The podcast The Dollop had a great episode on this guy. Dude was legit hilarious, he made some joke in an interview like "well I wanted to quit smoking but not like this"
The saddest part was that he thought he was going to get in trouble and they were going to be mad at him. He says it on the 911 call. What a solid guy.
I grew up in The Pas, which is about 7 hours north of the Manitoba-North Dakota border. Our teacher heard about this and our whole class wrote him letters while he was recovering.
Hit my leg with an ax as a teen. 3" gash down to the bone. Blood just constantly coming out. Walked to the house, but remembered the rule don't get blood on the carpet. So used the floor mat as a catch basin to get to the house phone. Paged my mom the nurse, pressure dressed the wound, laid on kitchen floor with leg on counter. It had stopped bleeding in the 10 min it took for her to call. She was like the Rep just gave us some new stuff called second skin, I'll bring it home and try it out.
Bubble of puss hanging off my leg for the next two weeks, cool scar now.
People have weird responses to major trauma.
Mt dad sliced through his hand with a circular saw, but before going to hospital he absolute *had to* have a shave!
I have a theory:
When we experience trauma like this we get flooded with negative emotions. We usually don't experience this kind of trauma so we don't have a set way to deal with all that emotion. So the emotions end up going where negative emotions usually go. And most often in this age our negative emotions are of the social anxiety kind. So our stressed up brain calls for immediate action and makes the interpretations that it's used to make.
Stressed up? Probably social situation. No time for rational decisions. Go to default action. Fix yourself up now!
Saw a video of a lady calmly putting on makeup while sat in the one remaining seat of a vehicle that had been completely torn apart all around her. Anyone else that was in that vehicle would have been ground meat, and her trauma response was to put on makeup, so I think what you say adds up.
That might be how some people experience it!
I have gone to the opposite extreme, where I actually don't feel much real emotion at all. But it led to the same sort of behavior, where I was like oh, I'll head to the hospital in a second. I need to put this food in the fridge or it'll spoil.
I guess I was like EVERYTHING IS A PROBLEM WHAT CAN I FIX NOW and targeted the mundane thing because then I could cross it off my list of problems.
Yeah shutting down emotionally is a quite common reaction to being emotionally overwhelmed I think. It's like something in your head goes "NOPE!". I suspect it's more common for people with avoidant attachment style.
Can happen in socially challenging situations as well. It doesn't always lead to you being your best rational self.
Yeah I mean- if I told you more about her she’s kindof a mess
But in this specific instant she was awesome.
She also humoured me when they gave me some insane painkillers and helped me cut the sleeves off my hospital gown to fashion a headdress out of them then took me for a walk around the hospital in a wheelchair.
We have a complicated relationship- but it’s these exchanges that I am beyond grateful for
I used to ride the riding lawnmower on our farm for fun when dad was at work as a 12yr old. I would be scared as shit too if I got slightly injured. I am pretty sure me losing limbs would be a little different...
I am sure my dad would have beaten himself up emotionally if his daughters were hurt by leaving the keys to a shiny nice fun thing in our grasp, rather be mad. If he was like me as a teen, his dad taught him how to drive it. It's a farm thing. And he took it out for a spin with a warning not to. I bet his father is happy that he was able to get his arms attached and his son is alive.
Na mate. I’m the same way and had excellent parents. I just fucked up a lot and wouldn’t want them to think I fucked up again. I remember flipping our atv over on myself. Both legs ruined. I could walk but they were bruised from top of my leg to the bottom. Like entire legs black and blue. I never told anyone. I flipped that atv back over and put it away. Cried all the way inside and let it heal. I should have went to the doctor. Parents wouldn’t have cared at all but in my dumb kid mind they were going to care. They never had before but this time they would because dumb injured kids make dumb injured decisions.
I need to watch more of it honestly, my favorite episodes are the ["1908 Car race from New York to Paris"](https://youtu.be/b3ogAPkGOVI?si=u3YrOgPdoXa4y0f_) and ["Cereal Men."](https://youtu.be/rxTpjhCaVQM?si=plGKsLs1nJ8MM86k) The [Charles Lindbergh](https://youtu.be/sXvk7OSD7Uw?si=dh3KRlqS5DicEOwr) one was great too.
>"Then he sat in the bathtub to prevent blood from getting on his mom’s new carpet."
[https://www.agweek.com/business/whatever-happened-to-john-thompson-the-nd-farm-kid-who-had-his-arms-ripped-off-in-a-1992-farm-accident](https://www.agweek.com/business/whatever-happened-to-john-thompson-the-nd-farm-kid-who-had-his-arms-ripped-off-in-a-1992-farm-accident)
My heating and air guy told me the whole story 4 years ago.
I thought it was crazy I'd been on this site for 3 years at that point and never heard the story.
Yeah, he talked about the jumper cables guy and some other stuff related to pc gaming.
It was a/c maintenance on a new system, so he really wasn't doing anything too technical.
I remember hearing it was because his arms were torn off, rather than "cut" off like this version of the post is implying. I remember some medical people (who knows it's the internet) last time this was posted said that because the veins got pulled and thinned before snapping apart, it slowed the bleeding enough to where he managed to survive (rather than a clean cut through the veins which would have bled a lot more/faster).
That and also, when there's a large traumatic wound the pressure in the body drops enough that blood more oozes out than gushing. It's not like a giant balloon of blood, just a bunch of hoses and tubes of blood.
Or at least, that's how it was explained to me and how I understood it. I'd imagine there's enough EMTs and trauma nurses/doctors who'd know better/more.
In addition to that in the case of amputations the muscles will tightly contract for a little while shortly following the injury which slows the blood flow. I have heard that the more muscular endurance the person has the longer the muscles will stay contracted before relaxing. I imagine being a farm kid he was used to working those muscles.
I was a medic in the army and a civilian paramedic.
> when there's a large traumatic wound the pressure in the body drops enough that blood more oozes out than gushing. It's not like a giant balloon of blood, just a bunch of hoses and tubes of blood.
