A South Carolina farmer cut off his own arm after it got stuck in a corn harvester, WYFF4.com reported Sunday.

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"The nightmare for Sampson Parker of Kershaw County, S.C., began when he noticed a piece of cornstalk stuck in a farm machine in September. When he tried to release the cornstalk, his hand got stuck in the machine. After about an hour of being trapped, with no response to his calls for help, Parker's arm became numb. He reached for his John Deere pocket knife and started cutting his fingers. . . . Shortly after Parker began his dramatic rescue, a fire broke out. He then did the only thing he could to save his life — sacrifice his right arm, WYFF4.com reported. With little-to-no time to spare, Parker went straight for his arm, cutting away from the bone as fast as he could. Once he severed his arm from his body, he managed to drive himself to a road where a firefighter helped him with the injury. . . . Parker said he is doing fine now and has tried to put the ordeal behind him. "It really wasn't the corn picker's fault. It was my fault. It was just a mistake I made," he said. Parker did not immediately return a telephone message Monday from The Associated Press."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312773,00.html

Somewhere, John Edwards is crying.

11/26/2007 4:37:09 PM

holy hell

11/26/2007 4:37:46 PM

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"It was just a mistake I made"

11/26/2007 4:37:49 PM

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"Somewhere, John Edwards Cary Elwes is crying."

11/26/2007 4:38:31 PM

Choke on that Bear

11/26/2007 4:40:03 PM

lollerskates

11/26/2007 4:40:29 PM

big deal. do it with a spoon and i might be impressed.

11/26/2007 4:40:50 PM

11/26/2007 4:42:07 PM

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"big deal. do it with a spoon and i might be impressed."

Happy Tree Friends?

11/26/2007 4:43:07 PM

GFD poor dude

11/26/2007 4:44:03 PM

He should get rid of the other one and get biotics like Jax

11/26/2007 4:45:18 PM

wow

thats pretty hardcore

not only did he cut his arm off, but he drove home after doing so.

11/26/2007 4:46:35 PM

or get one replacement like Will Smith

11/26/2007 4:47:02 PM

You do know that was just a character he was playing in a movie.

Will Smith doesn't really have a robotic arm.

[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 4:49 PM. Reason : .]

11/26/2007 4:48:39 PM

farmer17669

11/26/2007 4:49:03 PM

all of will smith's characters are referred to as will smith

11/26/2007 4:50:54 PM

and again!

Boy Hears Screams, Rescues Injured Farm Worker

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"Autryville — A Sampson County boy is being hailed as a hero after alerting authorities to a farming accident that critically injured a worker. Jonathan Pounder had been sent home from school for acting up in class on Nov. 5 when he heard screaming from a nearby field. "(It was) like someone was getting hurt," Jonathan said. The 12-year-old tried to convince his mother to find the source of the screams, but she and other adults dismissed him. . . . When McKee and her mother went with Jonathan in search of the source of the screams, they found a farm worker dangling from a combine. "He was hanging from his arms," Jonathan said. "It was gross." Lalo Rodriguez was knocking a pile of corn off the combine when the rollers pulled his arms into the machine. A dozen firefighters had to employ two extraction devices to free Rodriguez from the combine. He was airlifted to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, where his right arm had to be amputated at the elbow. Authorities said Jonathan's quick thinking likely saved Rodriguez's life. . . . The Faith Chapel Church of God in Roseboro is accepting donations for Rodriguez's family, since he is the only provider for his wife and three sons and Christmas is a few weeks off. People can bring donations to any of the church services or mail donations to the church at P.O. Box 1369, Roseboro, NC 28382."

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2089024/

11/27/2007 6:38:36 AM

too bad he didn't lose his leg, too

cuz then he could be like, "This tractor cost me an arm and a leg"

11/27/2007 11:26:12 AM

just came on cnn not long ago...wish i had seen the thread

11/27/2007 11:27:12 AM

When I saw a preview for this story on the news I was like "OLD, didn't this happen like 5 years ago?"

