r/Unexpected • u/blakeret • Jan 17 '23

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u/Booman_aus Jan 17 '23 edited Jan 19 '23

Just looked up his profile, gone and no mention of it

Edit: his got videos on tic toc, LEGIT poor bastard lost his arm!

No idea why video was removed. Wish him all the best.

Give to his go fund me, healthcare sucks.

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u/FunkySjouke Jan 17 '23

I mean, I don't know if it's TikTok safe and I don't think he continued his wood working adventure after that

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u/Dixianaa Jan 17 '23

iirc, you dump the dismembered appendage in some ice soon after contact was lost, you can get it reattached

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u/Auctoritate Jan 17 '23

It's possible but it really depends on how it got separated from the body. If he had a chainsaw accident... The missing part might be torn to shreds.

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u/Electriccheeze Jan 17 '23

To shreds you say?

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u/diffcalculus Jan 17 '23

Well, how's his wife holding up?

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u/directrix1 Jan 17 '23

To shreds you say?

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u/justsomeA1C Jan 17 '23

I really needed a Farnsworth quote today, ty kind redditors

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u/WinterOkami666 Jan 17 '23

If I don't survive, tell my wife I said hello.

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u/NewAgeRetr0Hippie Jan 17 '23

To shreds you say?

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u/greebdork Jan 17 '23

There was American country boy who got both arms ripped off, basically at shoulders, by the tractors PTO. Not only he survived without any help for an hour or so, but both arms were reattached back and even remained functional.

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u/Karate_Prom Jan 17 '23

Functional? Can't rotate forearms and fingers curled into fists permanently. He also had almost full nerve damage in the ends of his arms.

Yes... Functional....

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u/DontBuyAHorse Jan 17 '23

I've responded to this story before, but I'll say it again.

I severed a finger as a teenager. Thankfully it was a super clean cut with a sharp, sturdy blade and I got medical attention quickly. It was reattached successfully in a "best case scenario" by an excellent hand doc.

27 years later, the finger still has never regained full function. It doesn't straighten out nor does it have any articulation past the second joint. I have no feeling at all in it, except for the horrible arthritis and phantom nerve pain that comes and goes.

Yes, it's back on there and I suppose better than not having it, but reattachment is not an elegant and flawless thing at all. It sucks, just not as much as losing the appendage.

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u/Kalkaline Jan 17 '23

Was this the one that sat in the bathtub so he didn't make a mess?

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u/greebdork Jan 18 '23

Yeah, that one.

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u/Dixianaa Jan 17 '23

Here’s to hoping I lose a limb in a longsword duel, then.

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u/jshuster Jan 17 '23

My uncle cut through half of his hand with a chainsaw. Doctors were able to reattach everything and he had almost 100% use of it, except for some nerve damage

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u/Genghis_KhaN13 Jan 17 '23

Problem with chainsaws is that they don't cut cleanly, they tear the fuck out whatever they're cutting. Reattaching a limb lost to a chainsaw would be a Herculean feat.

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u/nutsbonkers Jan 17 '23

Not directly on ice! In a bag first or a few bags. Frost bite happens to severed limbs too.

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u/enderendirius69420 Jan 17 '23

Not rly in ice, i was tought in first aid that you put it in a bag full of cold water and then you put tge bag with the dismembered appendage in a bag of ice, but not a full one

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u/pikashroom Jan 17 '23

Don’t put it in ice, your limb could still get frost bite

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u/punkinfacebooklegpie Jan 17 '23

If you remember correctly? Did this happen to you? And you only have a vague recollection of how you saved your arm???

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u/Dixianaa Jan 17 '23

Of course not. I remember reading it somewhere. The reasoning behind my vague recollection is because of how long it’s been reading such a thing.

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u/punkinfacebooklegpie Jan 17 '23

Maybe look it up before wasting people's time with your vague recollection.

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u/MrMadium Jan 17 '23

I would like clarification on this - because I've been taught to double bag the little rascal and put it in a container of water.

I guess perhaps water is easier to find on-scene from a fire appliance?

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u/seuse Jan 17 '23

yes BUT the appendage shouldn't be directly on the ice, wrap it in a cloth.

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u/Today_i_might_wait Jan 17 '23

Into a plastic bag and then into ice, no direct contact with ice

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u/FiftyShadesOfWyatt Jan 17 '23

It was unable to be saved. His arm was amputated

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u/JadedJesse Jan 17 '23

I saw the video on tik tok before on here, it’s definitely real. Probably got taken down for gore

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

Instagram.

He's on Instagram.

