Posted on 09/18/2002 10:34:37 AM PDT by dead
A man has undergone microsurgery to try and reattach his little finger, penis, scrotum and left hand - all which he cut off in an alleged drug-induced act of self-mutilation.
Police said the man was believed to be high on amphetamines. He attacked himself with a large kitchen carving knife during an argument with his wife at a home in the northern NSW town of Inverell.
The bizarre act of self-mutilation was witnessed by two ambulance officers who were called to the home at 2.30pm on Tuesday by the distraught woman after the man, aged 38, initially cut off the little finger on his right hand. Inverell police Inspector Dave Harrington said when ambulance officers arrived at the home, the woman ran from the house followed by the man, who was still armed with the knife.
The man then cut off his scrotum and penis before lopping off his left hand at the wrist-joint, just as Inspector Harrington and six other police officers arrived at the scene.
It took all seven officers to hold the man down while the ambulance officers applied pressure bandages to stem the bleeding.
Inspector Harrington said that had the ambulance officers not been on hand the man might have died from massive blood loss. "It is one of the worst things I've seen in 16 years," Inspector Harrington said. "Police have reason to believe he was affected by amphetamines at the time.
"The man was taken under police restraint by ambulance to the small Inverell Base Hospital, where two local doctors performed emergency surgery while they awaited the arrival of an Air Ambulance plane and a physician with the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service."
Inspector Harrington said officers recovered the severed body parts, which were later packed in ice in the hope they could be reattached with microsurgery.
The body parts accompanied the heavily sedated man on the Air Ambulance flight back to Sydney on Tuesday night.
On arrival at 10.30pm, the man was transferred to St George Hospital, where he underwent further surgery.
The hospital yesterday refused to reveal whether attempts to reattach the man's body parts were successful. However, the hospital did say that after the microsurgery the man was in a critical but stable condition.
Inspector Harrington said it had been a traumatic experience for ambulance and police officers involved.
"They [the police officers] have received some counselling today in relation to the incident," he said.
Kids, drugs are bad...
Mkay?
I guess it's no great loss. ;^D
Right little finger, left hand, scrotum, and penis.
If you ask me, the guy's just begging to have them reattached in all the wrong places.
Sing with me....
The knuckle bone's connected to the .... Pelvic bone
The dick bone's connected to the .... Knuckle bone
The wrist bone's connected to the .... little finger bone
The scrotum bone's connected to the .... Wrist bone
Not the most flattering term, under the circumstances.
The man then cut off his scrotum and penis
THAT's gonna leave a mark.
Detachable Penis
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
And my penis was missing again.
This happens all the time.
It's detachable.
[background singing begins: "detachable penis" over and over]
This comes in handy a lot of the time.
I can leave it home, when I think it's gonna get me in trouble,
or I can rent it out, when I don't need it.
But now and then I go to a party, get drunk,
and the next morning I can't for the life of me
remember what I did with it.
First I looked around my apartment, and I couldn't find it.
So I called up the place where the party was,
they hadn't seen it either.
I asked them to check the medicine cabinet
'cause for some reason I leave it there sometimes
But not this time.
So I told them if it pops up to let me know.
I called a few people who were at the party,
but they were no help either.
I was starting to get desperate.
I really don't like being without my penis for too long.
It makes me feel like less of a man,
and I really hate having to sit down every time I take a leak.
After a few hours of searching the house,
and calling everyone I could think of,
I was starting to get very depressed,
so I went to the Kiev, and ate breakfast.
Then, as I walked down Second Avenue towards St. Mark's Place,
where all those people sell used books and other junk on the street,
I saw my penis lying on a blanket
next to a broken toaster oven.
Some guy was selling it.
I had to buy it off him.
He wanted twenty-two bucks, but I talked him down to seventeen.
I took it home, washed it off,
and put it back on. I was happy again. Complete.
People sometimes tell me I should get it permanently attached,
but I don't know.
Even though sometimes it's a pain in the ass,
I like having a detachable penis.
[background voices continue to sing "detachable penis" for
a while, then out]
Guess things aren't going so well "down under", for this guy, at least.
I'm trying to figure out the loistics....I guess first the finger, then the penis and scrotom then the hand? I mean if you cut off the hand first it would be difficult to whack the talliwhacker would it not? One would think that after cutting off the finger or penis, that perhaps the exhibition had gone far enough? But this guy decided that this was not enough. hmmmmmmmm
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