Idaho Man Cuts Off Hand, Microwaves It

Posted by Algonkin in Paranormal on January 11, 2008 at 8:08 am


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In Hayden Idaho, a man in his mid 20’s whose name was withheld, who believed he bore the “mark of the beast” amputated one of his hands with a circular saw, then cooked it in the microwave then called 911.

According to sheriff’s Capt. Ben Wolfinger the man, was calm when he arrived at his northern Idaho town. “It had been somewhat cooked by the time the deputy arrived,” Wolfinger said. “He put a tourniquet on his arm before, so he didn’t bleed to death. That kind of mental illness is just sad.”

Via: msnbc



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21 comments to "Idaho Man Cuts Off Hand, Microwaves It"

  1. sparge
    January 11th, 2008 at 8:37 am

    Drugs and “Idle Hands” don’t mix, kids.

    Actually drugs are probably the only way to make that movie watchable.

  2. Jason E.
    January 11th, 2008 at 8:46 am

    I used to work disability insurance claims, and this reminds me of one of my psych claimants. He suffered pretty badly from body dismorphia. Basically that’s a condition where you are extremely repulsed by the site of yourself… reflection in a mirror, photos… etc.

    This claimant tried to cut his hands off with a handsaw (sorry bout the pun) but after cutting his first off, he quickly realized he had no hand to cut off the second. Needless to say, we paid his claim.

  3. Tim
    January 11th, 2008 at 9:23 am

    This guy came in to the hospital last week. His hand looked like it was a hotdog until it shriveled up. I have dealt with him before and I am guessing he was on psych drugs and other things. He’s a real dirt bag.

  4. just a guy
    January 11th, 2008 at 10:08 am

    “His hand looked like it was a hotdog until it shriveled up.”

    I guess hands “plump when you cook ‘em” too!

    (Geez… I hope hotdogs don’t have any marks of the beast on them..)

  5. Mike Miller
    January 11th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    At least he microwaved his hand and not his, um, “hot dog.”

  6. Dave
    January 11th, 2008 at 10:44 am

    There was a guy on Jerry Springer a while back who cut off his own legs with a circular saw (no I don’t watch regularly; one of those fall-asleep-in-the-recliner-&-wake-to-late-nite-weirdness things). He said his legs didn’t belong there, so he cut them off. He’s also a transvestite. And very, very, very strange.

  7. badgirl
    January 11th, 2008 at 10:47 am

    Saw a similar case back in the late 1980’s up in the NC mountains.
    The guy was a known schizophrenic who was off his meds. He stepped
    into a wood shop at ASU and sawed off his hand using a circular saw,
    believing the hand “bore the mark”. He calmly placed the hand in a
    drawer and when students found him wandering around with a bloody
    stump they retrieved the hand. A microsurgeon at the local hospital re-attached it. Don’t know where beast boy ultimately ended up.

  8. Esa
    January 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am

    I’m not sure but I think there’s a finnish artist Markus Copper, who has done roughly the same thing. I think it was some sort of a performance where he cut his hand off. could be I’m wrong, but he still is missing one hand.

    he’s definitely worth looking into - very powerful works!

  9. AI_Joe
    January 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    You have to hand it to the guy, at least he called 911.

  10. Andrew
    January 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    Someone was watching too much Evil Dead.

  11. VonSkippy
    January 11th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    So is he going to cast it in resin and use it as a ear plug?

    //suck it nipple hackers - this guys hard core.

  12. biltmore
    January 11th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    @ Andrew

    “Someone was watching too much Evil Dead.”

    Hahahaha. So funny!

  13. Skipweasel
    January 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Bobbit is probably counting his lucky stars right now.

  14. Algonkin
    January 11th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    @ AI Joe

    “You have to hand it to the guy, at least he called 911″

    Which hand would that be? :)

  15. Pudifoot
    January 11th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    i prefer my mark-of-the-beast marked hands to be deep fat fried. when you microwave them, they don’t taste right.

  16. Sandman
    January 11th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    @ Pudifoot

    Don’t forget it has to be beer-battered first!

  17. Evil Pundit
    January 11th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    Cut off his own hand? That’s nothing. Watch this!

  18. Jesus
    January 12th, 2008 at 12:47 am

    Thank god, I mean me, that he killed the beast.

  19. Yak
    January 12th, 2008 at 3:08 am

    Not sad, but MAD!

  20. ted
    January 12th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    Beats cutting off your nipples. At least he had a purpose.

    And what’s with the doofus posting his “God is imaginary” link every chance he gets? Quit trying to proselytize me!

  21. Ali S.
    January 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    At least he didn’t cut anything else that is important…at least for us guys. ;)


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