An Alyth man has told how he faces a two-year recovery after sneaking into a water park at 2am and smashing both his ankles on a flume.
Barry Douglas, 44 and friend Claire Vickers, 46, broke into the Aldershot Lido swimming complex in Hampshire in August.
They decided to go down a slide, but were met with a steel barrier at the bottom.
The pair have ended up in wheelchairs as a result of their drunken antics.
Speaking on ITV’s This Morning on Tuesday, Barry – who also suffered a broken tibia – said: “It’s been a serious change in my life.
“I’ve got to go to St George’s [hospital] on Wednesday and they will tell me more… the professor says [I’m] going to be out for about two years.”
Hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield heard how the pair decided to go for a slide after drinking all day.
Claire claims she has been sneaking into the park since she was 20 and that “everybody does it”.
She said: “That night I didn’t plan on going out to do this, it just happened, and it’s happened before to other people, so I just think something should be done about it.
“My bone came straight out my leg there and then.
“As you’re coming down the actual chute, as you’re coming out where the water is supposed to slow you down, there was blocks. As soon as I hit the bottom it just bent my leg straight in half.
“It was totally out, I was holding on to my leg. I shattered every single bone in that foot.”
She said she thought Barry – who passed out – was dead and that it was “like something out of a Saw movie”.
Barry, who now lives in Portsmouth, claims he went down the slide naked, and went unconscious due to the cold.
The pair were found by police after a few hours.
Barry said: “I bounced back when I hit the barrier, and I tried to lift my leg, and my leg just flopped.
You haven’t been prosecuted, which you’re lucky about… you shouldn’t have been there
Phillip Schofield
“What the police did was throw my clothes on top of me to try to keep me warm, so I ended up in hospital with a bag of clothes that was wet. But they were trying their best.”
Barry agreed with Phillip‘s assessment that they “shouldn’t have been there”.
But he said that all the chains blocking off access to the slides were “open”.
He continued: “We deserve it. [But] they should have security there, for a start, and the fence should be secured.”
However, Phillip said in response: “It’s a tricky thing for them, really, isn’t it, because you shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
“You haven’t been prosecuted, which you’re lucky about, and so you’re saying that if they fixed the fence, if they put security at their own expense to patrol it, if they made sure those chains had padlocks on them properly and all that sort of stuff, then we wouldn’t have been able to go down the slide, which you shouldn’t have been going down in the first place.”
Barry said: “100%.”
Claire added: “I just think that everybody makes a mistake. Everybody has got drunk at some point in their life and made a silly choice, and that’s what this was.”
Rounding up the interview, Holly – who also hosts Dancing On Ice – said: “Perhaps if the barrier was at the top of the slide and not the bottom, it might have prevented a terrible accident.
“Well it’s a salient lesson, that’s for sure.”
The water park’s operator has confirmed an investigation into the incident is taking place.