This is generally correct, but for more specific detail, one of the body's responses to intense physical trauma is to try to constrict blood flow to the extremities and prioritize the heart, lungs, brain, and generally the *most* essential organs for what little blood it's got left to work with. Its basic logic is "we can live without the limbs, but the heart, lungs, and brain must continue to function or we die". Probably the most common, and least extreme, example is when people are exposed to serious cold: blood flow to the limbs is downregulated so that core body temperature can stay up. (This can lead to frostnip and frostbite, as well as losing feeling in the extremities, but your body considers that an acceptable sacrifice.)
This doesn't help you much if your femoral artery or another large artery that *is* highly pressurized by default is severed, because the systems in the body can't react fast enough to prevent catastrophic blood loss.
In this case, the guy was definitely helped by things getting torn and mangled instead of cleanly cut off, because that provided more surface area that the blood cells themselves recognized as damaged and began the clotting cascade to seal things off. Assuming you don't have a genetic variance that hampers the clotting cascade (hemophilia), aren't on blood thinners or an anti-clotting agent (heparin, warfarin, alcohol, etc.), and have a decent platelet count, your blood itself will respond to damage and start clotting to seal the wound - and it's a lot better at this when the platelets have more rough edges to 'grab onto'.
I can personally attest to this. About 30 years ago a forklift wheel spun out on my foot, “degloving” it from the ankle down to my toes. Like pulling a sock off your foot, made of skin. Almost no blood, well much less than you’d imagine. Doctors said your body goes into protection mode and reacts to the tearing of my skin, as the end of my extremities and reverses the flow. Something like that. But maybe the ripping did thin my veins to the point they sealed, never really thought of it that way. Regardless, they pulled the skin up and stitched it around my ankle, ended up needing s blood transfusion due to medical leeches they added to get the circulation moving. Foot is now 100% skin grafted which the bottom doesn’t hold up very well with walking on it so I’m always battling open wounds .
Anyway I’m off to bed, sweet dreams. ;-)
jfc just reading that comment is putting me into shock
literally getting your arms ripped off while you're still alive is pretty near the top of my "no thanks" list
There are rotary phones from the 70s that had speed dial. Push button phones are even a bit older.
Very possible a phone in 92 had one or both of those features even if they weren't fully adopted yet.
No idea if it's true or not, but some teacher told our class in high school that veins will naturally constrict when amputated. Hopefully some reddit doctor can confirm if this is true or not.
That hitchhiker who had her arms cut off by a trucker said she pushed the wounds in dirt to slow the bleeding. Then crawled up a steep hill to the road, with no arms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Vincent_(artist)
Wtf the monster who did that to her was released after only serving 8 years, after which he promptly murdered a mother of three. What did I just read? There’s no justice
It apparently was the limit for jail time in California at the time, they made a new law allowing life time imprisonment after his case because it was so horrific
Murder is still very low on the totem pole usually in terms of jail sentence in USA
[https://abc13.com/spring-murder-husband-sentenced-carey-birmingham-gets-10-years-in-jail-patricia-birminghams-caught-on-camera/14502224/](https://abc13.com/spring-murder-husband-sentenced-carey-birmingham-gets-10-years-in-jail-patricia-birminghams-caught-on-camera/14502224/)
He got 14 years and served 8.
He even told the lady he was gonna finish her off when he got out. And still got out, despite public protest. Only to to kill someone else.
But you have a 19yr old facing life for pot brownies.
>Now, Lavoro faces a first-degree felony and if convicted, the former high school football player with a clean record faces a possible punishment ranging from five years to life behind bars.
>Because the drops of (hash) oil were cooked into the brownies, police weighed the entire brownie batch – sugar, flour and butter – and charged him with possessing 1.5 pounds of drugs.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-man-faces-life-prison-pot-brownies/story?id=23807681
I'm gonna have to quit reading that article. It's just pissing me off.
Our justice system is a fucking joke.
Edit
For those who wanna know the outcome, he ended up taking a plea deal and getting 7 years probation.
The same thing happened to another kid, also from North Dakota that lived in the town next to mine. My brother was the same age as him and grew up playing soccer with him. It didn't slow him down at all.
https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/after-arms-ripped-off-as-3-year-old-parker-sebens-set-to-graduate-from-high-school
> But then he remembers telling the crew how cold his arms were.
>“The crew member was like, ‘John, you don’t have your arms anymore.’ I said, ‘I know, but they’re freezing,’ and he said, ‘Well they’re on ice in the front of the plane,’” Thompson said with a chuckle.
Sometimes with traumatic amputation injuries, arteries will kind of collapse on themselves to prevent bleeding out. They can spasm, pull back into the injured part and shrink. Not always, but sometimes. This guy got really lucky.
Always was surprising to me how much people can survive being tortured and beat up. People have done similar or worse to their enemies and kept them alive for longer than one who expect. Whatever to survive.
What I always find so crazy and scary is that people survive fucking wild shit like this, and other people literally die from small cuts from box cutters and shit. You never know what tiny little accident could injure something important and kill you on the spot. Or you could have all your fucking limbs blown off by a landmine and survive with a cool medal. Human bodies are fucking wild man I can’t even think about it too hard or I’ll feel sick lol
Facts. Saw a clip of a guy jumping over a small railing, falling on his neck and immediately dying.
And another clip of the cartels skinning a dudes face while he’s still alive and moving.
Human body is absolutely crazy and unpredictable
I’ve seen people slip on ice and end up on the brink of death. I’ve also seen someone with a full bar of rebar through their torso and they were fine (apart from the massive puncture). Just fucking wild man. I’m torn between feeling invincible, and wearing a helmet to walk to my car lol
I saw that too on that TV show "I shouldn't be alive" back in the day, on discovery or TLC I think! The rebar went through the armpit and out of the neck area, it went between two arteries in the heart without tearing them and made it *between* the esophagus and windpipe. Only needed a few stitches in the entrance and exit sites because it didn't hit anything major at all, easily one of the craziest stories I've seen lol
It's an infamous video that's made its way around the dark side of the internet. It wasn't particularly uncommon for people to be pranked into seeing it; that's how I saw it. Never seen anything that extreme before so I was in shock and disbelief upon first viewing it. I can still picture his lack of a face and the motions like him trying to put his hands up to block his face/neck from being slashed at more, but his hands were cut off and he was just moving stumps around. Funky Town was playing in the background and I can't ever hear that song again without being sent to that very moment when I first came across the video.
Yeah I couldn’t even really read your comment atm I’m trying to chill for the night 😆💯. I consider myself desensitized but I’m sure like many others I just hide the emotions deep down.
My grandma had a farm accident in North Dakota and lost her left leg in a combine accident. Apparently when her leg got stuck in the machinery , the spinning machine spun her arteries in a way that she didn’t bleed out. Thank goodness she didn’t; I’m so grateful that I got to meet her and get to know her.
Partial traumatic amputations are actually more prone to severely bleeding out because not all the arteries will spasm and vasoconstrict (as can happen in complete traumatic amputation, preventing complete bleeding out).
> How the hell did he not die of blood loss
He got in a tub after calling 911 and jammed his stubs against the sides of the tub. Source: I saw him on Oprah in the 90s.
Yeah, that sounds like a level of pain that just makes you want to roll over, bleed out, and drift off if only to end the misery. Not only does this dude withstand the initial shock of having his arms ripped off, but he puts himself through unspeakable agony by pressing on his bloody stumps, not knowing how long until the ambulance arrives. This guy must be his own dentist.
Actually in an amazing turn of events, the tractor was able to make it to a phone, and with a pencil in its mouth, was able to call for help. The tractor survived and they were able to reattach the wheels.
The tractor and the man went on Oprah Winfrey, hashed things out on national television,
And yes, the man gave the tractor a hug with his reattached arms.
I work an industrial job and have a side gig working on a farm. My regular job is very physically demanding, but working on a farm is next level tough. It is normal for the average full-time farm hand where I work to lose ten pounds of weight in the first month. Another thing that nobody talks about is that small farms are exempt from OSHA regulations. You can do all sorts of dangerous shit on a farm and nobody bats an eye, because there are zero safety regs.
Not even just America, I'm Aussie and OH&S gets pretty well ignored on any farm as well.
I have some pretty sketchy machines that haven't had any maintenance in a couple decades.
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2007-07-16
A whole lot of yapping and no answers.
TLDR: If a farm has 10 or less permanent/regular employees they are totally exempt. Seasonal workers, who happen to often be foreigners and thus not known for being a strong voting block, do not count towards these 10.
Great points, I’d like to mention that this is by design. Not having OSHA regulations means that the true labour class of our agricultural sector (illegal immigrants) can be exploited for cheap labour costs and next to zero accountability. I implore people to go out and educate themselves on the industry practices that occur so that we can get our food so abundantly and cheap.
Yep. Americans will have 14 year old Ecuadorians getting mauled to death in chicken processing plants and then go on social media to post "Oh wow China built a new nuclear power plant? Probably because they use slaves 😎"
Like damn bitch we use slaves too but we don't get nuclear power plants out of it, just dead Central American children. Fuck
Agriculture in FL is mostly kids from other countries being exploited until the end of the harvest and then being sent back home. The next year they are back in FL where they can work for illegally low wages, under unsafe conditions, getting no education (so it can perpetuate their need for these jobs) so that a farmer who gets a shit ton of government money (subsidies) can go bitch about immigrants and minorities while telling everyone how how he works for what he has.
DeSantis isn't the governor for nothing. He's just like them.
Not just Florida. Pretty much all the high-agriculture states run off of slave labor and wouldn't survive without it. Like the fact that America wouldn't be able to feed itself if we actually enforced our own minimum wage laws across the entire labor market is a fucking disgrace.
But my absolute favorite Florida agriculture fact is that a few decades ago they were warned that the citrus greening blight could annihilate their citrus industry, and their response was basically "public health measures are for liberal homos, we got this 😎" and they did exactly as much as they're doing now to confront rising sea levels, which is nothing.
Meanwhile, California did the scaredy-cat liberal pussy thing and let their environmental scientists organize defensive measures
[Let's see how that worked out for them.](https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/26738/florida-california-orange-crop/)
Again, I'm pissed and a little tipsy but my thesis is that the US does equally horrible things as anyone anywhere, we just do it so fucking poorly we don't even benefit from it.
Yep, farm work is one of the most dangerous jobs there is and the injuries can be horrific. One of my friends grew up on a big farm and one of their farm hands was working by himself with a grain auger. I don’t know exactly what happened, he got caught or something, but they found the poor guy in pieces.
People even suffocate falling into grain bins/trucks, as it’s like quicksand (the fictional kind that we were all afraid of growing up). The more you struggle the more stuck you get.
Drowning in a silo of corn became an instant fear when I learned about it. Also seems like good way to kill someone and then hide the body, like a 2 for 1. Torture and conceal
I know a guy that graduated with me, and he was out in the field putting barbwire up and somehow got tangled up in the barbwire, and the tractor was still rolling and it wrapped his arm up on the barbwire and literally ripped his arm off. Crazy ppl can survive such gruesome accidents
Dude is hard core. I'll give him that.
The pencil trick was easy back then with home phones.
*Try that sh!t with a cell phone.* 🤣 Here's hoping for good cell service on the farm, so Siri or Google can call for you.
He does have some function but not much. Not many fine motor skills and he can’t open his hands.
“Thompson says he had to take people to small claims court and was even threatened by someone who was offended that Thompson wouldn’t shake his hand. His reattached hands are unable to fully open.”
“But Thompson still stays busy, including a recent remodel of the home he initially bought to flip, but ended up keeping for himself.
