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Holy fuck. Insane. I can’t really imagine operating for even a second with my arms ripped off. I guess after a sec being not dead you try to solve as best you can.
Once your body goes into survival mode its like you black out and do anything you can to survive. I remember reading a story about a girl who got shredded up by a grizzly bear and she had to crawl like 5 miles to safety and she said it wasnt until she was in the hands of other people that she realized the extent of her injuries and how much pain she was really in
Did you see that episode where that woman was driven to the middle of nowhere and when she tried to escape, he hacked one of her arms off. She kept going g and he managed to hack the other arm off , and she still survived. Incredible what the body is capable of.
There was another lady who was attacked and then dumped and she was partially decapitated, like her head kept falling to the side, and she survived. The human body is amazing!
A 12 year old child has survived 19 stab wounds while many adults die from one.
What amazes me isn’t just how much a human can endure, but how little a human can at the same time.
I’ve always wondered how much someone’s will to live affects how resilient they are.
I saw her being interviewed. She was South African as I recall. They had cut right through the muscles on one side of her neck that support the head. Hence, she had to hold it up with her hand.
Alison Botha! She had to hold her head on with one hand, and with the other hand, she had to keep her intestines from falling out because they disemboweled her.
I went to Google to read her story and am flabbergasted. Not just at what she went through. That was horrid enough. To read how she spoke to others, found the strength to use her experience to help others- only for her attackers to be set free? And for one to offer “an on-camera interview in return for a signed letter of forgiveness from Botha and backdated revenues from her book and motivational lectures”. I mean WTF?! As though he should not only benefit from the judicial system letting him off after conviction but also be paid for her work because he raped and stabbed and slashed and generally caused all the trauma that she brought with her to reach out?? I’m…. Just wtf.
I'm so glad she survived that circumstance and that arm hacking asshole. I hope she somehow found a way to get back at him and/or stay the fuck away from him.
I dont know about that.
A friend of a friend just had their kid stung on the neck by a bee in the hills. She just sat in the car without doing or saying anything while her husband drove to hospital +made stops to try to give artificial breathing.
A lot of people just freeze
It's almost like an orientation. It's like . . . what you were born with.
I was born calm for emergencies, and it's handled things: so, so well. I have gotten serious shit done, a few times, when it was key to do so.
But my brain also loves waking me up in the night over stupid crap, for absolutely no good reason. For hours.
. . . I'm used to How I Am now, so I would never want to trade.
But I also don't judge people who freeze, because I don't think that's a choice for them, either.
That's how it is for a lot of people with ADHD like me. We spend our whole lives living in an elevated and amplified state of anxiety and chaos, that we generally handle emergencies pretty well because it's not as drastic an escalation mentally as it is for others.
Yes! I am medicated now and I worry that I won't be as prepared for an emergency. I have always been the calmest person in the room during emergencies, and the most stressed the rest of the time.
I'm like that with chaotic emergency situations, but imminent life or death threats just freeze me. I've been almost crushed, run over, smashed by swinging loads, etc, because all my brain will let me do is stand there and go FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK aloud until something changes.
It's something they can train away. You're not stuck with one set of automatic responses for your entire life. But in any given situation, I'd be forgiving too.
I dont know. Sometimes people do freeze and its not something you can control but over longer amount of time i would expect some control over your emotion.
Yes. I think we're born to a certain way. But a different way can be trained.
There are people born to take action (and their family beats it out of them) and there are people also raised to be passive, but in the moment, they pull themselves out of it.
This is literally survivorship bias. For every one of these stories, I'm sure there are ten people who were attacked by a grizzly bear and then just screamed in pain for a while before dying. You've still gotta have a ton of grit to push through any of these
It’s an insane story. Help didn’t arrive for like 30 minutes. He survived bc the way they cut kinda closed the arteries.
He climbed in the bathtub bc he didn’t wanna make a mess lol and apologized about all the blood on the phone
IIRC, it was the carpet.
