Man uses prosthetic leg for assault

UPI ^ | 2-20-04

[Indy Pendance]

FREDRICKSBURG, Va., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A Virginia man has been charged with pulling off a neighbor's prosthetic leg and beating him with it during an argument.

The fight started when the victim, Michael Clapp, 38, discovered a bottle of medicine missing from his Townsend Boulevard apartment Wednesday night, The Free Lance Star of Fredricksburg, Va., reported Friday.

Clapp suspected his neighbor, 27-year-old Rodney Prophitt, and went next door to confront him, city police spokesman Jim Shelhorse said.

Upon being confronted, Prophitt knocked Clapp to the ground, then pulled off Clapp's artificial leg and struck him with it several times.

"At some point, Clapp was able to grab his leg back, get back to his apartment and call 911," Shelhorse said.

Police charged Prophitt with felonious assault and petty larceny.

Clapp was treated at Mary Washington Hospital for a broken nose and other facial injuries.

[CindyDawg]

I wonder if they charged him with using a weapon? Sounds like kicking to me.

[Servant of the 9]

Sounds like Prophitt caught the Clapp.

So9

[Reaganesque]

I swear officer, it wasn't me!! It was the one-legged man!

[KantianBurke]

"The fight started when the victim, Michael Clapp, 38, discovered a bottle of medicine missing from his Townsend Boulevard apartment Wednesday night"

The thief ever heard of CVS? Let's see - pay $5 for my own bottle or go out of my way to steal my neighbors and get my ass kicked. Hmm...tough choice.

[TC Rider]

When prosthetic leg are outlawed,
only outlaws will have prosthetic legs

[TC Rider]

Clapp was truly the one-legged man in a @ss kicking contest.

[dts32041]

I have heard of pulling off an arm and beating someone with the bloody stump, but not with a leg.

[Riley]

Oh, there was an old soldier and he had a wooden leg,
He had no tobacco, no tobacco could he beg.
Another old soldier, as sly as a fox,
He always kept tobacco in his old tobacco box.
He always kept tobacco in his old tobacco box.

Said the one old soldier, "won't you give me a chew?"
Said the other old soldier, "I'll be hanged if I do,
Just save up your money and put away your rocks,
And you'll always have tobacco in your old tobacco box.
And you'll always have tobacco in your old tobacco box".

Well, the one old soldier, he was feeling mighty bad,
He said, "I'll get even, I will begad!"
He goes to a corner, takes a rifle from the peg,
And stabs the other soldier with a splinter from his leg.
And stabs the other soldier with a splinter from his leg.

[SouthernFreebird]

LMAO, hope someone caught that on tape.

[BluSky]

HEADLINES:

Man Beats Crap out of Clapp with his Woody.

[Mikey]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ROFLMAO.

[Mikey]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

ROFLMAO

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA