A steel foundry worker in Germany received a nine-month prison sentence for sticking an air rifle up his buddy’s rectum and firing the weapon, which caused the victim’s intestines to explode.

The explanation Denis Schwarz, 25, gave for firing an air gun up his friend’s ass was that the victim had complained about having sweaty buttocks from working in the Halberg Guss factory where molten metal kept temperatures soaring.

Schwarz says that he had jokingly offered to help his friend cool down by blowing some air over him, saying– “We often played around with air rifles – it was just a bit of fooling around – I said I was going to shoot him in the bum. He said he didn’t care and I pulled the trigger and he just collapsed.”

When offering his account of the incident, the victim said– “I suddenly felt this incredible pain – you can’t imagine it. I couldn’t breathe it hurt so much, you can’t know how happy I was when I got to hospital and they gave me an anesthetic.”

Making their case before the court, prosecutors said– “The blast of air burst his intestines causing massive internal bleeding. It was an emergency operation which the victim almost died from. He was in intensive care for 11 days. A big section of his large intestine was removed and he had to have a bag fitted to collect waste.”