Come on, that shit can't be true: Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg

I can understand you wouldn't notice you have a scab or something, but your leg?!? How did he notice? He got off and just fell?

He felt excruciating pain, but did not notice that his right leg was missing until he stopped at the next junction, the paper quoted local police as saying.

Am i horrible for thinking that this means that when he stopped and tried to put his foot on the ground he actually fell?

bah xpost i see.

I had something a bit similar though obviously x100 times less terrible. I once fell off my bike because a car almost ran over me, then proceeded to cycle back to my place, failing to notice i had broken my knee and needed about 10 stitches. But yeah, common a leg? How do you not notice that?! Maybe he was just in denial about the whole accident?

Bikers are tough, man.

Jibe, that's even funnier. I can just see him toppling over. hahah Sorry, I know that I shldn't laugh, but I can't buy the story anyway. I know your body creates chemicals (?) so you don't feel the pain at first, but ffs A LEG?

Perhaps he might not have noticed if he didn't look at it. Think about phantom limb pain, where people feel pain or itches in limbs that have been amputated. His nerves could have been so shot by the pain that he didn't notice. I mean, maybe the leg fell off, but his leather trousers were still on? I dunno.

The man and his leg were taken to hospital, but the limb had been crushed in the collision, the paper said. E-mail to a friend

How do you email a leg to a friend?

This can't be for real, they guy is just pulling our leg.

Tuomas, you did the same crappy joke as I did when I emailed this to my dad.

OBV he hadn't heard of YSI, Mark.

You e-mailed his leg to your dad? That's a crappy joke indeed!

Maybe he is an amputee and this leg that fell off is his wooden leg. Thus the not noticing. The great pain he was feeling was just that phantom limb pain so he wrote it off as "the usual shit". Never forget the fact that the media lies (or doesnt tell the whole truth) :D

they should do a followup to The Hand. The leg turns evil and joins the Yakuza!

The Leg : they abandoned him. It wants REVENGE!

If it had the same plotline, then the guy should have just waited for the leg to return. I wonder if the Leg would have his little toe cut off. And have soms tats.

I saw a man lose a finger once, he was all "Oops that was close, could have done myself a mischief there... oh wait look one of my fingers is missing, we better find it and get it sewn back on... help me look everyone. Ho hum what about this weather eh?"

About 10 minutes later it was "MY FINGER MY FUCKING FINGER OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!1!"

They never found the finger, I think a dog ran off with it.

Was that man Homer?

Was he high?

Come on, it's unfair to assume everyone in Glasgow is drunk or stoned.

Well, not all the time anyway.

Was he high?

Two floors high! He was a window cleaner. He slipped on the ladder and grabbed for the window ledge and his finger somehow got wrenched off. I watched it all out the window from the floor above.

He actually managed to put the ladder back up and climb up for a wee look for his finger before the crazy scream shock reaction kicked in.

It took them about 10 minutes to persuade him to get in the ambulance when it arrived as he still hadn't found the finger.

haha i meant the japanese biker. but this is better.

if my parents are to be believed noone in japan does drugs. hahahaha riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

i bet he's kicking himself for this

Yeah, something is afoot. (Also, what's on this guy's iPod? - Henry Cow - Leg End)

Seriously, though, he did feel the injury, just didn't realize it was severed. But don't the shift and rear brake controls use the feet? And aren't Japanese bikes like British ones where the shift lever is on the right? How can he not have shifted until he stopped?

legs get cut off, get over it

Anotehr song on there: ZZ Top - Legs

And that Cook and Moore bit about the one-legged actor auditioning for Tarzan.

X-post to the severed finger story... I cut about 1/8th of an inch of the top of my middle finger with an X-acto blade after an all-nighter in design studio. I didn't realize the extent until a good two minutes later. In fact the girl sitting next to me had to point out that I was bleeding at first, then I looked down and went, "hmm.. I appear to have cut myself, best head over to the sink to rinse my finger off". Once I started to run water over it and saw the extent my thoughts quickly becamuse "OH MY GOD I JUST CUT OFF THE TIP OF MY FUCKING FINGER!! OW GOD HOLY HELL FUCK!!!"

A few years ago my brother cut a couple of his fingers off with a table saw, and when he got to the hospital and unwrapped it, the nurse said "you should have been more careful!"

Um, yeah. Thanks.

Seriously, though, he did feel the injury, just didn't realize it was severed. But don't the shift and rear brake controls use the feet? And aren't Japanese bikes like British ones where the shift lever is on the right? How can he not have shifted until he stopped?

I was thinking the same thing. You need feet to operate a motorcycle with a standard transmission, but 250cc scooters are very popular in Japan and require no foot action. Maybe he was riding one of those.

i bet he's kicking himself for this

-- brownie, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:04 (Yesterday) Link

He has a tendon, see, to do that.

next i suppose he'll attach a huge gun to the stub

Hopefully he wasn't on his way to an arse-kicking convention.