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the professor
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 Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:19 am
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This has got to be one tough guy.
Farmer Loses Arm But Collects Severed Limb And Drives For Help
POSTED: 2:40 PM EST December 23, 2003
UPDATED: 4:34 PM EST December 23, 2003
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HARRISON, Ark. -- A farmer whose arm was torn off in a tractor accident picked up the limb, climbed back on and headed for home to get help.
"What was I supposed to do? Lie there and die?" James Arlen Mondy's wife quoted him as saying.
Doctors at St. John's Regional Health Center in Springfield, Mo., were unable to reattach his arm after the Dec. 16 accident. He was recovering at the hospital Tuesday.
Mondy, 56, was bumped off his tractor when it hit a hole, said his wife, Janet Mondy. The spinning blades of a brush cutter then chopped off his arm at the shoulder.
On his ride home, he had to stop to open a gate, drove through, then got off the tractor again to close the gate, and continued on his way. He started to feel lightheaded, but met a passing couple who summoned help.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by the professor on 12-27-2003] |
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Mech
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Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:36 am
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Farmers are very tough individuals. look at their working conditions. So are their sons for that matter.
At my grandfather's/uncle's farm,my little cousin at age 5 was teasing a bull through a fence and smaking it on the nose. Well..the bull didn't take it and proceded to jab a horn right up under my cousins jaw. My uncle told me that about a minute later my little cousin punched the bull on the nose and said..."Stupid Cow!" (While sobbing and bleeding of course).
Typical farm kid!
[Edited 1 times, lastly by Mech on 12-23-2003] |
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the professor
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Sat Dec 27, 2003 7:32 am
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As they say , that'll toughen the hide up. |
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Mech
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Sat Dec 27, 2003 1:42 pm
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He's a tough little guy.
He went on to be really good at youth boxing (a Canadian mainstay).
[Edited 1 times, lastly by Mech on 12-27-2003] |
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