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03-06-2008, 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by news.com.au Man's leg torn off on Cresta Run
A MAN who lost his leg during a 130km/hr toboggan ride had no idea his limb was missing until he asked someone if he had a broken ankle.
After reaching the bottom of the notorious 1.2 km long Cresta Run in St Moritz, Switzerland, 32-year-old British man Bernie Bambury felt something was wrong with his leg, UK newspaper The Sun reported.
“Is my ankle broken?” Captain Bambury, a British officer who fought in Iraq, said.
He was told by someone at the bottom of the course: “It’s not broken, it’s gone.”
Capt Bambury later found that when his right foot hit a marker during the run, his leg was severed below the knee.
According to the newspaper, Swiss surgeons reattached the limb, but told Capt Bambury that he may never regain full mobility.
So he told them to cut it off and give him a prosthetic limb.
“Amputation gave the best prospects for the rest of my life and the swiftest return to duty,” he told the paper.
A source at the Zurich hospital that treated the officer told the newspaper: “It’s ironic the Captain should come back from Iraq without a scratch then lose his leg on a bobsleigh run.
“He decided he would be better off without the leg. It was a tough call.”
A Ministry of Defence source said: “He’s keen to crack on and has the guts and determination to bounce back.”
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03-06-2008, 08:09 AM
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03-06-2008, 08:10 AM
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03-06-2008, 08:10 AM
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03-06-2008, 08:11 AM
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03-06-2008, 08:17 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Dang, that does Ronnie Lott one better.
At the end of the 1985 season in a game against the Cowboys, Ronnie Lott mangled his left pinky in a brutal collision with running back Timmy Newsome. Lott came out of the game briefly -- a game his team won to gain a wild-card berth in the NFC playoffs.
The next week, Lott had his fingers taped so he could play -- in a loss to the Giants. Lott eventually chose to have the tip of his finger amputated and then went on to his third Pro Bowl season with the 49ers in yet another playoff appearance.
Myownself, I have a 6" steel plate in my left shin from a motorcycle wreck in 1966 - just about lost the bottom half of the leg. Not a fun exercise. Can't say I recommend it to anyone.
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03-06-2008, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Trevorus That's insane. But I do have a titanium plate in my leg, so that's kinda manly. | You would have taken the marker down and been fine  |
03-06-2008, 08:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Western PA | | | That's manly, but not as much as the guy who got trapped under a boulder and voluntarily cut off his own limb with a dull pocketknife.
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03-06-2008, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Diggler That's manly, but not as much as the guy who got trapped under a boulder and voluntarily cut off his own limb with a dull pocketknife. | OMG ! I saw a show about that guy. He calmly talked about how he cut his arm off and saved himself. That is absolutely amazing.  |
03-06-2008, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Diggler That's manly, but not as much as the guy who got trapped under a boulder and voluntarily cut off his own limb with a dull pocketknife. | Aron Ralston. Former employee at the Intel site I worked at...
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03-06-2008, 09:03 AM
| | zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Scotland | | | Pales in comparison to the fisherman who was out on his boat alone, got his leg caught in the nets as he was winching them in and ended up having to cut his own leg off.
What made this guy particularly tough was that he went on to collect the rest of his nets, piloted his boat back to the harbour, phoned his wife to say he'd be late home for dinner, then drove himself to the hospital.
Now that's tough. |
03-06-2008, 09:10 AM
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03-06-2008, 09:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | All are wussies compared to this teen: The teen-ager was home alone when a power implement used to drive farm machinery cut off his arms below the shoulder. He staggered 400 feet to the house, kicked open a door and then used a pencil clenched in his teeth to punch out a phone call for help. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...51C0A964958260
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03-06-2008, 09:21 AM
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03-06-2008, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by RWP OMG ! I saw a show about that guy. He calmly talked about how he cut his arm off and saved himself. That is absolutely amazing. | How he had to saw through the final tendons to break free. I saw that. Crazy. The thought of it makes my butt pucker shut. |
03-06-2008, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar How he had to saw through the final tendons to break free. I saw that. Crazy. The thought of it makes my butt pucker shut. | HAHAHA. siged! |
03-06-2008, 09:38 AM
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Pfft- I did that the other day, but I didn't notice until reading this. I'll put a Barbie bandaid on it when I'm done posting.
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03-06-2008, 10:08 AM
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03-06-2008, 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar How he had to saw through the final tendons to break free. I saw that. Crazy. The thought of it makes my butt pucker shut. | My butt is already as tight as a frogs butt, and that's water tight |
03-06-2008, 10:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | A while back, I ran into a few of the crackheads from my last job. One of them was missing his arm, just above the elbow. He had gotten into a fight with a good friend of his, both drunk and probably on crack. His friend twisted his arm around behind his back and then twisted it around a second time Doing so, broke all the veins, arteries, tendons, etc. He said that when he tried to "unwind" his arm, he passed out from the pain. They ended up having to amputate his arm!!! I couldn't believe you could actually DO that to someones arm  Crazy Lakeland FL crackheads............... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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