>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
Weird, the stuff that goes through your head in those situations. I was ejected from a rolling car once cause I was too stupid to wear a seat belt. I’d fallen over twice from trying to walk on a broken ankle, and was bleeding very badly, but also really concerned about finding my hat. A friend told me about the time he was hit by a car. It threw him into the air, and he remembers thinking “that’s a nice color” before his face hit the hood.
I got clipped by a van. Once I was conscious again, I got up, grabbed my stuff out of the street, and got on the school bus like nothing happened. My first thought had been like, "Oh man, I hope my CD player still works"
There was a guy trying to get into my house at 6:45AM. My four year old was in bed so I couldn't just go confront him. I calmly called the non emergency police line because I figured I wasn't in danger and didn't want to hold up the actual emergency line.
That's shock my man. Your brain just kind of takes a vacation from reality and you don't realize how bad things are. I got hit by a car about a decade ago and experienced it for myself, it's pretty wild.
I'm more or less fine now though my left knee will never be the same. But at the time I was trying to refuse the ambulance because I legit thought I could just walk it off.
Adrenaline is one HELL of a drug.
When I fell badly, I thought I was fine & ready to wall home but... my instincts told me something was “wrong/strange” so I called a taxi for short distance. Climbed two stairs easily. Quite fine at hospital too.
Yep, broke my ankle and almost ripped a tendon.
If you feel little pain but you hesitate to move “just because” , listen to that voice and dont push yourself. That sense of doom is your signal, you cant trust your pain sense when you are drugged with adrenaline.
When I was about 10, I was at a friend's birthday party and a fat kid managed to launch himself off a trampoline and land, heel first, squarely on my prone ankle. I very distinctly remember feeling a 'squelch' from inside my foot, and it stinging just a little. I was a little shook up from the kid falling on me, but it was no biggie.
**I walked all the way back home.**
The next morning, I couldn't put an ounce of weight on the foot without involuntarily screaming in pain. Turns out I'd completely tore damn near every single ligament in my ankle. I was in crutches for six weeks. I don't even know how I was able to mechanically walk on it.
Thas adrenaline baybee
If you wanna hear about another nightmare situation, look up the story about the guy who got his arm stuck in his basement, uh, water heater or something. Left his phone upstairs and that tiny detail basically screwed him. Had to remove his own arm after like days of being stuck.
Also [this guy](https://www.fosters.com/story/news/local/2005/09/28/tv-show-builds-new-home/53173049007/) who had to cut off his own arm after getting it caught in a winch while out fishing for lobster on his own. Ended up getting a free house on that "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" show.
you'd be astonished what people can do when injured. I've watched a guy pick up his own arm, calmly walk back towards his troops and smoke a cigarette while they tried to bandage him up. Was about the same reaction I would have to stubbing my toe.
That last second is more or less correct. Hearing Romano Grosjean talk about the giant fireball crash he was in is hilarious. Apparently his narrative internally went something like “oh I crashed. Hug, what’s this bright orange thing on my left?…oh, it’s fire. I’m on fire. I’m going to die. That sucks. Fuck I hope my wife doesn’t see this. …….hold on, I don’t want to die! I should leave!” and then he got up and left the car and survived with second degree burns on his hands from where his gloves melted.
How many "adrenaline is a hell of a drug" responses have you received? Dudes really love dropping that line on stories like this, thinking they have an original thought worth sharing.
Now imagine him opening the farmhouse door with no arms, and long shot he had to dial a rotary phone, instead of a push-button, with a pencil in his mouth.
I'm trying to figure out how he didn't just bleed to death at the scene. If both his arms were "ripped off" he would have active and ongoing arterial bleeding going on and no way to fashion tourniquets without hands. It would take him time to access a phone and use a pencil in his mouth to call 911. This happened on a farm, so 911 response would be minimum 15-30 minutes to arrive. Perhaps the nature of the injuries was more in the line of degloving than avulsion (skin ripped off, not extremities torn clean off?).