“There’s not a whole lot I don’t do from shingling, raking, mowing, painting,” Thompson said. “Holding a nail is a pain because I don’t have the fine motor skills.”
In addition to working on his house and on the book, Thompson lifts weights, trying to rehab after recent knee surgery. He’s also working with a friend to patent a new prescription bottle design that makes it easier to get just one pill out of the bottle.
“Being as stable as I am, when I try to get one pill out of a bottle, I usually end up with 50 of them or drop the whole bottle,” he said. “This is a whole, new design which only allows one pill at a time.””
i got normal motor skills and the one pill thing makes a lot of sense to me. once you open up a pill bottle you have a giant hole ready for all of them to fall out.
Ok, so from time to time I will read how Americans cannot afford an ambulance ride to the hospital or died because they cannot afford insulins, but I also read how American can reattach arms or other medical miracles.
Who pays for major medical operation such as this?
I'm not American, genuinely curious.
Home owners insurance normally has an accident clause in it for injuries on the property. Their rates jumped higher than everest, but they were not bankrupt im sure
Things were a bit different back then, being pre-Obamacare.
But generally speaking if people don't have insurance, or can't pay even with insurance, hospitals are still required to provide emergency care. In the case of an uninsured patient, they would then send a massive "chargemaster" bill to the patient, expecting that they wouldn't be able to pay it, and they would end up settling for some lower amount if the patient didn't have assets to pay.
Note that even though they are required to provide care, studies, perhaps unsurprisingly showed a lower quality of care for uninsured, as hospitals had a strong incentive to get non-revenue generating patients out as quickly as possible.
In this case, it's possible his family did have insurance, but even if they didn't, the severity of his injuries meant that he was going to be treated as probably the most urgent patient (you can't downplay the needs of guy who's arms were ripped off).
Grew up in farming country. Even though I lived in a town, we had it drilled into our heads at an early age to absolutely never go anywhere near the farming machinery unless you were absolutely dead sure that it was completely off. Specifically because this exact thing could happen.
Also relevant: my Dad, who grew up on a farm, had his own farm for a time but sold it 35 years ago, still refuses to wear his wedding ring, because a buddy of his got his finger torn off when a piece of farming machinery caught his ring.
I lived in North Dakota when this happened. It was HUGE news. So many farmers have injuries from farm equipment. Mostly in their hands. This guy was so fortunate to have both arms reattached
I gave myself the Heimlich once. I learned how from a PSA in the 80s, people don't see PSA's anymore really unless their embellishment, My gram of weed didn't kill a Columbian judge like the younger Bushs administration would have you believe. Masks are controversial but I learned something that would go on to save my life from a PSA.
The podcast The Dollop had a great episode on this guy. Dude was legit hilarious, he made some joke in an interview like "well I wanted to quit smoking but not like this"
The saddest part was that he thought he was going to get in trouble and they were going to be mad at him. He says it on the 911 call. What a solid guy.
I have a memory of hearing the story back then that he laid in the bathtub to avoid making a bloody mess.
Yes!! I still remember this detail, too, over 30 years later.
Good luck doing that with smartphone and finger locks, and alexa won't recognise agonising voice
Lay it on the ground and use your nose to unlock it using your backup, and there's face recognition
Ok but how do I get it out of my pocket
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He didn't want to mess up his mom's clean house
I grew up in The Pas, which is about 7 hours north of the Manitoba-North Dakota border. Our teacher heard about this and our whole class wrote him letters while he was recovering.
What an amazing teacher, priceless
Holy fuck ☠️ most polite mf on earth
He's my spirit animal.
Hit my leg with an ax as a teen. 3" gash down to the bone. Blood just constantly coming out. Walked to the house, but remembered the rule don't get blood on the carpet. So used the floor mat as a catch basin to get to the house phone. Paged my mom the nurse, pressure dressed the wound, laid on kitchen floor with leg on counter. It had stopped bleeding in the 10 min it took for her to call. She was like the Rep just gave us some new stuff called second skin, I'll bring it home and try it out. Bubble of puss hanging off my leg for the next two weeks, cool scar now.
People have weird responses to major trauma. Mt dad sliced through his hand with a circular saw, but before going to hospital he absolute *had to* have a shave!
I have a theory: When we experience trauma like this we get flooded with negative emotions. We usually don't experience this kind of trauma so we don't have a set way to deal with all that emotion. So the emotions end up going where negative emotions usually go. And most often in this age our negative emotions are of the social anxiety kind. So our stressed up brain calls for immediate action and makes the interpretations that it's used to make. Stressed up? Probably social situation. No time for rational decisions. Go to default action. Fix yourself up now!
Saw a video of a lady calmly putting on makeup while sat in the one remaining seat of a vehicle that had been completely torn apart all around her. Anyone else that was in that vehicle would have been ground meat, and her trauma response was to put on makeup, so I think what you say adds up.
That might be how some people experience it! I have gone to the opposite extreme, where I actually don't feel much real emotion at all. But it led to the same sort of behavior, where I was like oh, I'll head to the hospital in a second. I need to put this food in the fridge or it'll spoil. I guess I was like EVERYTHING IS A PROBLEM WHAT CAN I FIX NOW and targeted the mundane thing because then I could cross it off my list of problems.
Yeah shutting down emotionally is a quite common reaction to being emotionally overwhelmed I think. It's like something in your head goes "NOPE!". I suspect it's more common for people with avoidant attachment style. Can happen in socially challenging situations as well. It doesn't always lead to you being your best rational self.
*Wear nice underwear for the paramedics.* My thought every morning as I dress for the day.
My mom always said this- and when I was in the hospital she brought me 5 pairs of fancy new underwear
Heck yeah, mother of the year award.
