sorry, but having known a person who wore a fake leg, one cannot have any idea of the utter nightmare of not finding your leg can be. when i was a kid, one of my dads friends got his leg chopped off riding a tractor, well, he had no one, so he convalesced at our home. i was 7 or 8 at the time. besides being terrified of the man with no leg, my grandmother would always be cleaning the house and move his leg. you wanna talk about terrified screams? you havent heard anything like this, trust me. he would moan and say bring me my leg or bring me a knife so i can cut my throat. im not kidding. so you see, stealing a leg is not a funny matter to the legless. btw, he recovered, got married and had three kids, he did ok.
My wife's cousin lost the lower half of her leg in a farm mishap when she was a kid. She is a beutiful lady, and has a sense of humor about her prosthetic that would probably seem sick to outsiders. She would never "scream" about her mom misplacing her leg, but would robably make the kind of puns that are being made here. Different strokes, I suppose, but I think her attitude is healthier than freaking out and geting PC.
When I was a little kid in the early 60's, a local cabdriver who was WWII vet had a wooden leg. He delighted in showing it off to kids, especially, and who,like me, were totally fascinated with it. The adults were uneasy but understanding. Everyone called him "Pegleg" Thomas.......