Tuesday 26 July 2011

Smoking/Toilet Break Of The Week

From The Brisbane Times:

A man from the Royal Australian Air Force who suffered horrific burns in a portaloo explosion, remains in a serious condition. The man received third-degree burns to his head, face, arms, chest and airways in the incident at the Rockhampton airport about 9.30am yesterday.

The Department of Community Safety said it's believed the man was lighting a cigarette at the time, a spokeswoman said. He was taken to the Rockhampton Hospital but transferred to the burns unit of the Royal Brisbane Hospital overnight. He remains in a serious condition, a defence spokesman told AAP.


Do we file that one under second- or third-hand smoke?

8 comments:

Pavlov's Cat said...

I feel for the poor chap, but it's a pity he wasn't a soldier, then we could have had

Digger Destroys Dunny with a Dunhill

Mark Wadsworth said...

PC, indeed. As things stand, we'll have to make do with "Funny: Fairdale flyer's farty fag flash fury"

Anonymous said...

Anti tobacco will attribute only a proportion of each death in explosions to smoking; so this may be a rare case of the harm caused by smoking being under-reported. On the other hand, he was probably smoking in the porterloo because of a ban; and so his death can be viewed as caused by anti tobacco fanaticism.

Anonymous said...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016745/Man-uses-obscure-law-claim-ownership-300k-home-upscale-Texas-town--just-16.html

Anonymous said...

Red-arsed Ranger, regrets rest room rollup, risiking regimental ridicule.

If he had been special forces!

MikeW

Martin said...

Shouldn't that be 'turd degree burns' ?

Anonymous said...

Or even,

Flicked fag flames friendly fire incident.

MikeW

Anonymous said...

Or even at this late hour,

Rogue Rizzla rocks Roehampton restroom.

MikeW