Nope never had that happen to me. however i have held countless pipes looking like that in my hands,nope im not bullshitting you. i worked in a exhaust shop for 10+years there is a bunch of ways to fix that pipe,wrap it with cloth and then lots of plastic padding,cut up a few soda cans wrap around the pipes where the holes are and then secure with steelwire,find some thin sheetmetal and then do some realy bumpy welds with welding wire sticking out and into the pipe in every possible dirrection wile blowing lots of holes in the rusted pipe(think hedgehog and you have the right pic on your mind) these and more "fixes" can be done before you go to your local friendly mufflershop with the remaining piece of pipe in your hands and ask them to just make a copy of it and you will have a brand new pipe looking just like the one you already have but without the rust;)