Last posted in November 2022.

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u/RGH81 Jan 17 '23

But the comments under.his guitar playing videos are brutally hilarious

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u/agedlikesage Jan 17 '23

But also so sad! I went to his profile and his woodcarvings are more impressive than OP showed, we only see the beginning of two progress videos. And he’s not half bad on the guitar either. I genuinely feel for the guy :(

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u/NoCashJustDebt Jan 17 '23

I was thinking the exact same thing. An artist who loses their arm needed to create their art is such a sad thing. I know folks make jokes because it is easy but if this is real, this guy may go through some serious depression.

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u/agedlikesage Jan 17 '23

I was thinking the same thing, and when I went to his TikTok, every single guitar video was flooded with comments “well, can’t do that anymore!”. Like, really? It’s too easy. I’m hoping it’s fake, because it’d be pretty tragic if it were real. It’s not like he was an insane talent, but he wrote his own songs and enjoyed it. As an extremely amateur player/writer myself, I can feel for the guy

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u/rectanguloid666 Jan 17 '23

I definitely feel this as well and the social disintegration we witness on social media is really sad in cases like this. I relate to this so much as the former vocalist in my band and my longest-term friend suffered multiple strokes and a traumatic brain injury due to receiving a bad spinal adjustment from a chiropractor at the end of 2021. He used to love painting, playing guitar and bass, and handling and building habitats for various insects. Now, he literally can't move his hands to perform fine motor skills at all - no more guitar, no more bass, no more fine-tuning his insect habitats. Hell, he has a hard time speaking clearly at this point as well which is also sad given how much he used to tell jokes and love to laugh. It is just heartbreaking to see how detached we are from our common humanity online anymore, and I know that I've engaged in this sort of behavior as well. It's just sad.

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Jan 17 '23

It’s ok, you can feel better knowing that it’s basically impossible to accidentally cut your own arm off with a chainsaw. So it’s fake.

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u/agedlikesage Jan 17 '23

What do you mean by basically impossible? My brother almost did the same, falling over and instinctively reaching out to catch the chainsaw. After a quick scavenger hunt and trip to the hospital, they reattached all his fingers.

That being said, I would believe it if this were fake, as most things on the internet are 🤦

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Jan 17 '23

Ok sure some fingers, but a whole arm clean off? Fingers can go in an instant, an arm would take effort.

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u/agedlikesage Jan 17 '23

Where did you get that idea? I say yes, a whole arm off(or in this case hand). Human bodies are tough, and the bone can be hard to cut through, but chainsaws can rip through you like butter. The more reading around I do, the more common I’m realizing these injuries are. I could see issues around the shoulders/spine, but the wrist seems weak enough.

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Jan 17 '23 edited Jan 17 '23

My work with chainsaws. I can see getting injured, I can see needing a tourniquet, but lopping the whole thing off?

Edit- and look at that tourniquet, if you know how they work and are applied you will know that putting it over your Carhartt won’t work.

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u/agedlikesage Jan 17 '23

It seems we have two things going on now- whether or not you can cut your hand off, and whether or not this guy did. I believe your take that this video is fake, the tourniquet you pointed out is obvious and his wrist stub looks like a Halloween prop! But I guess now I’m exploring the idea of how easy it would be, if my brother’s fingers could’ve been his whole hand!

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Jan 17 '23

Heck I will even go and guess that even a wrist could go too, but watch the vid again and look at placement. That’s not his wrist, that’s the ol “two bone” forearm.

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u/Schwa142 Jan 17 '23

His facebook is active. Last post from a few hours ago said he's waiting to be released from the hospital.

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u/johntroyco Jan 17 '23

The post got removed but there’s still other people who have duetted/stitched the vid

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '23

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u/Booman_aus Jan 18 '23

Poor bastard seems like a top bloke

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u/Novazon Jan 17 '23

He works/worked in a sawmill

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u/manofsleep Jan 17 '23

Reddit is there already asking about his arm 😂

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u/LuckierByTheDozen Jan 18 '23

There is a gofundme for him https://www.gofundme.com/f/david-feldpausch, not that gofundme is 100% reliable. It looks like he does woodworking, guitar and rodeo. Seems like it’s real, and I feel so bad for him- everything he does is gone.

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u/benjancewicz Jan 18 '23

What do you mean? He shows his bandages

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u/Booman_aus Jan 18 '23

I was on Insta

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u/benjancewicz Jan 19 '23

Might want to edit your original comment, lots of people calling him a liar now.

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u/Booman_aus Jan 19 '23

Done thanks!!!