Man amputates arm, hikes to safety
by This is crazy.... this guy hiking in Colorado actually got pinned by a boulder and cut off his own arm to survive... soo nuts!
Ralston was climbing Saturday in Blue John Canyon, adjacent to Canyonlands National Park in far southwestern Utah, when a 200-pound boulder fell on him, pinning his right arm, authorities said.
He ran out of water on Tuesday and on Thursday morning, he decided that his survival required drastic action.
Using his pocketknife, he amputated his arm below the elbow and applied a tourniquet and administered first aid.
He then rigged anchors, fixed a rope and rappelled to the canyon floor.
He hiked downstream and was spotted about 3 p.m. by a Utah Public Safety Helicopter. The search for Ralston had begun the same morning, after authorities were notified he was four days overdue reporting for work.
Heres the story on Msnbc.com SOOO crazy....
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AHHH! thats horrible!
you know, i bet he's going to have a hard time buttoning his shirts from now on
what do you call a man with no arms and no legs and stuck to a wall?? Art.
what do you call the limbs of a man with no arms and legs stuck to a wall? Pieces of Art....
hahah i'm thinking you and i have a similar sense of humor...
What do you call a man with no arms and legs on hot asphalt? FLIP!!!
What do you call a legless and armless boy on a baseball team? First base!!!
what do u call a legless and armless guy floating in the water? Bob!
what do u call a one-legged hooker? Eileen!
what do u call a man with no arms and no legs in some leaves? russel!
what do you call a man with no arms and no legs in HOT water? STEW!!!!
what do u call a dog with no legs? u can't! he won't come!
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs that stunts allergies? Hank.
what do u call a guy with no arms and no legs under a car? Ax3l!
what do u call a guy with no arms and no legs on a piano? BRIAN!! hahahahaha
you need more sleep
i don't get it
dont worry there was nothing to get
(Derek Jeter could never be this clever.)
thats why you dont go hiking by yourself. Loser.
Something like this happened a while ago, except happenned with a dude's leg. He did this same thing.. cutting off his leg with a pocket knife. I guess the moral is, always make sure you have a pocket knife on you, when you go out hiking.
yeah, because you never know when having two arms is one too many.
or just don't go hiking and get to keep all your limbs
hold up a sec... this guy couldn't lift a 200 pound "boulder"?? thats not even that heavy. the guy was probably a gay. that would explain his lack of strength and reason for going hiking in the first place
matt, you couldnt lift a 200 pound boulder with ONE arm... cmon... you diesel.. but not THAT diesel....
with adrenilane, dude i could do it! plus it was two arms, including the one trapped under the rock
update.. they said its 1000 pound, not 200... soo... no way he could have lifted it....
okay okay, no normal human couldv'e done it. but I couldve!
did they go back for the arm? they started searching for him the day he cut his arm off. what if he had waited like 4 hours and they found him?
ugh i know i was thinking that. i bet he's always gonna have that thought at the back of his mind and it'll spiral him into a deep depression for the rest of his life
there's no way i could do that. i just can't get the right leverage with my left hand...
oh yeah if he was right handed, he probably did a really sloppy cutting job with his left
Don't you think you would pass out from the pain before you could finish?
i don't know that there's much feeling left in the arm after 5 days
no, im sure it was gone anyways, 1000 pound ANYTHING falls on your arm, its pretty much done for. Hes crazy, i read more things about this guy, he was known for being able to survive in the mountains cause he was just CRAZY... soo cool, i wanna be a mountian man!
you never will be. NEVER!! imagine eating roots and stuff to live.
man the bells have a crazy mountain man in the woods behind their houses and one time jesse told amy scary stories about him and he's like "are you scared?" no she replies. 3 minutes later linda comes outta the house, "brad, why is amy crying?"
ok, they got his arm back. took like 15 people to move the rock.
the story
now they say the rock was 800 pounds...
imagine the tax dollars that went into just rescuing his arm...
I think they had to move it for safety reasons, getting his mangled, severed arm back was just a plus.
great! so now he's mr. flat-arm man
they did a skit on this guy on SNL