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2011-10-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Not a Halloween Costume: Washington Man Cuts Off Arm With Guillotine

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Posted by Fred 2011-10-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Yeah, it's all fun and games until somebody loses an arm.

Posted by SteveS 2011-10-30 00:05|| 2011-10-30 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Fred---you must be feeling better. You are on a roll tonight! Your sense of humor is sharper than a..............guillotine...

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-10-30 00:49|| 2011-10-30 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Long time ago, but I think I got a Boy Scout badge for "execution machines". Perhaps he's a late bloomer?

Posted by Frank G 2011-10-30 01:02|| 2011-10-30 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 What's that? One armed man, ya say?
Sure, send him right over...

Posted by Dr. Richard Kimble 2011-10-30 01:22|| 2011-10-30 01:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Wasn't Harrison Ford looking for him?

Posted by Jan 2011-10-30 03:47|| 2011-10-30 03:47|| Front Page Top

#6 You gotta be a real whack job to want to build a functioning guillotine.

Posted by gorb 2011-10-30 04:19|| 2011-10-30 04:19|| Front Page Top

#7 "It's perfectly safe. Let me show you"

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-10-30 05:25|| 2011-10-30 05:25|| Front Page Top

#8 A contender for the 2011 Darwin Award, but missed it by 'that much'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-10-30 08:34|| 2011-10-30 08:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Frank G (#3) - you have *got* to elaborate on that.

I didn't think the BS had a 'execution machine' badge....

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-10-30 09:12|| 2011-10-30 09:12|| Front Page Top

#10 BS did, but BSA didn't. Maybe he's thinking of Citizenship in the World.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-10-30 09:51|| 2011-10-30 09:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, there ARE secret merit badges...such as pyromaniac and lockpicking, which I learned at Scout camp. We were supposed to be learning rowing but since the instructor locked his keys in the shack, showed us instead how to pick locks.

Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-10-30 13:25|| 2011-10-30 13:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Pyromaniac isn't a badge, it's a basic requirement for scouting. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-30 13:37|| 2011-10-30 13:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Probably just as well this happened before he decided to test it (on himself or someone else).

Posted by tipover 2011-10-30 14:49|| 2011-10-30 14:49|| Front Page Top

#14 you just know this started with: "here, hold my beer"

Posted by Frank G 2011-10-30 14:53|| 2011-10-30 14:53|| Front Page Top

#15 The local reports, on the day this happened said the guy was a transient, so it was a homeless camp he lived in, just for the record.
Question is: Why would a bum build such a thing? agressive panhandling technique?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2011-10-30 20:11|| 2011-10-30 20:11|| Front Page Top

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