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Title: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: RhyssaFireheart on August 16, 2007, 08:04:19 AM It's only a flesh wound. (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/14/japan.biker.reut/index.html)
Quote from: news article TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for 2 km (1.2 miles), 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. How the hell do you not notice your leg getting sliced off?!?!? Or pass out from blood loss, for that matter. Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: Roac on August 16, 2007, 08:11:48 AM It's just a flesh wound.
Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: Nebu on August 16, 2007, 08:33:38 AM Adrenaline: It's not just for breakfast anymore.
Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: Yegolev on August 16, 2007, 09:02:55 AM Don't want to lose face in front of your biker friends.
Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: Riggswolfe on August 16, 2007, 09:25:45 AM Don't want to lose face in front of your biker friends. Dude. I'd hate to be his friend. "You lost a finger? Pussy. I lost my whole friggin leg and kept on riding my bike!" Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: Margalis on August 16, 2007, 09:48:15 PM This is not as strange as you might think. When people suffer severe trauma like a loss of limb often they are basically oblivious to it.
Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: trias_e on August 16, 2007, 11:21:56 PM You'd think evolution would favor those organisms who, upon losing a limb, could fucking notice it.
Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: cmlancas on August 17, 2007, 04:15:13 AM He was truly just trying to get a leg up on his biker buddies.
Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: Tebonas on August 17, 2007, 04:24:51 AM Evolution actually is smart in favouring those that can bring themself out of danger before passing out. Adrenaline junkies aside, thats what Adrenaline used to be for.
Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: NowhereMan on August 17, 2007, 05:22:28 AM Yeah, I'm guessing being overwhelmed with pain and possibly blacking out from it would have left him worse off than not noticing his leg had come off immmediately.
Wish someone had had a video camera, I mean come on! Everyone in Japan has camera phones, who wouldn't at least take a pic of a guy racing after his buddy carryin his leg and post it on the net? Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: voodoolily on August 17, 2007, 09:43:10 AM He was truly just trying to get a leg up on his biker buddies. Terrible. Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: Oban on August 17, 2007, 04:38:02 PM He was truly just trying to get a leg up on his biker buddies. Terrible. Hey, give him a break. It is not easy to snap these one-liners off. Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: NowhereMan on August 17, 2007, 04:40:40 PM Really you need to give him a bit of a leg up and just let him run with it.
Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: CmdrSlack on August 17, 2007, 05:31:46 PM So I'm left wondering just HOW he rode for 2km while missing a leg. Last time I was on my bike, pedaling with one leg is rather hard, if not unpossible.
Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: Oban on August 17, 2007, 05:39:12 PM ... motorcycle ... Title: Re: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg. Post by: CmdrSlack on August 19, 2007, 08:16:18 AM Ah, reading is hard.
It'd be cooler if it was a bicycle tho. |