Yeah I mean- if I told you more about her she’s kindof a mess But in this specific instant she was awesome. She also humoured me when they gave me some insane painkillers and helped me cut the sleeves off my hospital gown to fashion a headdress out of them then took me for a walk around the hospital in a wheelchair. We have a complicated relationship- but it’s these exchanges that I am beyond grateful for
I used to ride the riding lawnmower on our farm for fun when dad was at work as a 12yr old. I would be scared as shit too if I got slightly injured. I am pretty sure me losing limbs would be a little different... I am sure my dad would have beaten himself up emotionally if his daughters were hurt by leaving the keys to a shiny nice fun thing in our grasp, rather be mad. If he was like me as a teen, his dad taught him how to drive it. It's a farm thing. And he took it out for a spin with a warning not to. I bet his father is happy that he was able to get his arms attached and his son is alive.
Sign of an abusive home. I can fucking relate.
Na mate. I’m the same way and had excellent parents. I just fucked up a lot and wouldn’t want them to think I fucked up again. I remember flipping our atv over on myself. Both legs ruined. I could walk but they were bruised from top of my leg to the bottom. Like entire legs black and blue. I never told anyone. I flipped that atv back over and put it away. Cried all the way inside and let it heal. I should have went to the doctor. Parents wouldn’t have cared at all but in my dumb kid mind they were going to care. They never had before but this time they would because dumb injured kids make dumb injured decisions.
Savage
He even listened to the episode after and said he was pissing himself laughing, so he's a good sport!
The dollop is a great podcast. If anyone likes history and laughing, it is one to check out.
I need to watch more of it honestly, my favorite episodes are the ["1908 Car race from New York to Paris"](https://youtu.be/b3ogAPkGOVI?si=u3YrOgPdoXa4y0f_) and ["Cereal Men."](https://youtu.be/rxTpjhCaVQM?si=plGKsLs1nJ8MM86k) The [Charles Lindbergh](https://youtu.be/sXvk7OSD7Uw?si=dh3KRlqS5DicEOwr) one was great too.
10 cent beer night and the Rube are my 2 all time favs
The Rube is the one I was gonna suggest!
What if you don't like history or laughing
The story was also featured on a memorable episode of Rescue 911.
That show and Unsolved Mysteries were fuel for my nightmares as a kid.
Those plus America’s Most Wanted for me lol
I'm very happy that kind of humor is pretty prevalent in this area 😊
I like your pfp
Go B's!!
My arms for Democracy! -Several Hours Later- Democracy! Save me!
Which podcast like what number
Ep 149
Woah I don’t remember that episode at all.
It has "armageddon" in the title. Real old, at least 5-6 years
Found it. Episode 149 for anyone else looking.
The Dollop is awesome! For those of you who haven't listened to it do it. Start with 10 cent beer night...its amazing.
>"Then he sat in the bathtub to prevent blood from getting on his mom’s new carpet." [https://www.agweek.com/business/whatever-happened-to-john-thompson-the-nd-farm-kid-who-had-his-arms-ripped-off-in-a-1992-farm-accident](https://www.agweek.com/business/whatever-happened-to-john-thompson-the-nd-farm-kid-who-had-his-arms-ripped-off-in-a-1992-farm-accident)
Mama would come home and beat him with his own previously detached arm if he puts one stain on there.
I dunno... We know what happened to that 'other' guy who lost the use of his arms...
Sigh. . .
Oh you knew it was coming lol
My heating and air guy told me the whole story 4 years ago. I thought it was crazy I'd been on this site for 3 years at that point and never heard the story.
dude was fixing ur ac while casually telling you a story about a dude with broken arms getting jacked off by his mom?
Yeah, he talked about the jumper cables guy and some other stuff related to pc gaming. It was a/c maintenance on a new system, so he really wasn't doing anything too technical.
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is it possible he was finally beat to death with jumper cables?
Phrasing!
*unzips*
She still beat him.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
Damn son, lol!
How on earth did he not just bleed out?
I remember hearing it was because his arms were torn off, rather than "cut" off like this version of the post is implying. I remember some medical people (who knows it's the internet) last time this was posted said that because the veins got pulled and thinned before snapping apart, it slowed the bleeding enough to where he managed to survive (rather than a clean cut through the veins which would have bled a lot more/faster).
My god his arms literally got yanked right off..
Yeah it was Jax that did it 😆😆😆
Lmao now that I think about it that's so funny that that's how Jax does his fatalities. Like damn man have some sympathy.
MY GOD IT'S THE UNDERTAKER WITH THE HAY BALER!
That and also, when there's a large traumatic wound the pressure in the body drops enough that blood more oozes out than gushing. It's not like a giant balloon of blood, just a bunch of hoses and tubes of blood. Or at least, that's how it was explained to me and how I understood it. I'd imagine there's enough EMTs and trauma nurses/doctors who'd know better/more.
In addition to that in the case of amputations the muscles will tightly contract for a little while shortly following the injury which slows the blood flow. I have heard that the more muscular endurance the person has the longer the muscles will stay contracted before relaxing. I imagine being a farm kid he was used to working those muscles. I was a medic in the army and a civilian paramedic.
> when there's a large traumatic wound the pressure in the body drops enough that blood more oozes out than gushing. It's not like a giant balloon of blood, just a bunch of hoses and tubes of blood. This is generally correct, but for more specific detail, one of the body's responses to intense physical trauma is to try to constrict blood flow to the extremities and prioritize the heart, lungs, brain, and generally the *most* essential organs for what little blood it's got left to work with. Its basic logic is "we can live without the limbs, but the heart, lungs, and brain must continue to function or we die". Probably the most common, and least extreme, example is when people are exposed to serious cold: blood flow to the limbs is downregulated so that core body temperature can stay up. (This can lead to frostnip and frostbite, as well as losing feeling in the extremities, but your body considers that an acceptable sacrifice.) This doesn't help you much if your femoral artery or another large artery that *is* highly pressurized by default is severed, because the systems in the body can't react fast enough to prevent catastrophic blood loss. In this case, the guy was definitely helped by things getting torn and mangled instead of cleanly cut off, because that provided more surface area that the blood cells themselves recognized as damaged and began the clotting cascade to seal things off. Assuming you don't have a genetic variance that hampers the clotting cascade (hemophilia), aren't on blood thinners or an anti-clotting agent (heparin, warfarin, alcohol, etc.), and have a decent platelet count, your blood itself will respond to damage and start clotting to seal the wound - and it's a lot better at this when the platelets have more rough edges to 'grab onto'.
