Amputation

I saw read this story today, about a man finding a leg in a human leg in a smoker that he bought in an auction. The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility. It turns out that the leg belonged to some guy that decided to keep it after it was amputated because of a plane accident.

I’ve always said that if I ever have a body part removed I am going to request that it be given back to me after it is removed. After all, it is mine. I should be entitled to it even if it is no longer connected to my body. I don’t think though that I would have forgotten about it such that it would turn up inside an item that went to auction of abandoned possessions.

I don’t know what I would have done if I found the leg. I suppose I would have called the police as well. The question would be, what I would have done with it had no one claimed it. Perhaps I would have boiled it down to the bone, polished it and kept it.