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    Oh, MAN! Worker cuts off own arm to free himself from machinery

    I'm going to stop reading news.

    12:31 PM CST on Wednesday, January 2, 2008

    Associated Press


    MANOR, Texas - A worker at a concrete company who got caught in machinery amputated his own arm to free himself Wednesday.

    The 52-year-old man went to warm up some equipment at Alamo Concrete at about 4:30 a.m. when he got his sleeve caught. Austin/Travis County Emergency Medical Services spokesman Warren Hassinger said the man cut off his arm at the elbow to free himself.

    The man nearly died at the scene but was able to call 911, Hassinger said. The man's name and further details of the incident were not immediately available.

    The man was taken to a hospital where he was in critical but stable condition, Hassinger said.

    I don't know if I could do that or not. Hopefully, I'll never find out.
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    He got his sleeve caught? Did he try taking his shirt off first or leap straight into the arm cutting?

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    • #3
      It happened in Texas, so the latter is definitely a possibility.
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      • #4
        Well you know them Texans. He prolly thought "I gots two, so's I kin spare one".
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        • #5
          In Texas any lost limbs grow back within three months.

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          • #6
            That's only because Texans consider guns to be limbs.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Starchild
              He got his sleeve caught? Did he try taking his shirt off first or leap straight into the arm cutting?

              My thinking exactly.

              I did a Google News search on this, and came upon this article among others which notes:

              The man's arm was cut off at the elbow but it was unclear if he cut it off to escape or if it was cut off by the machinery...
              Some ambiguity remains for the moment then. Either way:

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Starchild
                He got his sleeve caught? Did he try taking his shirt off first or leap straight into the arm cutting?

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                • #9
                  This reminds me of a guy at the paper mill where I used to work who got his arm caught in a machine and had it flayed from the elbow down...
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                  • #10
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                    • #11
                      DaShi, who's going to click on a video in a thread about amputation of limbs? Not me!

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                      • #12
                        I guess once the adrenalin starts pumping, you can do anything.
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                        • #13
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                          • #14
                            In my town in Oregon there was a really cute redhead that fed her hand into the Arby's sausage grinding machine. Took it off all the way to the wrist, pulling her hand in as it ground it into...sausage. ugg. Pretty girl, nice personality, I felt so sorry for her that she had to suffer that.

                            Excellent special on sausage pizza that week tho.

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