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callktulu
...if I have the guts to do this:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312773,00.html

Farmer Cuts off Right Arm With Pocket Knife to Save Life

Sunday, November 25, 2007


A farmer from Kershaw County, South Carolina, cut off his own arm after it got stuck in a piece of equipment, WYFF4.com reported Sunday.

The nightmare for Sampson Parker began when he noticed a piece of cornstalk stuck in a farm machine. When he tried to release the cornstalk, his hand got stuck in the machine.

After about an hour of being trapped, with no response to his calls for help, Parker's arm became numb. He reached for his John Deere pocket knife and started cutting his fingers.

According to the report, shortly after Parker began his dramatic rescue, a fire broke out. He then did the only thing he could to save his life-sacrifice his right arm.

With little-to-no time to spare, Parker went straight for his arm, cutting away from the bone as fast as he could. Once he severed his arm from his body, he managed to drive himself to a road where a firefighter helped him with the injury.

"My skin was melting. It was dripping off my arm like plastic, plastic melting. I realized I was in trouble," Parker told WYFF4.
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  • SW 357Mag
    My god that would be painful. [B)]

    Poor guy. What a terrible thing to happen.
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  • fishkiller41
    That my friends, is one BAD-MO-FO!!!
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  • Cubslover
    He can officially change his middle name to "Badass"
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  • tobefree
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    That my friends, is one BAD-MO-FO!!!


    Sound like a good man to have along in a bad situation!!!
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  • callktulu
    True, but let's not forget that he stuck his hand into moving machinery. A major NO-NO where I work, or anywhere else that operates dangerous equipment. We have Lock-Out/Tag-Out procedures for this very reason.
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  • Cubslover
    quote:Originally posted by callktulu
    True, but let's not forget that he stuck his hand into moving machinery. A major NO-NO where I work, or anywhere else that operates dangerous equipment. We have Lock-Out/Tag-Out procedures for this very reason.


    We have that very procedure here at work.
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  • allen griggs
    They are big, and they are made of brass, and they clang together when he walks.
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  • sarge_3ad
    It doesn't seem like it happens as often now, but farmers use to lose limbs and life all the time in the old days by sticking their arms into moving or clogged up machinery. Use to hear how they would get off the tractor to unclog the baler and bale themselves right up. Would be a tragic death.
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  • Captplaid
    quote:Originally posted by cubslover
    quote:Originally posted by callktulu
    True, but let's not forget that he stuck his hand into moving machinery. A major NO-NO where I work, or anywhere else that operates dangerous equipment. We have Lock-Out/Tag-Out procedures for this very reason.


    We have that very procedure here at work.


    farmers are exempt
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  • Captplaid
    electricity power plant do not have to follow lockout\tagout either
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  • guntech59
    Chuck Norris calls HIM, Sir!
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  • spryor
    Read a similar story a few years back of a logger that got his leg trapped between some logs and had to cut his leg off w/a pocket knife...no fire involved though..
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  • flyingtorpedo
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    They are big, and they are made of brass, and they clang together when he walks.


    So true!
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  • needmyguns
    chuck norris would have just looked at the machine and it would have let go of his arm Thats Tough
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  • p3skyking
    Important safety tip, don't put your head into a washing machine during the spin cycle or attempt to remove a radiator while the engine is running.

    [xx(]
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  • frog21
    I tried to jump a belt off an electric motor once.The pulley cut my index finger to the bone,so I used a popsicle stick and bandaids to put it back together.
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