Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg

[Edbear]

Doncha jus hate it when that happens....

[FkNAmerican]

"He felt excruciating pain but didnt notice the missing limb"..........

One would think that a ripped off limb would not be the most comfortable thing to have flapping in an 60 m.p.h. wind.........jeeezuz.

[dasser]

Tue Aug 14, 9:53 AM ET

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been
severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for
more than a mile, leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb.
The 54-year-old office worker was out on his motorcycle with a group
of friends in the city of Hamamatsu, west of Tokyo, on Monday, when he
was unable to negotiate a curve in the road and bumped into the
central barrier, the Mainichi Shimbun said.

He felt excruciating pain, but did not notice that his right leg was
missing until he stopped at the next junction, the paper quoted local
police as saying. The man and his leg were taken to a hospital, but
the limb had been crushed in the collision, the paper said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/japan_bik...vh.0vW9ABdwiZn

( What the...... )

[MotoGirl]

He felt excruciating pain, but did not notice that his right leg was missing until he stopped at the next junction

Hmm, it doesn't sound normal to keep riding with excruciating pain! Maybe he was in shock or something...

[Bend-it]

Don't let anything get in the way of a good ride eh? shivers!

[Oakie]

I wonder exactly HOW he found out his leg was missing when 'he stopped at the next junction'?
Did he go to change down and was unable to?
Did he try to apply the back brake and was not able to feel it?
Did he just grind to a clutch-in, front brake halt and then when he tried to put his foot on the road ... just keep going until he hit the road?

But what I really want to know is how the hell he rode for nearly 2km and didn't notice that his leg wasn't supported by a footpeg?

[Devil]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=55381

[90s]

My uncle (who sadly died of cancer this year) rode BMWs. One day he fell off his bike in front of the A&E with half a foot missing. He rode some time to get there, but has no memory of the accident or riding to the hospital. (Police think a large truck wheel 'took it').

People loosing limbs etc in accidents get all kinds of crazy signals through the nerves - not just "hmmm, no pressure on my footpeg". And of course they still get nerve signals 'from' limbs no longer there. And andrenalin stops people feeling the extent of inguries for some time.

Now if the Japanese man had turned up for work the next day without realising that then that would have been a story.

Crazy world eh?

Douglas Bader: "Nurse my left leg itches like crazy. I wish you'd amputated that one as well."
Nurse: "Well sorry to have to tell you but ... "

[Sanx]

Douglas Bader: "Nurse my left leg itches like crazy. I wish you'd amputated that one as well."
Nurse: "Well sorry to have to tell you but ... "

Another Reach for the Skies fan, huh?

It's just amazing to read what Bader did after losing his legs in that accident. Battle of Britain flying ace, mulitple escapes from PoW camps, interned in Colditz Castle, very competitive golf (only whilst wearing his golf legs, though) ... and still flew regularly up until retirement.

[90s]

He was also in the prison camp football team, where his skill on the ball and un-foulable metal legs made him quite the menace ...

Soon someone will post that story about the 1 armed judo champion who used the only move that can't be countered without grabbing the left arm to turn his disability into his advantage ...

[BMW]

feel sorry for the guy that picked up his foot and leg!

yuck!

[RT527]

more than likely his muscle would have contracted around the torn part of the limb and there would have been little or no blood for a while, it happens in accident victims especially the crushed limb victims.