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Leg lost in cannon blast
A MAN who tried to fire a plaster-filled beer can from a homemade cannon lost a leg in a blast that peppered a car with shrapnel and exploded a gas cylinder, a Perth hospital said.Stoopid is something that's going around today, isn't it? The 52-year-old suffered severe burns and shrapnel injuries to both legs after trying to fire a can of Emu Draught from a metre-long pipe mounted on a metal plate last weekend. The makeshift gunpowder-filled cannon backfired, shooting hot metal and plaster shrapnel through the man's legs before blasting through a metal shed and a caravan. The man remains in Royal Perth Hospital in a stable condition. Physically stable, anyway... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-09-13 |
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