Paulo Henrique dos Santos tries to wash off the green color he used to look like the Incredible Hulk (© Fábio Guimarães/Agência O Globo)

Hulk wannabe can't get green off after using wrong paint

5/30/2012

Paolo Henrique dos Santos was hoping to look like the Incredible Hulk for just a few hours, but the Brazilian pool attendant's new identity lasted a lot longer thanks to the industrial-strength paint he used to cover his body. While the paint was the perfect shade of green and accentuated his muscle tone nicely, it happens to be designed to coat ballistic missiles and nuclear submarines — not human skin. It took 24 hours for the superhero and a crew of (now) intimate friends and family to scrub off the "incredible" green substance. The memory will never fade, of course, but that's all right with dos Santos, who says he doesn't regret the incident.

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