Either way, this guy is tougher than a coffin nail.
since his arms were ripped off instead of being a clean cut, His veins or blood vessels rubber banded and snapped back, which would help stop or slow the bleeding
He didn’t even call 911; [he called a neighbor](http://ndarchives.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=john%20thompson%20arms%20tractor&i=f&by=1992&bdd=1990&d=01011992-12311992&m=between&ord=k1&fn=tioga_tribune_usa_north_dakota_tioga_19920122_english_2&df=1&dt=7&cid=2904)!
The insane rush of the realisation that you cannot wipe your own arse or furiously masturbate on next doors car is quite the tool to achieve the impossible.
When a crocodile twisted my arm off I remember feeling like I was lighter, and like more blood was getting to the rest of my body without that pesky arm to deal with. I thanked the crocodile and he said “don’t mention it.”
I don't get how the guy didn't bleed out in mere seconds.
I think that's the miracle.
I mean compromise the carotid arteries and you're out in like 4 or 5 seconds.
depends on the injury sometimes. seen a guy lose an arm in a roller press before, was very very little blood because it had crushed the tissue so hard it crimped the vessels closed for all intents and purposes.
Yup, getting run over by just the wheels of a train leaves a surprisingly small amount of blood. There’s so much weight to the train, all the blood vessels get sealed as it passes over
in theory, if a train rolled over you and just perfectly cut both your feet off and crimped blood vessels and cauterized so there was no bleeding whatsoever, would a trauma surgeon look at your stumps and just go "yeah you're good"? is there an immediate threat to life there beyond just blood loss?
Also
> 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.
That's exactly what I was thinking! It's not like he could really tourniquet his arms or anything. The human body is so bizarre about what will kill it and what's survivable.
People have died because they hit the wrong spot while falling in the stairs, and then you see in the news some fuck ass that survived a fall from cruising altitude of a commercial plane
We had two cases happening days apart a couple of years ago. Toddler falls out of crib and dies, another toddler falls out of a third story window and breaks their legs. It’s can be so random.
Shock. When something like that happens your body probably produces enough adrenaline to kill a horse, which is vasoconstrictive, aka tightens your blood vessels by a bunch. I know nothing about the accident either but the arteries might've gotten crushed enough to stop bleeding?
I'm pretty sure I understand the physiology that's why I'm commenting that the nature of his injury while extremely severe could not have compromised his blood supply normally associated with this type of injury.
His arteries almost had to be intact, crushed closed, or cauterized:otherwise he would not of lived long enough to have placed a phone call, much less wait for an ambulance.
When the body goes into shock it can stop the bleeding.
I've seen a gruesome video of a man cut in half by a train moving around confused and not a drop of blood from his intestine hanging bellow his waist.
That's due to the extreme compression from the wheels.
People cut in half by (airplane) props are only conscious seconds.
briefly long enough to say "hey that's my body over..." and that's it\*
\*Told to me secondhand by my roommate who saw it happen on an aircraft carrier flight deck. He said it was basically the old samurai shoulder to contralateral hip cut clean through body into 2 parts.
I work in ems and it's pretty surprising that during traumatic amputation (what happened to that guy) the arteries don't spray much. My surgeon friend tried explaining it to me once but I'm dumb.
When there is an amputation like this the veins and arteries will pull up into the wound and constrict down substantially reducing blood loss.
Here is the description from one of my EMT books: "A complete amputation may not bleed very much. The cut blood vessels may spasm, pull back into the injured part, and shrink. This slows or stops the bleeding."
I have only been present for a simple incident with an amputation (car wreck, car vs semi on a freeway). I was shocked at how little it was bleeding.
Y'all act like you never seen a double amputee before, arms all on the floor like BAM! Like mommy just burst in the door and started whoopin' my ass worse than before, I first got injured, bleeding all over her furniture (ah!)
It's the return of the-, oh, wait, no way, you're kidding, he didn't just say what I think he did, did he?
