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Man builds himself bionic hands
www.yahoo.com ^ | Aug. 15, 2012 | EuroPics/CEN/Yahoo

Posted on 08/15/2012 1:34:05 PM PDT by nerdwithagun

After the accident, Sun Jifa, 51, of Guanmashan, Jilin province, in northern China, desperately needed to work on his family farm, according to the Daily Mail. “I survived, but I had no hands,” he explained.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: bionichands
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To: douginthearmy

Sorry to sound so cold but the guy was using homemade bombs for fishing? Where he’s obviously quite talented as a machinist he couldn’t come up with, oh say, a net?

I’m happy for him that he survived but one has to wonder if he learned anything from the experience or did he just build his own prosthetics so he can go back to making his own bombs?


21 posted on 08/15/2012 4:53:46 PM PDT by MeganC (The Cinemark theatre in Aurora, CO is a 'Gun Free Zone'. Spread the word.)
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To: NativeSon
"Did he use his feet?"

Some folks have a lot of dexterity and can do some amazing things with their feet.

22 posted on 08/15/2012 5:02:38 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I’m not clicking on that link until I have a few more drinks in me


23 posted on 08/15/2012 5:10:43 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: NativeSon

It’s nothing untoward...it’s actually kind of inspiring.


24 posted on 08/15/2012 5:15:19 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: MeganC
Obviously you have never been poor or hungry. This is why we should be so grateful to be Americans. Point is, he makes bombs himself rather than buying them at Bombs-R-Us, because he is poor. He uses bombs to fish, because bombs kill fish easily and he is hungry. It's very simple and very smart. It takes a certain kind of first world hubris to sit back and disparage his reasoning when you can't even begin to imagine the situation or the choices.

He wasn't choosing whether to window shop at Macy's or go blow up some fish. He wasn't choosing to go cow tipping or blow up some fish. He wasn't choosing to download the latest app or go blow up some fish. He was choosing whether to eat or not.

25 posted on 08/15/2012 10:23:22 PM PDT by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
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