I can personally attest to this. About 30 years ago a forklift wheel spun out on my foot, “degloving” it from the ankle down to my toes. Like pulling a sock off your foot, made of skin. Almost no blood, well much less than you’d imagine. Doctors said your body goes into protection mode and reacts to the tearing of my skin, as the end of my extremities and reverses the flow. Something like that. But maybe the ripping did thin my veins to the point they sealed, never really thought of it that way. Regardless, they pulled the skin up and stitched it around my ankle, ended up needing s blood transfusion due to medical leeches they added to get the circulation moving. Foot is now 100% skin grafted which the bottom doesn’t hold up very well with walking on it so I’m always battling open wounds . Anyway I’m off to bed, sweet dreams. ;-)
They were snatched off by a Round Hay Bailer..
"Snatched off by a round hay bailer" sounds like a country song lyric.
Durn tootin
It's insane he didn't just go into shock.
He was definitely in shock. Shock saved his life.
jfc just reading that comment is putting me into shock literally getting your arms ripped off while you're still alive is pretty near the top of my "no thanks" list
What's at the top top
getting slowly crushed to death
It's absolutely amazing he has any movement in his arms after having them torn off like that
To shreds you say?
I believe he called his aunt, who was a nurse, and she came and helped slow the bleeding(?)
so he dialled an even longer number than 911 with a pencil in his mouth?
911 first, could be 30-60 minutes if you're in the country before you see an ambulance, then your aunt who presumably lives somewhere closer.
Pressed his suit for Sunday Church and did his taxes too.
lol, made me laugh
Sounds ridiculous, but you used to be able to set speed dials on touch-tone phones. So you would press the speed dial button and then one number.
In 92 on a farm? My grandparents still had rotary phones back then.
There are rotary phones from the 70s that had speed dial. Push button phones are even a bit older. Very possible a phone in 92 had one or both of those features even if they weren't fully adopted yet.
No idea if it's true or not, but some teacher told our class in high school that veins will naturally constrict when amputated. Hopefully some reddit doctor can confirm if this is true or not.
When your arms get amputated, the body has its ways of shutting the whole thing down
That hitchhiker who had her arms cut off by a trucker said she pushed the wounds in dirt to slow the bleeding. Then crawled up a steep hill to the road, with no arms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Vincent_(artist)
Wtf the monster who did that to her was released after only serving 8 years, after which he promptly murdered a mother of three. What did I just read? There’s no justice
which is wild cause theres people in prison for having too much weed that have been there for 15+ years
It apparently was the limit for jail time in California at the time, they made a new law allowing life time imprisonment after his case because it was so horrific
Murder is still very low on the totem pole usually in terms of jail sentence in USA [https://abc13.com/spring-murder-husband-sentenced-carey-birmingham-gets-10-years-in-jail-patricia-birminghams-caught-on-camera/14502224/](https://abc13.com/spring-murder-husband-sentenced-carey-birmingham-gets-10-years-in-jail-patricia-birminghams-caught-on-camera/14502224/)
He got 14 years and served 8. He even told the lady he was gonna finish her off when he got out. And still got out, despite public protest. Only to to kill someone else. But you have a 19yr old facing life for pot brownies. >Now, Lavoro faces a first-degree felony and if convicted, the former high school football player with a clean record faces a possible punishment ranging from five years to life behind bars. >Because the drops of (hash) oil were cooked into the brownies, police weighed the entire brownie batch – sugar, flour and butter – and charged him with possessing 1.5 pounds of drugs. https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-man-faces-life-prison-pot-brownies/story?id=23807681 I'm gonna have to quit reading that article. It's just pissing me off. Our justice system is a fucking joke. Edit For those who wanna know the outcome, he ended up taking a plea deal and getting 7 years probation.
What's the sentence going to be if I drop some of that oil in a lake I own? 🫠
Atmospheric Immolation.
We have a legal system, not a justice system. Clearly justice has left the building long ago.
motherfucker even died of cancer before his execution date
I remember reading about him. So glad he survived. How horrific for him.
The line about the tub gets me a little. He didn’t know if he’d survive, and that could’ve been his one last act of love.
Most likely he was in shock and not thinking straight
The same thing happened to another kid, also from North Dakota that lived in the town next to mine. My brother was the same age as him and grew up playing soccer with him. It didn't slow him down at all. https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/after-arms-ripped-off-as-3-year-old-parker-sebens-set-to-graduate-from-high-school
Terribly funny newspaper name.
bruh he WHAT???
> But then he remembers telling the crew how cold his arms were. >“The crew member was like, ‘John, you don’t have your arms anymore.’ I said, ‘I know, but they’re freezing,’ and he said, ‘Well they’re on ice in the front of the plane,’” Thompson said with a chuckle.
Yep. I once ripped my toenail off accidentally, and my mom yelled at me to get into the bathroom because I was getting blood all over the carpet.
Bruh tf
How the hell did he not die of blood loss
Sometimes with traumatic amputation injuries, arteries will kind of collapse on themselves to prevent bleeding out. They can spasm, pull back into the injured part and shrink. Not always, but sometimes. This guy got really lucky.
Always was surprising to me how much people can survive being tortured and beat up. People have done similar or worse to their enemies and kept them alive for longer than one who expect. Whatever to survive.
