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A 21-year-old Welsh engineering student is recovering in a Cape Town, South Africa, hospital. The unnamed man (“He has requested that we do not give out any further information,” a hospital spokeswoman says) was returning from a sightseeing trip to Stellenbosch when he got the idea to “moon” drivers on the highway out the back of the bus he was riding. He dropped his pants and pressed his buttocks against the back window. The window, which is also an emergency exit, swung right open. He tumbled out, landing on the highway with his trousers around his ankles, and skidded along the highway in front of astonished motorists. He was listed in serious condition with “severe abrasions and blood loss,” but is expected to recover. (Reuters) ...From his physical injuries, maybe.


Publication Date: 3 October 1999

This story is in True's book collection, Volume 6.
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