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| Farmer Collects Severed Limb And Drives For Help |
| 2003-12-23 |
| A farmer whose arm was torn off in a tractor accident picked up the limb, climbed back on and headed for home to get help. "What was I supposed to do? Lie there and die?" James Arlen Mondy’s wife quoted him as saying. Doctors at St. John’s Regional Health Center in Springfield, Mo., were unable to reattach his arm after the Dec. 16 accident. He was recovering at the hospital Tuesday. Mondy, 56, was bumped off his tractor when it hit a hole. The spinning blades of a brush cutter then chopped off his arm at the shoulder. I’ve put in a lot of miles on one of these brush cutters, they still scare the hell out of me. On his ride home, he had to stop to open a gate, drove through, then got off the tractor again to close the gate, and continued on his way. Got to make sure the cows don’t get out. He started to feel lightheaded, but met a passing couple who summoned help. Still grow them tough in the Heartland of America. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #4 They ought to have the guy fly to a meeting of the Arab League and give a seminar on what it is to be tough. Maybe they would see the light and stop messing with us. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-12-23 7:46:32 PM |
| #3 Bet he's back on that tractor pretty damn soon, too. Too much work to do to be sitting around a hospital. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2003-12-23 6:13:59 PM |
| #2 Bet he paid for the ambulance in cash. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-23 5:11:23 PM |
| #1 Sounds a lot like that guy that cut off his own arm in UT. Tough-as-nails people - ya gotta love 'em. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-23 4:51:55 PM |