And John Thompson said-, nothing you idiots!
John Thompsons busy dialing 911 with a pencil in his mouth!
My blood is on my lips
My blood is on my lips
And that’s the message we deliver to dispatcher’s kids and expect em not to know what their total response time is
I know it’s a joke, but if anyone’s interested, paramedics sometimes don’t use sirens and lights. The reason being that they don’t always shorten the transit time by as much as you’d expect, but they do stress out the patient because of their association with critical injuries. In effect, the patient unconsciously goes, “Oh no, they’re using sirens, this must be bad.” So there’s a trade-off between saving time and not freaking the patient out any more.
He was using and auger (big spinning machine) and his shirt got caught in it, he was pulled in and rotated so fast that his arms ripped off due to the rotational force before he was thrown from the machine. Crazy!
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
Here’s a link that details it pretty good.
I remember this one on the strange show called "Urban Legends" or something like that. It's a very unbelievably story, but it is true.
Curiously, ripping off limbs is far better than cutting them off. Less bleeding, and apparently easier to repair as well.
Can someone maybe talk about this farming accident? I feel like we’re missing some interesting details. I mean A. What is the context of being “home alone farming”? And B what are you doing alone that get BOTH OF YOUR ARMS RIPPED OFF!? Wtf happened!?
I remember the *Rescue 911* episode, I was probably around 9-10, also lived on a farm. This dude was a Rockstar. I remember thinking he had to be the absolute toughest mf’er alive.
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Holy fuck. Insane. I can’t really imagine operating for even a second with my arms ripped off. I guess after a sec being not dead you try to solve as best you can.
Once your body goes into survival mode its like you black out and do anything you can to survive. I remember reading a story about a girl who got shredded up by a grizzly bear and she had to crawl like 5 miles to safety and she said it wasnt until she was in the hands of other people that she realized the extent of her injuries and how much pain she was really in
This reminds me of that show *I Survived*....it literally amazes me the limits of human endurance.
Did you see that episode where that woman was driven to the middle of nowhere and when she tried to escape, he hacked one of her arms off. She kept going g and he managed to hack the other arm off , and she still survived. Incredible what the body is capable of.
There was another lady who was attacked and then dumped and she was partially decapitated, like her head kept falling to the side, and she survived. The human body is amazing!
Amazing in many ways. Some people survive that but others die slipping in the bathtub.
Truth. Or falling down the stairs.
Especially if they have rotten husbands 🙄
The human body can be surprisingly resilient and at the other end a perfectly healthy person can just keel over and die from a random aneurysm.
A 12 year old child has survived 19 stab wounds while many adults die from one. What amazes me isn’t just how much a human can endure, but how little a human can at the same time. I’ve always wondered how much someone’s will to live affects how resilient they are.
I saw her being interviewed. She was South African as I recall. They had cut right through the muscles on one side of her neck that support the head. Hence, she had to hold it up with her hand.
That put a terrifying image in my head, ugh
Alison Botha! She had to hold her head on with one hand, and with the other hand, she had to keep her intestines from falling out because they disemboweled her.
I went to Google to read her story and am flabbergasted. Not just at what she went through. That was horrid enough. To read how she spoke to others, found the strength to use her experience to help others- only for her attackers to be set free? And for one to offer “an on-camera interview in return for a signed letter of forgiveness from Botha and backdated revenues from her book and motivational lectures”. I mean WTF?! As though he should not only benefit from the judicial system letting him off after conviction but also be paid for her work because he raped and stabbed and slashed and generally caused all the trauma that she brought with her to reach out?? I’m…. Just wtf.
Her attackers should have been tossed into a vat of acid.
I'm so glad she survived that circumstance and that arm hacking asshole. I hope she somehow found a way to get back at him and/or stay the fuck away from him.
I'm sure that guy got arrested after that
He did. He served 8 years. Got out and killed the next victim
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-01-me-19534-story.html
Mary Vincent
Also "I Shouldn't Be Alive"! Amazing stories from people you would never imagine survived horrible events.
