(CBS Seattle) -- A Washington man loses his arm from a homemade guillotine. The guillotine unexpectedly dropped on his shoulder Thursday morning at a camp he was living at, severing his arm."Just one more little adjustment... Hmmm... Can't quite get to it... [CHOP!]"
He left the arm behind after the accident
"Pain! Going into shock! My arm? Where'd I leave it?... Can't seem to find it... Guess I'll have to come back and get it later..."
and rushed to Bellingham Urology Specialists.
"Do you have an appointment?"
"[Gasp!] My arm...!"
"Sorry. This is a urology clinic. We don't do arms. Try Bellingham Orthopedics Specialists. They'll be able to help you out!"
Evelyn Leuther,
Lex's Mom...
who works at the clinic, told CBS Seattle a woman passing by said, "I hope that's a Halloween costume," referring to the man missing his arm at the shoulder. But the gore was real. Seconds later, another woman ran by screaming for someone to call 9-1-1. Doctors and nurses from the office rushed to help.
"We're from the urology clinic! We're here to help!"
"Do you have your insurance card with you?"
"It was a sight," she said.
No! Reeeeally?
The scene lasted for 10 minutes
"Should we put a tourniquet on that?"
"We're urologists, man!"
"Well then, we could stick a Foley catheter in there..."
before an ambulance took him to the hospital two blocks away.
"Two blocks? You want us to send an ambo to haul some guy two blocks? Why can't he walk?"
"His arm's chopped off!"
"He wasn't gonna walk on his hands, was he?"
Officers checked a wooded area near the clinic and discovered a camp believed to be the temporary home of the individual. At the camp, officers located the severed arm and a homemade guillotine, which the police then dismantled.
"Y'know, Toody, it's be a real good idea to dismantle that thing."
"I cannot disagree, Muldoon. You move the arm and I'll start taking the thing apart!"
"No, you move the arm!"
"I ain't touchin' it!"
The condition of the victim is not known at this time,
... but we can guess it's not happy...
but Bellingham police said in a release he was being transferred to Harborview in Seattle for further treatment.