Posted on 06/10/2010 6:51:53 PM PDT by onona
By Pat Eaton-Robb, Associated Press Writer
HARTFORD, Conn. — Jonathan Metz had been trapped for two days in his basement with his left arm stuck in a broken furnace. Smelling rotting flesh, he decided that amputation was his only hope.
So the 31-year-old fashioned a tourniquet near his shoulder and began cutting. He made it almost all the way through, but wasn't able to free himself.
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Always keep your cell phone with you !!!!
There’s an old joke about waking up with a girl and...never mind.
I remember (NOT resemble !) that old joke. Thanks for the laugh !
Local guy was cutting a tree and had his leg trapped. Cut off his lower leg with a pocket knife, hopped to his truck and drove out I think.
I hear about these stories and wonder. I can’t even imagine the frame of mind you must be in to get to work on that stuff. Maybe you just look at it as if it is somebody else’s appendage and you are the surgeon. Desperation wonderment.
Eeek. I don’t know which was worse...this guy’s story or the one at the end about the guy whose arm got trapped under a rock.
aaaagh
I attended college with a guy whose arm got caught in a hay baler. When he reached with his other arm to free himself, it got dragged in. Then the same thing happened to the foot he used to push himself away.
When the machine finally chewed off his limbs and he fell free, he rolled his wounds in the dirt to slow blood loss. Then, somehow, he managed to start and drive his truck a mile to the house for help.
All he had left was one foot and prostheses. An amazingly upbeat and capable guy...
Only person I've ever seen who could stand on one foot and do both backward and forward flips.
Omg
“Always keep your cell phone with you !!!!”
Most cell phones can’t get service/signal in CT basements.
A very similar story happened here in maryland to a friend of mine.
Got his hand caught in a corn poicker, stuck his foot in tohelp him getbhis hand out. The foot choked out the tractor and he was stuck in the picker until his wife came out to get him for dinner 4 hours later.
AP story so it’s already suspect.
Meat doesn’t get rotten smell in 2 days unless it’s very hot.
The rest of the story does stink.
I never would have guessed it takes so little time for a limb to become gangrenous and smell like rotting flesh.
Can’t even spell the title coreckly.
Well .. He was trapped by a furnace! 8)
Some people have a strong will to live. I could never do this. I’d simply die.
As a direct result, all furnaces need to be licensed and regulated, homeowners should be tested to show ability to operate to prevent this from ever happening again. sarc/
I Connect, I cut!
well, considering the arm was still attached it was at least 80 degrees or so. Plus meat does start to rot real quickly unless drained of blood. Think about road kill. It does not take long at all for it to swell up and rot even on cool days.
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