Just now I see that it was a different dude cutting off his arm.

11/27/2007 11:33:34 AM

but....

how do you cut through bone?

11/27/2007 11:36:34 AM

maybe he cut through the ligaments?

11/27/2007 11:39:23 AM

I guess that makes sense

11/27/2007 11:39:57 AM

The bone was probably broken pretty badly anyway. He was probably cutting through the tendons and marrow or whatever other nastiness is in and around the bone.

[Edited on November 27, 2007 at 11:41 AM. Reason : s]

11/27/2007 11:40:07 AM

you just have to go to the joints, you can take your arm off at the elbow in no time.

11/27/2007 11:41:08 AM

11/27/2007 11:41:53 AM

^^saw attachment.

[Edited on November 27, 2007 at 11:42 AM. Reason : too slow]

11/27/2007 11:42:22 AM

or you know snap it

11/27/2007 12:02:16 PM

ahaha, I didn't find this story disturbing at all until I read you guy's comments

then I started picturing it in my mind

11/27/2007 12:03:53 PM

I'd be willing be bet he cut it off at the elbow so he didn't have to go through any bone. I'm suprised he was so quick to cut off his arm.
I remember a while ago there was that hiker who got his arm caught under a boulder and was stuck there for a few days. He finally put a tourniquet on his upper arm, crushed the bone with a rock, cut through the flesh with his dull pocketknife and walked a couple miles until he reached a road.

11/27/2007 12:16:02 PM

pfft i've done that before

its not that big a deal

11/27/2007 12:18:25 PM

In other news:


JOHN DEERE POCKET KNIFE SALES ARE THROUGH THE ROOF!

11/27/2007 12:35:45 PM

copycat.

just wants to be like that ice climber.

11/27/2007 12:46:30 PM

^

11/27/2007 12:57:15 PM

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"I'm suprised he was so quick to cut off his arm."

At first I was too, but when you read the whole story it says the harvester caught on fire . . . so it was hack your arm off or burn to death.

11/27/2007 1:14:40 PM

how about turn the damn thing off before you try to fix shit.

11/27/2007 2:06:40 PM

^ Just got busted when I laughed out loud in class


Yea, nothing like a little fire to get you... you know... motivated.

11/27/2007 2:18:07 PM

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"It really wasn't the corn picker's fault."

11/27/2007 2:30:22 PM

Left out of the quotes in the original post....

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""My skin was melting. It was dripping off my arm like plastic, plastic melting. I realized I was in trouble," Parker told WYFF-TV. "I just told myself, 'I'm not going to die here,"' Sampson Parker said Monday on NBC's "Today Show." "I just kept fighting, kept praying. And then when I did get loose, I jumped up running, I had blood squirting from my arm," he said of the September incident. "It was pretty scary there for a while." Parker, a construction supervisor in Kershaw County about 20 miles east of Columbia, farms as a hobby. "I could feel the nerves as I was cutting my arm off," he recalled. "

11/27/2007 2:43:30 PM

umm... i'm pretty sure flesh doesn't melt. that would make cooking amusing though.

11/27/2007 2:49:52 PM

Ok, so his fingers were what was stuck because it says he began cutting at this fingers after an hour of sitting there and then he cut his arm off after the thing caught fire. What the fuck? If he's sitting there for an hour in no immediate danger (the machine had not caught fire yet) why would he decide to cut his fingers off, boredom? If only his fingers were caught you would think that he would have been able to yank them out, granted it may cause some severe damage to his hand. This guy seems like he was looking for an excuse to cut his arm off

11/27/2007 3:05:56 PM

found vid of him and a reporter


http://www.thevideospace.com/videos/24775/Farmer_Cuts_Off_Own_Arm_To_Escape_Machine.htm

[Edited on January 17, 2008 at 1:51 AM. Reason : .]

1/17/2008 1:51:26 AM