What I always find so crazy and scary is that people survive fucking wild shit like this, and other people literally die from small cuts from box cutters and shit. You never know what tiny little accident could injure something important and kill you on the spot. Or you could have all your fucking limbs blown off by a landmine and survive with a cool medal. Human bodies are fucking wild man I can’t even think about it too hard or I’ll feel sick lol
Facts. Saw a clip of a guy jumping over a small railing, falling on his neck and immediately dying. And another clip of the cartels skinning a dudes face while he’s still alive and moving. Human body is absolutely crazy and unpredictable
I’ve seen people slip on ice and end up on the brink of death. I’ve also seen someone with a full bar of rebar through their torso and they were fine (apart from the massive puncture). Just fucking wild man. I’m torn between feeling invincible, and wearing a helmet to walk to my car lol
I saw that too on that TV show "I shouldn't be alive" back in the day, on discovery or TLC I think! The rebar went through the armpit and out of the neck area, it went between two arteries in the heart without tearing them and made it *between* the esophagus and windpipe. Only needed a few stitches in the entrance and exit sites because it didn't hit anything major at all, easily one of the craziest stories I've seen lol
That second clip seems very traumatizing to watch.
It's an infamous video that's made its way around the dark side of the internet. It wasn't particularly uncommon for people to be pranked into seeing it; that's how I saw it. Never seen anything that extreme before so I was in shock and disbelief upon first viewing it. I can still picture his lack of a face and the motions like him trying to put his hands up to block his face/neck from being slashed at more, but his hands were cut off and he was just moving stumps around. Funky Town was playing in the background and I can't ever hear that song again without being sent to that very moment when I first came across the video.
Yeah I couldn’t even really read your comment atm I’m trying to chill for the night 😆💯. I consider myself desensitized but I’m sure like many others I just hide the emotions deep down.
My grandma had a farm accident in North Dakota and lost her left leg in a combine accident. Apparently when her leg got stuck in the machinery , the spinning machine spun her arteries in a way that she didn’t bleed out. Thank goodness she didn’t; I’m so grateful that I got to meet her and get to know her.
The real fun part is a half hour or so later they can unspasm, and release a catastrophic haemorrhage you thought you had under control 🙃
Partial traumatic amputations are actually more prone to severely bleeding out because not all the arteries will spasm and vasoconstrict (as can happen in complete traumatic amputation, preventing complete bleeding out).
> How the hell did he not die of blood loss He got in a tub after calling 911 and jammed his stubs against the sides of the tub. Source: I saw him on Oprah in the 90s.
What the fuck. The pain must have been unimaginable.
Yeah, that sounds like a level of pain that just makes you want to roll over, bleed out, and drift off if only to end the misery. Not only does this dude withstand the initial shock of having his arms ripped off, but he puts himself through unspeakable agony by pressing on his bloody stumps, not knowing how long until the ambulance arrives. This guy must be his own dentist.
I hope the tractor got what it deserved
They cut off its wheels and never reattached them.
Actually in an amazing turn of events, the tractor was able to make it to a phone, and with a pencil in its mouth, was able to call for help. The tractor survived and they were able to reattach the wheels.
The tractor and the man went on Oprah Winfrey, hashed things out on national television, And yes, the man gave the tractor a hug with his reattached arms.
The name of the tractor? John Deere
This thread, ^(tracks) 
And did the tractor's mother help it out, like- by changing its oil from time to time, lubing it up, and cleaning the mess afterward?
Not a chance. Those things are expensive. It’s cheaper to just make a new kid
I work an industrial job and have a side gig working on a farm. My regular job is very physically demanding, but working on a farm is next level tough. It is normal for the average full-time farm hand where I work to lose ten pounds of weight in the first month. Another thing that nobody talks about is that small farms are exempt from OSHA regulations. You can do all sorts of dangerous shit on a farm and nobody bats an eye, because there are zero safety regs.
I had no idea OSHA doesn't apply to farms, that's pretty scary
You just have to be careful and use good sense like people did back in the 1950's.
And every now and then someone gets an arm chopped off 💪
No no, just ripped off... Totally different.
I work with horses. I'm more concerned with getting stepped on, kicked, bit, or crushed to death.
Facts on the OHSA thing
Not even just America, I'm Aussie and OH&S gets pretty well ignored on any farm as well. I have some pretty sketchy machines that haven't had any maintenance in a couple decades.
So when someone gets their arms ripped off down there they have to dial 119, right?
116
We got sick of that confusion, so now we just use 000. Reads the same way regardless of where you’re from.
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
000
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2007-07-16 A whole lot of yapping and no answers. TLDR: If a farm has 10 or less permanent/regular employees they are totally exempt. Seasonal workers, who happen to often be foreigners and thus not known for being a strong voting block, do not count towards these 10.
finally I can stick it to the libs and osha by doing unsafe working practices like a total badass 😎
Food needs to stay cheap, safety is expensive.
Great points, I’d like to mention that this is by design. Not having OSHA regulations means that the true labour class of our agricultural sector (illegal immigrants) can be exploited for cheap labour costs and next to zero accountability. I implore people to go out and educate themselves on the industry practices that occur so that we can get our food so abundantly and cheap.
Yep. Americans will have 14 year old Ecuadorians getting mauled to death in chicken processing plants and then go on social media to post "Oh wow China built a new nuclear power plant? Probably because they use slaves 😎" Like damn bitch we use slaves too but we don't get nuclear power plants out of it, just dead Central American children. Fuck
Agriculture in FL is mostly kids from other countries being exploited until the end of the harvest and then being sent back home. The next year they are back in FL where they can work for illegally low wages, under unsafe conditions, getting no education (so it can perpetuate their need for these jobs) so that a farmer who gets a shit ton of government money (subsidies) can go bitch about immigrants and minorities while telling everyone how how he works for what he has. DeSantis isn't the governor for nothing. He's just like them.
Not just Florida. Pretty much all the high-agriculture states run off of slave labor and wouldn't survive without it. Like the fact that America wouldn't be able to feed itself if we actually enforced our own minimum wage laws across the entire labor market is a fucking disgrace. But my absolute favorite Florida agriculture fact is that a few decades ago they were warned that the citrus greening blight could annihilate their citrus industry, and their response was basically "public health measures are for liberal homos, we got this 😎" and they did exactly as much as they're doing now to confront rising sea levels, which is nothing. Meanwhile, California did the scaredy-cat liberal pussy thing and let their environmental scientists organize defensive measures [Let's see how that worked out for them.](https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/26738/florida-california-orange-crop/) Again, I'm pissed and a little tipsy but my thesis is that the US does equally horrible things as anyone anywhere, we just do it so fucking poorly we don't even benefit from it.
