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Offline Excel1

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Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg
« on: August 14, 2007, 06:02:16 AM »
I think i would notice pretty much straight away if  one of my legs was ripped of my body. This bloke must be one intensivly focussed rider with a hell of a high pain thresh hold

TOKYO - A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for 2km, leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb.

The 54-year-old office worker was out on his motorcycle with a group of friends in the city of Hamamatsu, west of Tokyo, on Monday, when he was unable to negotiate a curve in the road and bumped into the central barrier, the Mainichi Shimbun said.

He felt excruciating pain, but did not notice that his right leg was missing until he stopped at the next junction, the paper quoted local police as saying.

The man and his leg were taken to hospital, but the limb had been crushed in the collision, the paper said.

- REUTERS

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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2007, 06:16:31 AM »
*cough* BS

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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2007, 07:02:57 AM »
And his new career of a pirate begins........
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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2007, 07:40:01 AM »
Presumably like me he hardly uses the rear brake pedal. Otherwise he would have noticed quick enough. :confused:


The story is a bit suspect though. You would have to hit something quite hard to sever a leg. Perhaps he has a certain sang froid. It reminds of the story concerning the Marquis of Anglesey at Waterloo who noted as cannon ball took away his leg: "By God, sir, I've lost my leg!" -- to which Wellington replied, "By God, sir, so you have!":lol

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« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2007, 07:44:48 AM »
"But, Lets say, if two Swallows held a coconut by a strand...."

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« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2007, 07:54:16 AM »
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"But, Lets say, if two Swallows held a coconut by a strand...."

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Coconuts migrate ;)
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« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2007, 11:58:49 AM »
How fast do coconuts migrate and how far inland?
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2007, 05:51:51 PM »
Depends if its an African or European coconut
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