Rangers Find Arm That Climber Amputated

Associated Press ^ | 5/5/03 | Associated Press

[tracer]

I hope the rescuers didn't give him the cold shoulder.....

[new cruelty]

another rule of climbing:

NEVER GO UNARMED!

[tracer]

Yea, verily -- the road to the covetted Darwin Award is a long and lonely one indeed and goes only to those who are the most determined, persiistent, and/or unlucky....

[tracer]

I heard that it took a lot of elbow grease to recover the limb.....

[Snardius]

They claimed it was a "biohazard" and they also wanted to thwart "souvenir hunters",

I wonder if they had to file an environmental impact statement before they moved the boulder.

[colorado tanker]

Not only did he go out alone, he didn't tell anyone where he was going. The only way they narrowed the search was to track him to the park with charge receipts and then cruise the parking lots for his car.

Those slant canyons are especially dangerous because a thunderstorm a few miles away can flood a canyon in a real hurry.

[tracer]

"The courage and stamina displayed by this man are jaw-dropping."

Now there's a left-handed compliment.....

[mallardx]

"Probably to keep some other morbid idiot from going up there trying to get it himself and winding up in the same shape."

Sounds like an arms race to me!

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I believe in the right to bear arms, but not the right to leave arms for the bears.

[Snardius]

What's the sound of one hand clapping...

[tacticalogic]

If you get enough of them, can you glue 'em together and make an arm chair?

[lilylangtree]

If the doctors can reattach John Bobbitt's penis, why can't they reattach this hiker's arm--too large?

[strela]

Y'know, there's a certain weird closure in going to the funeral for your own body part. Just think, you could write and deliver the eulogy at your own funeral service! (The drawback is that you have to pay for it too).

[Focault's Pendulum]

This guy is a nut, first rule, don't go alone.

Wrong! I solo on trails much of the time. Solos know the risk...we're usually rather experienced at what we do...and can accept the consequences of our actions.

Partners are the safe, wise, way to go according to the guidelines...but guidelines are usually written for the lowest common demoninator.

[new cruelty]

Off hand, this is a griping story. He should write a book about the experience... He could call it "A farewell to Arm'.

[Spyder]

Too long dead. Without blood circulation the tissue dies. Also, amputation by pocketknife is hardly a "clean cut" (as opposed to Lorena's surgical technique) and the microsurgery required to reattach all the blood vessels and nerves appropriately would be pretty tough even if the recovery had been accomplished in time to prevent tissue death.

[tracer]

What you said is quite humerus..............

[tacticalogic]

Just think, you could write and deliver the eulogy at your own funeral service!

There has to be a singular kind of satisfaction in being able to look down at your own grave, and just turn and walk away.

[Slicksadick]

Perhaps the theme could be about being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

[new cruelty]

did that tickle your funny bone?