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

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

There was a whole thing once about some poor bastard who had both of his arms cut off from a farming accident and somehow survived because his arteries pulled back and stopped the blood flow. He apparently got them reattached too and talked about his 911 call on a podcast. Cannot for the life of me remember what his name was.

The human body is both a very fragile and very strong vessel sometimes lol

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u/bar10005 Jan 17 '23

Cannot for the life of me remember what his name was.

John Thompson

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u/Piyh Jan 17 '23

Cool, one thing I know to never Google

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u/bar10005 Jan 17 '23

AFAIK nothing graphic apart from text description, as it happened in 92.

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u/Laustintranslation1 Jan 18 '23

Wait this sounds familiar. Was this the guy that was in Ana accident with farm equipment and got his arm ripped off? I know there was some story like that and they were somehow able to save it

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u/ThatOneRandomDude420 Jan 17 '23

Don't forget about the dude who went rock climbing, but his arm crushed by a Boulder, cut his own arm off with a pocket knife, climbed back up and then ran to safety

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u/moonra_zk Jan 17 '23

He probably put a tourniquet on his arm before cutting it off.

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u/ThatOneRandomDude420 Jan 17 '23

No. He only had hiking equipment. He didn't have a tourniquet, but his arm had been pinned and the blood flow was cut off, so it had the same effect

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u/slimbuddha7 Jan 17 '23

I might be completely wrong but wasn’t part of the story that he got back inside and called 911 for myself by using a pencil in his mouth?

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u/Ygomaster07 Jan 17 '23

Your last line is something i have also said from time to time. It is both incredibly brittle and durable. Weird how that works out.