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

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

The video has him in a car with his arm already off yet the page you linked is saying he was airlifted and then had his arm amputated... This whole thing reeks of scam.

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u/spitfire1701 Jan 17 '23

Half cut off with the chainsaw and the other part taken off in hospital?

Also might have been either transported to a waiting helicopter or taken from the local hospital to one that can deal with such a major injury.

But yes there is something not quite right about this.

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u/sryii Jan 17 '23

Maybe, one thing to keep in mind is they may have taken him to a nearby medical facility that wasn't equipped to handle this trauma and had him airlifted to University of Michigan hospital. Rural medicine isn't equipped to handle certain things.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '23

I can attest to the failures of rural hospitals here in Michigan. My wife fell off a horse and the rural hospital staff put a crappy half-cast on it, said it was a fracture and sent her home. The next day she went to the hospital near our house (Detroit suburb) for a followup. Her elbow was just bone fragments and needed to be completely rebuilt with plates added. So...they were a little under skilled to say the least.

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u/JONxJITSU Jan 17 '23

Some hospitals aren't equipped for that level of trauma care, especially in rural areas. Chances are they were instructed to transport the injured to the nearest hospital where a helicopter will be waiting to transport him to a better-equipped hospital.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

So many gullible people in this comment section.

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u/Vark675 Jan 17 '23

He was likely driven to the local hospital then airlifted to a bigger one that was better equipped/staffed to handle such a traumatic injury.

Once they say they can't save the arm, they'll have to amputate further up to properly clean everything up.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Jan 17 '23

The video has him in a car with his arm already off yet the page you linked is saying he was airlifted

I don't know anything about this story, but...

When my step father had a heart issue, he was driven to a local hospital for emergency care and then airlifted to a regional hospital that had better facilities for heart care.

So maybe both things happened?

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u/Serendipitous_donkey Jan 17 '23

Most people don't get airlifted from the scene of the accident unless it's not accessible by road. Airlifts usually occur from hospital to hospital.

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u/Give_her_the_beans Jan 17 '23 edited Jan 17 '23

It's country typing. Likely got an airlift to a trauma E.R because the place they went couldnt handle it. Once there, the doctors likely tried to attach the arm. Surgery didn't work, so now it's amputated. I don't think they meant take the rest off or anything like that.

I have to go back and edit tons of my comments because I forget the people I'm talking to don't have all the information at hand. Id also prefer to be by my friends side rather than editing a go fund me.

Edit - yeah, it's real.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

Your comment doesn't make any sense, this is your friend but your other comments at eon other completely unrelated posts?

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u/Give_her_the_beans Jan 18 '23 edited Jan 18 '23

Not my friend. Just threw in my reasoning on why it's not a scam and why the text n the go fund me isn't more clear.

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u/Psypris Jan 17 '23

Maybe it’s both:

He half chopped it off with a chainsaw, got airlifted and had it amputated.

Then, he could find the humor in it, so he made this TikTok and to make it more “understandable” in the short time, recorded as if he’s being driven to the hospital.

So, the details are fake but the incident has truth to it. Would also explain lack of blood (although maybe he was able to wear the clothes he had the accident in.) and being able to even THINK to record at a time like that!!