlie]

13. Woman uses lighter to check gas can level, blows up car

A Joliet woman suffered second-degree burns Tuesday night after she used a cigarette lighter to help her see how much gas was in a can she was been filling.

The incident happened at a 7-Eleven gas station at 1609 E. Cass about 10:30 p.m., police said.

The 27-year-old woman "was filling up a gas can, which was sitting on the passenger seat of the car. then used a lighter to . . . observe how full the can was," police said.

The flame ignited the gas, and the can exploded, setting the car's interior aflame...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1741354,CST-NWS-lighter29.article

[create.peace]

22. darwin award contender, fer shure....nt

[Ferret Annica]

28. She'd be dangerous in a boat

She probably would drill a hole in the bottom of it to let the water out instead of bailing.

[niceypoo]

30. I am amazed that she lived through it

With only a burned wrist

[TexasObserver]

14. Even more remarkable - his doctor's name: Dr. Pullmyfinger.

[recycled]

15. ROFL!!!!! I hope the guy's okay, though

but this is too much! It's embarrassing enough to fart in public as it is!:rofl:

[thelordofhell]

17. Silent, but deadly

:nuke:

[intheflow]

19. This OP is brought to you by niceypoo.

Somehow, that username seems fitting to the topic. :silly:

[niceypoo]

33. : )

:patriot:

[Texasgal]

20. This is horrible

but I cannot stop laughing!!

[pipi_k]

24. well, he's probably going to be hairless down there for a while

But seriously...they really need to plug people's assholes before any kind of surgery involving heat. Or maybe put a pipe in that diverts the gas to a sealed container...


:rofl:

[AieinAristuein]

27. it's the spirits or alcohol they prep the skin with that's the issue

the reason few surgeons use it for that purpose any more. They use betadine, that funny yellow staining stuff or something like it that is non flammable

[Contrary1]

25. I'm trying to get a visual here, since the OP failed to provide pics...

[izzybeans]

26. Just a little off topic, but that link...it tracks back to a poster named Peggy Wang.

It looks like those lovable Tragic Comedy fates aligned perfectly for us, full circle even, on this viral story. Talk about a comprehensive "Dick Joke"...this one has nearly everything.

[Iggo]

29. That's the story the operating team is going with?

LOL...nice.:fistbump:

[niceypoo]

31. Blame the victim...

:rofl:

[Libertas1776]

32. Was this from an

episode of Jackass: Denmark or something? :shrug:

[imdjh]

35. How rude to fart while a doctor is working on you.

[armyowalgreens]

36. My balls hurt just thinking about that.

[struggle4progress]

38. This story apparently dates from 2002:

04-15-2002, 01:27 PM
stryfe
Senior Robot
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 12,235

<a
href="http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_566545.html">Patient
having op on backside breaks wind, causing fire</a href>

A Danish man having surgery on his backside broke wind and set
his genitals alight.

A surgeon was removing a mole on his backside with an electric
knife when the man broke wind, lighting a spark.

His genitals had been washed with surgical spirits and caught
fire ...

http://www.giantrobot.com/forums/showthread.php?p=150874

It's bullshit: Ananova doesn't seem to be a particularly good
source, and there's no good reason to soak somebody's
genitalia with alcohol to remove a mole from the buttocks. 

[Berry Cool]

40. I had a feeling something didn't smell right about this story (so to speak).

Sounds waaaaaaay too much like an urban legend without enough details to authenticate it and not realistic enough to buy.

Also, when I traced it back to the Web site spreading it around, all they had was an old news clipping (could be from the National Midnight Star for all we know) and the mention of a city in Denmark where it supposedly happened. They prefaced the story by saying "Apparently..."

It's been my experience that in just about any news item someone passes along and prefaces with wording starting with the word "Apparently...", absolutely nothing is actually "apparent." It's used more as a synonym for "Here's a story someone sent us, don't know whether or not it's true, but who cares, it's such a hilarious story we had to pass it along..."

[niceypoo]

41. I got it off of Thom Hartman's newsletter email from yesterday

Go figure

[struggle4progress]

43. There are multiple versions of the story. In the B.T. version from 2002, the operation

was over when some hypothetical residual "glow" set the patient afire: this tabloid tale (which ends with a joke about buttplugs) was curiously updated in 2006 -- perhaps to alter a name to prevent a lawsuit? The Ananova version, also from 2002, claimed the horrid accident occurred during the operation. In 2006, a UK columnist claims to have found the tale in an old but unspecified medical journal -- and it is an operating room cataclysm that sets a nurse's hair on fire before the operation is even properly underway. The tale reappeared in a new wave of internet postings in July 2008

[struggle4progress]

42. Interesting comments at the Museum of Hoaxes site about a year ago:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/5348/

Following up on some of their links, a 2006 Evening Standard writer claims to have found the story "while browsing through some old medical journals in the British Library recently." He does not say which journals, and I've already pointed out Ananova ran the story in 2002:

Surgical Fast Track to Disaster
Posted on: Friday, 10 March 2006, 18:00 CST
By VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH
Sweeney Investigates
BBC2
WHILE browsing through some old medical journals in the British Library recently, I came across a report by Dr Jorn Kristensen of Kjellerups hospital in Denmark. Entitled "An Unsuccessful Operation", it explained that a patient had arrived in surgery "to have a mole removed from his left buttock", then described how anaesthetic was administered, while the patient's genitals and buttocks were washed with surgical spirit, in preparation for the routine operation. Unfortunately, the unconscious patient suddenly broke wind, his flatus was ignited by a spark from the surgeon's electrical knife, which in turn set fire to the surgical spirit, and everything burst into flames. When the smoke died down, the surgeon saw that his patient's penis, scrotum and buttocks had received second-degree burns, and all his pubic hair was very badly singed. A nurse's hair had also caught alight, and the fire alarm had begun ringing, so the team immediately abandoned the operation. The patient later sued the hospital for pain, loss of income, and temporary removal of his conjugal rights, and apparently still has the mole ... http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/423846/surgical_fast_track_to_disaster/index.html

Also, there is this story in a Danish paper, BT, from 2002, curiously indicating an update in 2006:

Penis forbrændt af en prut
LEIF HANSEN - Fredag den 12. april 2002, 00:00
Opdateret: Tirsdag den 21. november 2006, 01:12
http://www.bt.dk/nyheder/penis-forbraendt-af-en-prut

Google translate gives:

Burned by a penis fart
LEIF HANSEN - Fredag den 12. Leif Hansen - Friday the 12th april 2002, 00:00
Updated: Tuesday, 21 november 2006, 01:12 November 2006, 01:12
... Jorgen Olsen, 30, from Hammershøj between Silkeborg and Viborg, has been on sick leave for six weeks after surgery on Kjellerup Hospital. "When I woke up after surgery 13th February, it was immediately with severe pain in the buttocks, among other things .... intern Jørn Ulrik Kristensen, who performed the operation, said: "We have changed the security process on the kind of operations after the accident ... The operation itself was over and the knife to electro-coagulation put to one side. But there must have been a glow from the operation in the vicinity. If there are flatus ... The course consists of hydrogen sulphide, which is a dangerous fuel gas, and this may be why there suddenly appeared a flashover around the patient's lower parts. We do not believe this kind of accident could happen again" .... there are no plans to put a stopper in the buttock in patients during surgery. http://translate.google.com