Man's Leg Found In Smoker To Be Returned

Internet Broadcasting Systems ^ | 10-4-2007 | IBS

[Westlander]

MAIDEN, N.C. -- A South Carolina man who mistakenly lost his amputated leg when it was sold in a barbecue smoker at a public auction will get the appendage back, authorities said Wednesday.

John Wood, of Simpsonville, S.C., had been battling to regain custody of the leg from Shannon Whisnant, who found the leg in the smoker he purchased at an auction of Wood's belongings last week, WXII-TV in Greenville, N.C., reported

Whisnant had said he wanted to keep the leg if Wood wasn't willing to pay to get it back. The leg was being kept at a funeral home, the television station reported.

Whisnant said he previously charged people to look at the severed leg.

"It's mine, I want it back, I have a receipt," Whisnant said Tuesday.

He said that if Wood cared about the leg, it wouldn't have been left behind in the smoker.

Wood's leg was amputated three years ago after an airplane crash. He had been keeping the leg so it could be cremated with him when he dies.

[Westlander]

Wonder if it had Open Pit BBQ sauce on it.

[llevrok]

Paging Bobby Flay.....

[pillut48]

Okay, I’m all about capitalism, but this is taking it a WEE bit too far, don’t you think?? Amputee extortion? What is the world coming to?

With all this Rush stuff and wacky stories, I’m thinking somebody has opened up the gates of Hell and let out a slew of demons on the world... :-o

[fieldmarshaldj]

[Nachoman]

Being Carolina, it probably had a vinegar or mustard-based BBQ sauce.

[liege]

Might want to be real careful where you eat BBQ in North Carolina. It’s sad that she just couldn’t give the man’s leg back without the fuss. Why would she want someone’s severed leg, anyway?

[jedward]

lolololol

Ping to CM!

[jedward]

“Why would she want someone’s severed leg, anyway?”

It’s an old dead-leg ransom trick (lol)

[mkmensinger]

Uncle Hannibal will be so disappointed if it’s not returned.

[pillut48]

She’s a he. :-) Real classy guy, too, apparently.

[jdm]

John Wood, of Simpsonville, S.C., had been battling to regain custody of the leg.

"The guy fighting for custody of the fake leg is named Wood? Wood? That's amazing. That's like an ice cream man named Cone."

[pillut48]

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=6035

[dighton]

Paging Flannery O’Connor!

[Stayfree]

What a moron, storing his leg in a smoker...what if the idiot got drunk, smoked his own leg and then ate it himself. Maybe he wanted a place in Ripley’s.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

As an amputee, it seems more than a little weird to hold onto your amputated leg (which I presume is skeletal at this point). A famous general in the Battle of Gettysburg lost his leg in the fighting, eventually donating it to a museum.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

MMMMMMMMMM~YUM~YUM!!! EAT EM' UP!!...;0)

[jedward]

lol

[Moonman62]

Okay, I’m all about capitalism, but this is taking it a WEE bit too far, don’t you think?? Amputee extortion? What is the world coming to?

Probably a Libertarian and or a Ron Paul supporter.

[mass55th]

" famous general in the Battle of Gettysburg lost his leg in the fighting, eventually donating it to a museum."

That was General Dan Sickles. It's still at the Museum of Health and Medicine on the grounds of Walter Reed. Sickles used to visit his leg each year on the anniversary of the amputation. At that time, the museum was at Ford's Theater. Here's an article about the museum and some of the things it has:

Rest in Pieces

[Sender]

Wonder if it had Open Pit BBQ sauce on it.

On a leg? Had to be Bone Suckin' Sauce.

[AnAmericanMother]

That would be that lunatic Dan Sickles, who was later a U.S. Senator and IIRC an ambassador to Spain.

His leg was at the old Army Medical Museum down on 7th Street, and he used to go visit it on a regular basis.

