Japanese rider gets knee down - and off

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22242930-5005962,00.html



A JAPANESE biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee
when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for 2km, leaving a friend to pick
up the 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, yesterday, 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 hospital, but the limb had been crushed in
the collision, the paper said.


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he was on a fast lap of their road track... he missed his record by 1
limb.

 

Barry he deserved it mate (lushy from Rye)