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Piece of man's skull falls off, draws crowds
Reuters ^ | Wed Jul 5, 2006 7:58am ET | By Bappa Majumdar

Posted on 07/06/2006 1:09:03 AM PDT by sully777

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off.

Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy's skull came away Sunday after severe burns starved it of blood.

"When he came to us late last year, his scalp was completely burned and within months it came off exposing the skull," Ratan Lal Bandyopadhyay, the surgeon who treated Roy told Reuters Wednesday.

"Later, we noticed that the part of his skull was loosening due to lack of blood supply to the affected area, which can happen in such extensive burn cases."

The piece came off Sunday and hundreds of people and dozens of doctors now crowd around his bed, where he lies holding the bone.

Bandyopadhyay said the skull's inner covering and the membrane which helps produce bone was miraculously unaffected, allowing fresh bone to grow.

"When the skull came off, I thought he will die, but we noticed a new covering on his head forming and that might have pushed the 'dead skull' out," he said.

While possible, such cases are extremely rare.

Roy was injured and almost killed when he was electrocuted while repairing a high voltage wire last October.

"Doctors say a new skull covering has replaced the old one, but I am not letting go of this one," he told Reuters.

He intends to keep his prized possession for life and not hand it over to the hospital when he leaves: "My skull has made me famous," he says


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: hothead; india; losthead; ouch; skull; weird
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1 posted on 07/06/2006 1:09:09 AM PDT by sully777
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To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro; EveningStar
ping
2 posted on 07/06/2006 1:11:41 AM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: CarrotAndStick

India ping


3 posted on 07/06/2006 1:12:26 AM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: sully777

Step right up and see the amazing Molting Man of Kolkata!!!


4 posted on 07/06/2006 1:17:57 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Refute the Drive-By Media. Sí, Se Puede!)
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To: sully777

Thanks for the ping!

Freaky.


5 posted on 07/06/2006 1:21:01 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I'm not a union supporter except when it comes to electricians. Whatever money they want they can have. Godloveem' they're some of the bravest, craziest SOBs that walk the planet. There's not enough money in the world that would allow me to overcome the fear of what happened to this guy. Imagine waking up after a bolt burned your head as it exited from a live wire.


6 posted on 07/06/2006 1:25:08 AM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: sully777
"When the skull came off, I thought he will die...

Why would they not have been able to put a metal plate in his head?

7 posted on 07/06/2006 1:32:59 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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To: sully777
Imagine waking up after a bolt burned your head as it exited from a live wire.

I know, I hate it when that happens.

8 posted on 07/06/2006 1:36:14 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: sully777

Oh, come on! Isn't anyone going to make a comment about an Indian being scalped?


9 posted on 07/06/2006 1:37:53 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
I hate when that happens!


10 posted on 07/06/2006 1:40:40 AM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Why would they not have been able to put a metal plate in his head?

Exactly. Maybe he could use one of these:


11 posted on 07/06/2006 1:43:24 AM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity.)
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To: Yossarian

Yossarian--Catch22-- I just purchased the book.


12 posted on 07/06/2006 1:50:39 AM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Pancake?


13 posted on 07/06/2006 1:56:09 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: sully777

Sambhu...sucks to be you dude.


14 posted on 07/06/2006 2:37:32 AM PDT by Khurkris (Things look different from over here.)
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To: sully777

At least he's keeping an open mind.


15 posted on 07/06/2006 4:41:05 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: sully777; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Watch out for zombies.


16 posted on 07/06/2006 8:15:58 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Pray for peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Poor guy's going to pieces.

(GROAN)


17 posted on 07/06/2006 9:44:04 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: sully777

"Dude, that was my skull, I'm so wasted."


18 posted on 07/06/2006 9:45:29 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mr. Brightside
At least he's keeping an open mind.

Hat's off to him for that.

19 posted on 07/06/2006 9:46:53 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: sully777
>Piece of man's skull falls off


Aw, this kind of stuff
happens to Jessica and
Ashlee all the time . . .

20 posted on 07/06/2006 9:47:03 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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