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[patonga]

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

[olebiker]

I don't think I have ever been that drunk or stoned!

[Hammerhead1st]

Wow...I'd sue the barrier maker or something, but I'd most likely lose...not a leg to stand on...

[79XS11F]

Now that's retarded .. . no excuses.
Rob

[petejw]

I read that too,
how could u not notice ur leg missing!

[prometheus578]

how could u not notice ur leg missing!

Just wait till he tries to use the rear brake!

[petejw]

lol
was thinkin the same thing,

or cuming to a stop and the bike falling ovr.

[Crazcnuk]

"How could u not notice ur leg missing!"

Because it hurt so bad you didn't want to look? The brain will never tell you a limb is missing, you feel it years after it's gone...

[Stralya]

Legless

I've often been legless but so far they always grow back.

[trbig]

I was in a pretty awesome, high speed wreck on a dirt bike once ( I wish I could have seen it..) I was unconscious for a while so I missed everything.. lol. I rode the bent bike home and put it up, and it was a couple hours later that I noticed blood all over my sock when I took my boot off. I had a hole in my calf that I could put my whole thumb into where the footpeg had gone in and out... never knew it or felt it.

I was a medic for several years, and talking with people that had sustained some pretty gruesome trauma of different sorts, I saw more than once where a limb would be gone, but the only pain they had may be a gash in their head or something. Gunshot wounds.. some people said it hurt worse than than anything ever.. others didn't even know they had been shot. One guy told me that the SECOND time he got shot hurt way worse than the first time! lmao!

So who knows...


Tod

[Hammerhead1st]

I've heard of people losing limbs and then still having the ability to feel them. Something about the nerves haven't learned that the limb is gone yet. IF the guy crushed it so bad it couldn't be re-attached, the trauma may have caused the sensation of maybe some calf pain, but his mind would've thought the leg was still on. Ever hear of people who have had amputations and still try to utilize their missing limbs???

Not sure about the rest of you all, but I'm pretty sure I'd be checking myself out after a crash with a barrier wall. At the very LEAST I'd be checking th damage on my baby. Who knows what went thru this guys mind at the time? I've seen some weird shi*as a firefighter...but that's kind of bizarre as a whole.

[Stralya]

Hey Tod and hammerhead

The most amazing thing I ever saw in the "I'm injured but I don't know it" department was a bloke we pulled out of an MVA whos legs were smashed, the engine block had come through the firewall into his lap and really made a mess of things as you can imagine. Anyway, we fireies were cutting him out of the wreck and the poor bloke was screaming his head off so the Ambulance Officer gave him pain relief in the form of inhaleable morphine (I can't recall the name of the stuff but you know what I mean.)

So we continued working away and all the while the patient was sniffing away at the morphine tube, waving his arms about, even helping us by moving stuff out of the way so we could get the shears closer to his mashed up legs. The pain relief was working, he stopped screaming and was talking coherently with us, even sharing the odd joke.

We got him free after about two hours and away he went in the Ambulance.

A few weeks later I saw him in a wheelchair in the street. He didn't know me so I walked up and introduced myself, and noticed then that both his arms were in plaster.

Turns out that both radius and ulna, both humorus and several metatarsel and phalanges had been broken in the accident, yet at the time niether he nor we suspected any problems with his arms or hands. We even pulled him out by his underarms and not a murmer came from him.

He told me when I spoke to him in the street that until he woke up with the plaster on his arms he had no idea that anything was wrong with them.

Now that was a head spinner for me, truly amazing.

His legs were saved btw.

Dan.

[Hammerhead1st]

Ahhh, Morphine...gotta LOVE that stuff! They should add some to the SCBA with every bottle recharge...LOL...of course, there might be a few more injuries in the service, but hell, it'd be a great time!!

LMAO...imagine 4 guys dragging a hose out of smoking shell of a building, all laughing uncontrollably..."HA HA HA!!! Hey man, when that ceiling collapsed on you I thought you were DEAD, man...DEAD!! HA HA HA "

Seriously tho...without that type of stuff available, we'd have more fatalities on the roads here...when the patient is calm and serene, it's easier to determine the extent of external injuries. Bleeding slows down, chance of a stroke or heart attack is less, it's a real Godsend as far as that goes.