Talk about full of air! He could run for president, either party.

When he became a lorry driver, Steven McCormack probably felt he could handle the stresses of the job.


But the 48-year-old New Zealander couldn't have anticipated quite what sort of pressure he would have to endure.  Mr McCormack was blown up like a balloon after falling on to a compressed air tube in a freak accident.  The end of the tube pierced the flesh of his left buttock, forcing compressed air at the rate of 100 pounds per square inch into his body, swelling it to bursting point.