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This guy signals left turns by holding his arm out the window.
I find this interesting. Unless it somehow went in perfectly parallel to his bone, you'd think there would be a bulge or something in his arm.
There's a picture in the link that I can't add for some reason. Click on it to see the part and make an advertiser happy. http://www.kmov.com/news/talkers/51-...287288131.html 51 years after wreck, 7-inch car part found in arm of Granite City man CREVE COEUR, Mo. (AP) — Fifty-one years ago, Arthur Lampitt of Granite City, Illinois, smashed his 1963 Thunderbird into a truck. This week during surgery in suburban St. Louis, a 7-inch turn signal lever from that T-Bird was removed from his left arm. Dr. Timothy Lang removed the lever Wednesday during a 45-minute operation. Lampitt, now 75, is recovering at home. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the accident broke Lampitt's hip, drawing attention away from the arm, which healed. A decade or so ago, his arm set off a metal detector at a courthouse. An X-ray showed a slender object the length of a pencil, but since it caused no pain or hardship, Lampitt was told to let it be. He was moving concrete blocks a few weeks ago when the arm began to hurt for the first time. "Everything was fine until it started to get bigger," Lampitt's wife, Betty, said. "The arm started bulging." Lampitt decided to have surgery. He initially wasn't sure what was in the arm. He wondered if perhaps a medical instrument had been left during the emergency room visit in 1963. He unearthed a collection of old photos of the mangled Thunderbird taken by a friend at the scene. He noticed the metal blinker lever was missing from the left side of the steering column. He figured that was it, and surgery at City Place Surgery Center in Creve Coeur, Missouri, confirmed it. "Seven inches long," Lang told Betty. "Oh, my God," Betty said. Lang said a protective pocket grew around the lever. "We see all kinds of foreign objects like nails or pellets, but usually not this large, usually not a turn signal from a 1963 T-Bird," Lang said. "Something this large often gets infected." Lampitt wasn't sure what he'd do with the lever — maybe make a key chain out of it. "We'll figure out something, I am sure," he said. |
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Well, he didn't die and isn't seriously injured, so I'm having trouble thinking of clever and hilarious jokes and puns for this one.
Something more gruesome and tragic next time, please. |
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Yeah, I guess that is a problem in my thread design.
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At least ya tried, man. rep
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"Seven inches long," Lang told Betty.
"Oh, my God," Betty said. Heh. |
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I wonder if he had an IV of blinker fluid during the surgery?
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It's hard to believe there was never any signal that something might be wrong.
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The missing car part was an indicator.
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I just saw the picture of the foreign body. I'm guessing he'd have noticed a problem with his forearm if the radius had been bigger.
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This would be quite a sinister problem.
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Et tu, Cochise?
It certainly wasn't a dexter one.
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He had probably been having pain off and on for quite some time.
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He's from a generation that didn't blink when it came to pain.
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