Japanese Biker Loses Leg… and Doesn’t Notice
A Japanese biker was riding his motorcycle through a curve in the road and was unable to maintain control hitting a safety barrier. The pain was excruciating for the 54 year-old office worker but not enough to halt his scenic ride just west of Hamamatsu, Japan.
It wasn’t until over a mile later, when he stopped, that he realized his leg was missing below the knee. Luckily the guys friend had witnessed the accident and was able to recover the severed leg.
The injured man and his leg were taken to the hospital but the leg was badly crushed.
(CNN)
By Sun Tzu on 19-08-2007
Comment by darkwing duck
August 19th, 2007 at 11:10 am
This guy must be on some kind of drug’s or want to be the Six Million Dollar Man.
Comment by Heather
August 19th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I might reconsider too…
Comment by Tourex
August 19th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
He’ll be experiencing phantom leg syndrome,in the months ahead.
Comment by ka6_jeram
August 20th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Ouch! Is he on some kind of pain-killer drug? Even paper cut is painful enough for me.
Comment by shig
August 20th, 2007 at 9:42 am
It’s only a flesh wound!
Comment by ahlaqamar
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:04 am
You think he noticed because of the significant limp when he alighted from his motorcycle???
Comment by alakazam
August 28th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
must have been one hell of a view.
Comment by Heather
September 7th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
And he doesn’t notice???
Comment by squidgiespet
September 8th, 2007 at 3:17 am
How the heck do you not NOTICE your LEG is missing? It’s not like you misplaced it or something? Last time I checked, it is supposed to stay with you… or did I not get that memo?
Comment by lovelybunchofcoconuts
September 16th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
What sort of a hotpital badly crushes a severed leg?. Why didn’t they try to reattach it?.
Comment by alice
September 28th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Comment by lovelybunchofcoconuts
2007-09-16 19:40:21
What sort of a hotpital badly crushes a severed leg?. Why didn’t they try to reattach
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Comment by stretch
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:33 am
now that’s tough. only a real man can lose his leg and not notice. even mr. t would think that guy’s tough! get some nuts!
Comment by LittleJawa
February 16th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
probably burst of adrenaline that caused him not to notice
Comment by TCupp
April 6th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Being a Biker; if you need an explanation you wouldn’t understand!
Comment by Humus
August 16th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Sometimes if you cant see it you cant feel it, or the body itselves is in shock and you dont feel the pain. Happend to me once i didnt feel pain until long time after i realized i was hurt..
Comment by Francis
September 19th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
The thing we’re seeing here is endorphins at work. They literally cover the nerves responsible for sending pain during intense situations, preventing pain messages from being sent to the brain. It’s the same thing that gives us war hero stories of men doing great deeds and only afterward noticing that they’ve taken one or more bullets.
Comment by lynelle
September 20th, 2008 at 7:18 am
i think the article meant that the leg was crushed while it was still laying on the road.
Comment by Tingbudong
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
OK Biker here too… He probably seriously almost wiped and was stunned by that, I mean he had to scrape or swipe something pretty hard to tear his leg off, Sometimes those near misses just freak you and you take a few minutes with your heart pounding before you can relax and “come down” from it.
Also after a wreck with a friend on the back, we walked the bike back to our dorm and went into a room where a couple of girls were waiting on us and they looked at us a wigged out, we looked at each other and were like “Sorry we we’re late we crashed… What?” We were covered nearly head to toe in blood but neither one of us even SAW it on the other one until then. It was weird and had to be shock. But we had SEVERE road rash and didn’t even begin to notice it until then and didn’t feel anything for about 10 more minutes when our friends started trying to scrub and clean our road rash out also at that point I started getting extremely nauseous and thought I was going to puke, don’t know why. I did hit my head but had a very good full face on, could have been a minor concussion but more likely the come down from the adrenaline high or realization of what happened…
I’m still shocked to think he could ride on sans leg and not spray so much blood that he just bled out and died, and what happened did he pull up to a light and go to put his foot down and just tip over? Id love to know more details… Maybe a crush/crimped, femoral artery and so it didn’t bleed so bad? Makes no sense to me.