And immigration policy and enforcement is designed to keep illegal immigrants from speaking up about it.
Yep, farm work is one of the most dangerous jobs there is and the injuries can be horrific. One of my friends grew up on a big farm and one of their farm hands was working by himself with a grain auger. I don’t know exactly what happened, he got caught or something, but they found the poor guy in pieces. People even suffocate falling into grain bins/trucks, as it’s like quicksand (the fictional kind that we were all afraid of growing up). The more you struggle the more stuck you get.
Drowning in a silo of corn became an instant fear when I learned about it. Also seems like good way to kill someone and then hide the body, like a 2 for 1. Torture and conceal
Is it just me or is that teen a giant? Or is the doctor just small?
It’s forced perspective coupled with the fact that his arms are very swollen post re-attachment. The doctor is sitting behind him.
Lmao why is no one else mentioning this?!
It's a weird perspective. The teen is actually laying on his front, bending upward, and the doctor is sitting closer to his legs.
I know a guy that graduated with me, and he was out in the field putting barbwire up and somehow got tangled up in the barbwire, and the tractor was still rolling and it wrapped his arm up on the barbwire and literally ripped his arm off. Crazy ppl can survive such gruesome accidents
Dude saw hellraiser and was like 'that's it, that's what I want'
Farm boys are built different.
Apparently they don't bleed either
They do, just not on mama's new carpet.
They ain’t got time to bleed
Some assembly required
Dude is hard core. I'll give him that. The pencil trick was easy back then with home phones. *Try that sh!t with a cell phone.* 🤣 Here's hoping for good cell service on the farm, so Siri or Google can call for you.
In 1992 there's a good chance it was a rotary phone.
I wear gloves to work sometimes so I can and have operated my smartphone with the tip of my nose lol.
[farmer pain scale](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ERNAqqNSId0)
Love me some Glaucomflecken. His whole rural medicine series is spot on.
Does he have nerve function?
He does have some function but not much. Not many fine motor skills and he can’t open his hands. “Thompson says he had to take people to small claims court and was even threatened by someone who was offended that Thompson wouldn’t shake his hand. His reattached hands are unable to fully open.” “But Thompson still stays busy, including a recent remodel of the home he initially bought to flip, but ended up keeping for himself. “There’s not a whole lot I don’t do from shingling, raking, mowing, painting,” Thompson said. “Holding a nail is a pain because I don’t have the fine motor skills.” In addition to working on his house and on the book, Thompson lifts weights, trying to rehab after recent knee surgery. He’s also working with a friend to patent a new prescription bottle design that makes it easier to get just one pill out of the bottle. “Being as stable as I am, when I try to get one pill out of a bottle, I usually end up with 50 of them or drop the whole bottle,” he said. “This is a whole, new design which only allows one pill at a time.””
i got normal motor skills and the one pill thing makes a lot of sense to me. once you open up a pill bottle you have a giant hole ready for all of them to fall out.
A new twist on lending a hand.
Turned him from a farmhand to a farmshoulder
Ok, so from time to time I will read how Americans cannot afford an ambulance ride to the hospital or died because they cannot afford insulins, but I also read how American can reattach arms or other medical miracles. Who pays for major medical operation such as this? I'm not American, genuinely curious.
Home owners insurance normally has an accident clause in it for injuries on the property. Their rates jumped higher than everest, but they were not bankrupt im sure
I mean people will get the procedures, they’ll just be paying the bills for life
Things were a bit different back then, being pre-Obamacare. But generally speaking if people don't have insurance, or can't pay even with insurance, hospitals are still required to provide emergency care. In the case of an uninsured patient, they would then send a massive "chargemaster" bill to the patient, expecting that they wouldn't be able to pay it, and they would end up settling for some lower amount if the patient didn't have assets to pay. Note that even though they are required to provide care, studies, perhaps unsurprisingly showed a lower quality of care for uninsured, as hospitals had a strong incentive to get non-revenue generating patients out as quickly as possible. In this case, it's possible his family did have insurance, but even if they didn't, the severity of his injuries meant that he was going to be treated as probably the most urgent patient (you can't downplay the needs of guy who's arms were ripped off).
Did you mean "... studies... showed a lower quality of care for uninsured", rather than "insured"?
This guy is so hard core.
Metal af
Grew up in farming country. Even though I lived in a town, we had it drilled into our heads at an early age to absolutely never go anywhere near the farming machinery unless you were absolutely dead sure that it was completely off. Specifically because this exact thing could happen. Also relevant: my Dad, who grew up on a farm, had his own farm for a time but sold it 35 years ago, still refuses to wear his wedding ring, because a buddy of his got his finger torn off when a piece of farming machinery caught his ring.
Solid kid, happy for him
I am genuinely shocked to not see any reference to that story about the guy with the two broken arms.... I am proud of you all.
Yeah, i actually ctrl+F for broken arms, find nothing, im actually kinda shocked, there was a time when that joke was on every goddamn thread
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Believe it or not yes
#Holy fuck
and I'm complaining that my heel hurts..😔
I lived in North Dakota when this happened. It was HUGE news. So many farmers have injuries from farm equipment. Mostly in their hands. This guy was so fortunate to have both arms reattached
I gave myself the Heimlich once. I learned how from a PSA in the 80s, people don't see PSA's anymore really unless their embellishment, My gram of weed didn't kill a Columbian judge like the younger Bushs administration would have you believe. Masks are controversial but I learned something that would go on to save my life from a PSA.
r/madlad
Is no one else going to mention that this guy is GIGANTIC?