Dan is also renowed (or infamous) for shooting Philip Barton Key, Francis Scott Key's son, on the street in broad daylight in D.C., for having an affair with his pretty young wife (he had no business to complain, he made Bill Clinton look like a monk). His murder trial marked the first successful use of the temporary insanity defense.

I think they understated the case. He was crazy as a hoot owl.

[oh8eleven]

Man's Leg Found In Smoker To Be Returned
Well done!

[AnAmericanMother]

I should read the whole thread before I post!

. . . but we sure did come at the same answer from different angles, didn't we? There's nothing better than some really scandalous gossip when you drag it out again after 150 years or so . . . .

[Billthedrill]

I keep receipts for all my limbs, just in case. I mean, something like this happens, like you leave yer arm in an empty acquarium in the E-Z-Store and it gets sold, how you gonna prove it was yours? Fingerprints?

[Between the Lines]

“Why would she want someone’s severed leg, anyway?”

He said that he wanted it to be cremated with him when he dies.

John Wood is a strange person. He has been electrocuted twice, been in two airplane crashes (one in which he lost his leg) and has had two near death experiences. And did I mention he lost the same leg twice?

[Landru]

"'It's mine, I want it back, I have a receipt,' Whisnant said Tuesday."

Can be proved with DNA, also!!

...just not in LA County. ;^)

[Between the Lines]

"The guy fighting for custody of the fake leg is named Wood?

The guy fighting for custody of his real amputated dried leg is named Wood.

[bk1000]

"Mmmmm...What kind of meat is this?"

"Calf."

[Between the Lines]

The latest news on this is that Wood has his leg back, but that Mr. Shannon Whisnant who found the leg still wants it. Whisnant wants to use it as a “tourist attraction” and has talked to Wood about the venture. Wood is interested in the proposition.

[Between the Lines]

“Why would she want someone’s severed leg, anyway?”

Sorry, but I misunderstood who you were talking about in your first post. Mr. Shannon Whisnant want the leg to use as a "tourist attraction". He has become somewhat of a local celebrity since finding the leg and wants to milk it for what it's worth.

[mass55th]

"There's nothing better than some really scandalous gossip when you drag it out again after 150 years or so . . . ."

Yep, and I forgot to mention that in 1859, while Sickles was a Congressman from NY, he shot and killed Phillip Barton Key, the son of Francis Scott Key, who had been having an affair with Sickles' young wife. Of course Dan was running around having his own affairs at the same time. When Sickles received an anonymous letter advising him of his wife's indescretions, he staked out his home in Lafayette Square (across from the White House). Upon seeing Key either entering or leaving the Sickles home, Dan shot Key in the groin. He died shortly later.

Sickles was arrested for the crime. One of his defense lawyers was William McMasters Stanton, who would later be Secretary of War under Abe Lincoln. People talk about the manipulation that took place during the O.J. trial, but the Sickle trial was just as bad, being turned from a murder case to an adultery case during the proceedings. It was the first time in history that the defense of "temporary insanity" was used in an American Courtroom, and Sickles got away with it. In only 70 minutes, the jury acquitted him of the charges.

[jedward]

I recall a “Peg” being involed in here somewhere too :)

[jedward]

Unconfirmed reports are that Mr. Wood was ‘petrified’ at the thought of not getting his leg back.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I recall a “Peg” being involed in here somewhere too :)"

And no doubt, an Eileen.

[Ditter]

Ick! I wouldn’t want the leg OR the smoker!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

He was crazy as a hoot owl.

Considering his assinine advance on the 2nd day at Gettysburg, he nearly won the war for the Confederacy, not bad for a Union general.

[AnAmericanMother]

He is the CLASSIC example of a political general.

He really was a horrible person, too.

( . . . you're right, he was one of the best generals our side had. If we could have only traded Braxton Bragg for, say, General George Thomas . . . "if 'ifs' and 'ands' were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers.")

[AnAmericanMother]

See my post 21.

"Someone has been here before us, Captain Lewis!"