A public service announcement.

If you are really such an inept drinker that you feel you must enlist the aid of a beer bong to get it in you, be sure to only use the acoustic beer bongs. The electric-powered ones may f**k you up rather more literally than you expected.

The man, a mechanical drafter who did not want his name published, said yesterday that about six other party-goers had used the "jug helmet" before him. "No one else had any problems and I didn't think it would be any different to other things like funnels that people use," he said. "But I knew something wasn't right soon after I drank from it. I started spewing up red stuff and was in a lot of pain."

Although he has little memory of the next few days, friends took the man to the Murdoch hospital's emergency department where staff originally thought he was just drunk. When his friends told about the skolling device doctors suspected something was seriously wrong.

The man underwent urgent surgery to repair a 10cm tear and was then on life support for a week. Surgeon David Cooke said the split in the wall of the man's stomach had pushed food and beer into his abdominal cavity, making him septic. His insides had to be "washed out" twice and he was put on heavy-duty antibiotics. The man's mother said that for several days it was touch and go.

(via boingboing)