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It went from an inhaling device to an impaling device.
As if vape pens weren’t hazardous enough to one’s health, a UK teen was told he might lose his foot after it was impaled by an e-cigarette that he’d stomped on while out with pals. Photos of the gruesome injury are currently blowing up online.
[Warning: Graphic images below]
“I wasn’t thinking — I don’t know how to explain it,” Harley Bennett, 13, told Kennedy News and Media of his “painful” accidental piercing, which occurred Oct. 8 while he was hanging out with friends in his hometown of Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
The youths had reportedly discovered the electronic cigarette beneath a subway, and Bennett decided to destroy it for fun. So the youngster stood up the e-cigarette vertically on the ground and attempted to crush it like “a Coke can.”
However, the stunt went south after the four-inch vape pen pierced his $240 thick-soled trainer shoes, socks and foot like a punji stake. “I just stamped on it and it just went straight into my foot,” recalled Bennett.
Graphic photos show the e-cigarette’s red butt protruding from the sole of his foot.
A buddy subsequently called his mother, Samantha Robinson, 34, to inform her of the sole-destroying ordeal, and the panicky mom arrived at the scene and ferried her pained progeny to Cirencester Hospital.
Due to the severity of his injuries, however, Bennett had to be transferred to the emergency ward at Gloucester Royal Hospital, where he was put on a drip of antibiotics and painkillers.
