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| Man Discovers Severed Leg in Smoker Bought at North Carolina Auction |
| 2007-09-26 |
| MAIDEN, North Carolina — A man who bought a smoker at an auction of abandoned items might have thought twice had he looked inside first. Maiden police said Tuesday the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches (5 to 8 centimeters) above the knee. The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility, so investigators contacted the mother and son who had rented the space where the smoker was found. The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery "for religious reasons" she doesn't know much about. "The rest of the family was very much against it," Steele said. Steele said her son, John Wood, plans to drive to Maiden, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) northwest of Charlotte, to reclaim his amputated leg, police said. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #8 Maybe this explains how Eric Rudolph was able to last so long without supplies before turning himself in to authorities in NC. Giving new meaning to living off the land or passerbys which ever presented itself first. Queue Deliverance Music. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-09-26 19:24 |
| #7 incurable ham :o) |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-09-26 18:17 |
| #6 Mom finally did something about her comedian son being such an incurable ham. Zen? Make like the sound of one hand clapping until the meds kick in, OK, boy? |
| Posted by: Omusomp Scourge of the Leprechauns1107 2007-09-26 18:00 |
| #5 Yep, when ahma doin mah smokin, nuthin adds to tha flava like the seesoning of ampatated leg... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-09-26 16:48 |
| #4 Mom finally did something about her comedian son being such an incurable ham. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-26 16:13 |
| #3 Note to self: it wasn't strictly necessary to click on this link. Ugh. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-09-26 16:06 |
| #2 At first I thought that the smoker had previously been owned by a forgetful cannibal, but this makes more sense (a bit). |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2007-09-26 16:04 |
| #1 Man Discovers Severed Leg in Smoker Bought at North Carolina Auction The secrete story is the Smoker waz made In & By Mattel® of China. |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-09-26 15:54 |