I know that this is a motoring forum, but ex motorcyclist have been known to contribute?
Has anyone come across the story of the Japanese young man riding with his mates when he hit the traffic barrier a glancing blow. He rode on although the pain in his leg was excruciating. He was probably embarrassed and didn?t want to lose face before his mates. It was only when he stopped at the next junction that he realised that he had severed his leg from the knee down. Probably fell off the bike when he tried to put his foot down. The leg was too badly damaged to re-attach.
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Sounds like an urban myth to me.
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Hmm.
www.japantoday.com/jp/news/415108
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It's a bit like the supposedly true story of the one-handed man who worked at a sawmill.
Someone one asked him how he lost his hand and he demonstrated using his good hand, which he promptly cut off!
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It was reported a while ago in one of the English language Japanese newspapers I read.
You might be able to find it on Mainichi ( mdn.mainichi.jp/ ) but it was a few months ago.
Kevin...
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Sounds plausible; sometimes very severe injury hurts less than something minor.
Endorphins are amazing things; I've chatted to the top half of a chap who'd hit the back of a truck and he wasn't feeling anything before he gradually faded away.
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Polo Girl, how on earth did you find that link ??
Really, when I wrote that he was a young man I didn't know that he is 54, although quite young compared to me !!
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I've ridden three miles on a scooter having smashed the top of my arm bone.
I've driven twenty miles after spraining an ankle so badly it was bruised from the toes to above the knee.
But losing a leg? I'd have expected someone in that position to die from bloodloss very quickly
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I'd have expected someone in that position to die from bloodloss very quickly
Surprisingly enough; completely severed arteries constrict and are largely self-sealing.
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I fell off the steps of a lorry cab and broke my arm (without realising). Drove for a couple of hours to base. Went to fill out the paperwork and I could not pick up a pen to sign! Went to hospital for checking and found out about the break.
Have heard of countless similar stories (but none as dramatic as losing a limb and continuing).
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"Polo Girl, how on earth did you find that link ??"
I suspect something clever similar to Google was used, which produced results like: tinyurl.com/23rubd
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I like the ever-so-bland descriptive in the Japanese edition. "He was a Company employee"
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Yep..Google. I think it was the top result so didn't take much searching for really.
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I think my Dad once told of a tale of how he suffered a bee sting in his foot whilst riding his motorbike many years ago, not very comfortable at all.
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In the early Eighties I was working in Middlesex on a construction project in the middle of Winter. It was on a renovation of a Jacobean manor house. I was laying between floors, (The joists were of a great depth), and I was hammering in some dry packing to support said joists. Building workers will probably know what I mean. After a period of time I felt a wet sensation in my left armpit. Upon undoing buttons etc and several layers and probing in said armpit I removed my very wet fingers to reveal quite a considerable amount of blood. I investigated further to find that I had smashed, with a club hammer, the top of my 'Wedding' finger during the Dry packing process, which was now an utter mess. Up until the time I had seen my injury there had been NO PAIN.
VBR MD
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During 1970 my cousin fell out with some nasty people who attacked his car with bike chains. He drove of in a panic, on arriving at home he examined the damage and discovered a bike chain wrapped around two fingers. He reported it all to the police but to their knowledge no one every appeared at the local hospital or doctors. He kept the chain and fingers for years until his wife binned them in disgust.
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. He kept the chain and fingers for years until his wife binned them in disgust.
Cool! :-)
One of the most eye watering I heard of was when my uncle and his mates were out for a blast on their motorbikes in the early 80's. They negotiated a left hand bend with a flat verge on the inside but with long grass. One of his mates got his line a bit wrong and took his kneecap off on a tree stump hidden in the long grass.
Makes me wince just thinking about it.
Cheers
DP
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The story that Peter tells, I first heard in the mid 1960's, except it was told as a motorcycle gang chasing a car and hitting it with their chains, one of which got caught round the rear bumper. Another urban myth.
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Didn't an aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo have a leg shot off while on horseback next to the Duke? The story is he didn't notice until the Duke pointed it out to him "Gad Sir, you've lost your leg", or some such words.
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Lord Uxbridge - but he certainly noticed!
It was he who remarked to the Duke that he'd lost his leg.
He'd eloped with Wellington's sister-in-law, so the Duke may not have been entirely sorry.
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So that was the source of the old joke:-
"Duke, Duke; I've lost my leg; I've lost my leg."
"Don't be so silly, Uxbridge - that's it lying over there...."
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It was more like:
ADC: 'Gad sir, I've lost my leg!'
Duke: 'Gad sir, so you have.'
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just to take this back towards motoring.... {hooray! - DD}
mate of mine fell of his off-road bike, didn't know he'd broken his left leg in two places ( just below and just above the armour of his boot) until he tried to stand up and promptly fell over - he's still got a titanium rod in there.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 11/02/2008 at 18:57
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It might have been an urban myth to some but they looked remarkable like middle fingers to me, even down to the neatly trimmed nails.
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