"AUBURN, Maine - It sounds like a cushy reporting assignment: Get strapped inside a huge inflatable ball and go rolling down a hill at a Maine ski area.

It wasn't quite cushy enough for Sun Journal reporter Rebekah Metzler. She has a fractured back after her ride Thursday.

She and a photographer were strapped into a car-size plastic sphere known as the Zorb when it bounced off a hay-encased post, went airborne and landed hard."

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