Would you want your leg back?

[Crazyredhead]

Man is driving to claim his wandering leg.

Imagine, finding this in your new bar b q.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20982414/?GT1=10357

[strawbabies]

I sure as heck wouldn't put my food in there after that.

I also didn't know you could keep a limb that had been amputated. Biohazardous, or something. You'd think it would've been pretty decomposed.

[Crazyredhead]

I also didn't know you could keep a limb that had been amputated. Biohazardous, or something. You'd think it would've been pretty decomposed.

and smelly!

[Boozy]

If there were ever grounds for a "return without receipt", this is it.

There's no way he's gonna use that smoker.

[CanadaGirl]

The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery “for religious reasons” she doesn’t know much about.


EWWWW! Why??? What kind of sick twisted reason would someone WANT to keep a dead piece of their body thats going to start decomposing and harvesting MAGGOTS? Excuse me while I empty the contents of my stomach.

[Soulstealer]

The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery “for religious reasons” she doesn’t know much about.


EWWWW! Why??? What kind of sick twisted reason would someone WANT to keep a dead piece of their body thats going to start decomposing and harvesting MAGGOTS? Excuse me while I empty the contents of my stomach.

Some religons believe you need to be buried with all your body parts although this is creepy and stupid.

[Flood]

Well... erm... I think he smoked his leg as a means of mummifying it. So it wasn't really decomposing all that quickly. And he did take steps to prevent bugs and whatnot from getting to it, so there wouldn't be any maggots. He probably couldn't find a jar big enough/the right size for his leg to fill with formaldehyde, or couldn't find someone to supply him with formaldehyde quick enough to properly preserve his leg, so he made do with what he had.

Not saying I understand why he wanted to keep his leg to begin with or condoning it, just working my brain through his crazy logic.

[Kara]

"Get rid of that thing!"
"No way, mom! I'm keeping it! It's uh... religious or something!"

Later...

"Dude, this is some good pot. You know what would be a good idea? Let's put my leg on the grill. Next time dad uses it, it'll really freak him out!"

And even later...

"Mom! Where's my leg?"
"I don't know, dear. It's probably in that pigsty of a room of yours. I'm going to try to get some money for this grill at the auction, you can just clean up that mess and I'm sure it'll turn up before I get back."
"Sigh, fine, whatever."

[Titi]

OMG! The guy who found the leg wants to keep it for fame and fortune!!

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...012895,00.html

[DGoddessChardonnay]

OMG . . . . how grotesque is that???

But then, in this day and age, nothing should surprise us anymore in the quest for that fifteen minutes' worth of fame.

Yet the bar gets lowered.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Dude...you found a severed mummified leg in a barbeque. This ain't the Virgin Mary in toast. I wouldn't even freaking cop to it after I found it wasn't involved in a murder. "You the leg guy?" "Nope." I would give the guy his freaking leg AND disgusting possessed barbeque back and say "Let us never speak of this again," and I wouldn't, I would just let it fester quietly in the back of my mind until it becomes a therapy bill in about ten years.

Just, ew. Some people's sons.

[Titi]

This case is going to be on Judge Mathis tomorrow!
The guy who found the leg must REALLY want his 15 seconds of fame.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat...ated-leg_N.htm