Rangers Find Arm That Climber Amputated

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

[Ken H]

He could be very busy if he became a paper hanger.

[Petruchio]

The time factor. By the time it was recovered, all the tissue was dead.

I must admit that my first reply was "Why would the Dr's want to attach his arm to J.B.'s p****???"

[tracer]

If he heard you say that he'd probably give you the finger.....

[tracer]

If he heard you say that he'd probably give you the finger.....

[Reverend Bob]

Actually, I think it was Benedict Arnold's LEG.

[tracer]

What an underhanded thing to say. BTW, did the accident happen on Palm Sunday??

[tracer]

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

Well, perhaps not.......

[Migraine]

These are all really funny.
It's amazing how high the cost of extreme sports can be. The way it's going, next year, it'll probably cost an arm and a leg.

[tracer]

The best way to get tickets, however, still is the five-finger discount.......

[FreeRadical]

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

Yeah, I wonder. Those three words can really ruin your day.

[Charles Henrickson]

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Lefty" Ralston

[Charles Henrickson]

Off hand, this is a griping story.

I'll go out on a limb and say he's done a lot of griping.

[new cruelty]

It's enough to tear a man apart.

[freedomlover]

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

LOL

[Capriole]

I don't understand how the guy cut his own arm off without (a) bleeding to death after he cut through major arteries, and (b) fainting from the pain. Once he began the process and experienced the horrendous agony, how could he have continued? Especially as he got down to deep levels and had to sever big nerves? This is incomprehensible to me. I know, you hear about it from time to time--there was a logger a few years ago who had to cut his own leg off with a small knife after he got stuck under a tree trunk--but I don't get it. It must be a guy thing. Me, I'd lie there and die.

[The_Reader_David]

Ah, well, legends grown in the telling.

Thanks for setting me straight.

[Ciexyz]

This hiker is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon university (as reported in the Pittsburgh papers) so you'd think he'd be smart enuf to carry a cell phone.

[Shooter 2.5]

My pleasure.

I understand that there are a lot of tourists who see the monument from a distance and automatically assume a leg is buried there.

[Doctor Stochastic]

A long epic poem: Arm and the man I sing.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

It must be a guy thing. Me, I'd lie there and die.

He was caught between a rock and a hard place.