Vet forced to sever own arm after getting it stuck in meat grinder - Sensationalist Headlines

https://nypost.com/2018/09/26/vet-forced-to-sever-own-arm-after-getting-it-stuck-in-meat-grinder/ JAMESTOWN, N.D. — A 69-year-old Vietnam vet who lost a hand after it got stuck in a meat mixer while he was making sausage at his North Dakota home says he had to slice off his left arm above the wrist with a butcher knife or risk bleeding to death. The bone was severed, but his arm was still caught by muscle, nerves and skin. He grabbed the knife, which was mercifully within reach, and cut himself free.

Jesus fucking christ, what a badass.

Survival Instinct kicking in. Let's hope he does have phantom pain after recovery.

Got confused by the term Vet in this context. Anyway, this guy has balls to do that, I wouldn't know if I could have done it if I was in his situation.

Are you saying you want him to become Venom Snake and get a cool rocket arm?

Yeah, and he even got to make some special Veteran Army sausage

even though the comment is stupid, that is an actual thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_pain

Yeah I know

doesn't

christ how do you not succumb to shock

“It would be very easy to sit back, feel sorry for myself and get depressed,” he said. “I went through Vietnam. I can handle this.” This is one tough guy, you gotta respect that.

On the other hand, pun not intended, Vietnam was a special kind of hell if dealing with severing your own arm is a smaller issue

Jesus fucking christ on a bike. That is one mother fucker i would not fuck with.

I wonder if he ever thought about the possibility of it happening before. I used to work with a dough roller that could have flattened my hands if I had just put them centimeters too far and I thought about that constantly.

cant imagine how much adrenaline this old boy had pumping in him

Maybe the fact you were thinking about it caused you to proceed with caution? I worked in an engineering plant as an apprentice at age 16, had access and was working with very useful but extremely dangerous equipment daily. Worst I'd say was the mechanical lathe for exercising caution just cause I had seen what it can do to a person in YouTube videos, literally checking myself for any loose bits sticking out my clothing twice over before operating and I never got fucked up Anyway I did end up nearly losing the tip of my index finger to a tiny grinder thing, not sure what it was called but it was a piston grinding machine and locked them in place while you grinded it off stone and sprayed it with coolant. Had a lock on it, first day using it and my supervisor/boss goes up to his office to toss one off and I left the lock "on" tried to grab the piston out and my finger got pulled unbelievably fast into the grinder. Literally never felt a thing, first thing I did was bandage it up since you could see the bone. Didn't stop bleeding for over a week, every slight move and it reopened the wound. Know what my boss asked of me? "Can you stop bleeding all over the workshop." Like motherfucker this is half your fault if not more since you were supposed to be supervising me but no you were probably on that site oldfartsyoungtarts.com I mean remember when you got me to look at your pc cause it was slow well. Let's just assume what we want to Anyway point is exercise caution, things can and will be a lot worse if you don't

Probably more badass than if he had lost it in combat.

What a horrifically shitty situation to be in. Like the agonizing pain and the morbid ass visuals must have been fucking terrible but not having a real arm anymore sucks even more.

this is why when my dad shoves his hand down the brush grinder I get angry. these things are way more dangerous than we give them credit for and we get way too complacent around.

So the picture is... what? A dramatic recreation?!

Schlafman said he was taking a chunk of meat out of the mixer in the garage of his Jamestown home when he accidentally stepped on a pedal to activate the machine. this is why you take 5 seconds to shut the power off before sticking your arm into a meat grinder

Damn veterinarians are so bad-ass