Woman's breast implant bursts after she is shot with paintball

Updated on: 25 August,2011 02:50 PM IST |
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A British woman with fake boobs has been left in agony when one implant exploded after she was shot in the chest with a paintball

A British woman with fake boobs has been left in agony when one implant exploded after she was shot in the chest with a paintball.

The bizarre injury is thought to be the first of its kind.
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At first the woman thought she had just suffered a painful bruise. But when she went to see a doctor a few days later, he revealed the force of the impact had torn the implant.
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"Part of the fun of paintball is that it hurts a bit when you get shot but in all the years we've been going we've never seen an incident like this," the Sun quoted a spokesman for UK Paintball, who run the Paintzone Paintball Park, as saying.
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"It came as a real surprise to hear that a woman had her implant burst at one of our centres," the spokesman stated.
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In future, the spokesman said, women with fake boobs will be given extra padding to prevent similar injuries.
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Douglas McGeorge, the former president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, said the bizarre injury could cost the woman 3,000 pounds.
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"This is very, very unusual and this woman was very unlucky. I imagine she was quite slim because the paintball would have had to pierce the skin to rupture the implant.
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"I have heard some odd stories over the years but this is one of the strangest.
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"And it could prove very costly. She could have to pay up to 3,000 pounds to get the implant replaced," he added.

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