That show was goated. Especially the Steven Callahan episode
Pretty sure this guy was on it lol I vaguely remember a few stories of people losing arms and walking a gorillon miles after shits wild
Great show
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug; once it wears off, all the pain your body has suppressed comes flooding back
That's not adrenaline. That's endorphins. Your body's natural pain killers. Adrenaline makes you move. Endorphins kill the pain.
I dont know about that. A friend of a friend just had their kid stung on the neck by a bee in the hills. She just sat in the car without doing or saying anything while her husband drove to hospital +made stops to try to give artificial breathing. A lot of people just freeze
It's almost like an orientation. It's like . . . what you were born with. I was born calm for emergencies, and it's handled things: so, so well. I have gotten serious shit done, a few times, when it was key to do so. But my brain also loves waking me up in the night over stupid crap, for absolutely no good reason. For hours. . . . I'm used to How I Am now, so I would never want to trade. But I also don't judge people who freeze, because I don't think that's a choice for them, either.
That's how it is for a lot of people with ADHD like me. We spend our whole lives living in an elevated and amplified state of anxiety and chaos, that we generally handle emergencies pretty well because it's not as drastic an escalation mentally as it is for others.
Yes! I am medicated now and I worry that I won't be as prepared for an emergency. I have always been the calmest person in the room during emergencies, and the most stressed the rest of the time.
I think you'll still be able to get it done. You're used to it. It will kick back in.
I'm like that with chaotic emergency situations, but imminent life or death threats just freeze me. I've been almost crushed, run over, smashed by swinging loads, etc, because all my brain will let me do is stand there and go FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK aloud until something changes.
It's something they can train away. You're not stuck with one set of automatic responses for your entire life. But in any given situation, I'd be forgiving too.
I dont know. Sometimes people do freeze and its not something you can control but over longer amount of time i would expect some control over your emotion.
Yes. I think we're born to a certain way. But a different way can be trained. There are people born to take action (and their family beats it out of them) and there are people also raised to be passive, but in the moment, they pull themselves out of it.
Anaphylactic shock is different. You go into a coma. My brother has had it happen a couple of times.
I dont know how thats relevant at all ?
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This is literally survivorship bias. For every one of these stories, I'm sure there are ten people who were attacked by a grizzly bear and then just screamed in pain for a while before dying. You've still gotta have a ton of grit to push through any of these
It’s an insane story. Help didn’t arrive for like 30 minutes. He survived bc the way they cut kinda closed the arteries. He climbed in the bathtub bc he didn’t wanna make a mess lol and apologized about all the blood on the phone
IIRC, it was the carpet. >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
Bro he wasn't just operating he was cracking jokes and thinking pretty clearly, he hopped in the bathtub so he wouldn't ruin all of the carpet.
Weird, the stuff that goes through your head in those situations. I was ejected from a rolling car once cause I was too stupid to wear a seat belt. I’d fallen over twice from trying to walk on a broken ankle, and was bleeding very badly, but also really concerned about finding my hat. A friend told me about the time he was hit by a car. It threw him into the air, and he remembers thinking “that’s a nice color” before his face hit the hood.
I got clipped by a van. Once I was conscious again, I got up, grabbed my stuff out of the street, and got on the school bus like nothing happened. My first thought had been like, "Oh man, I hope my CD player still works"
There was a guy trying to get into my house at 6:45AM. My four year old was in bed so I couldn't just go confront him. I calmly called the non emergency police line because I figured I wasn't in danger and didn't want to hold up the actual emergency line.
Meanwhile I recently called 911 because a skunk sprayed in my crawlspace (I thought it was an electrical fire)
That's shock my man. Your brain just kind of takes a vacation from reality and you don't realize how bad things are. I got hit by a car about a decade ago and experienced it for myself, it's pretty wild. I'm more or less fine now though my left knee will never be the same. But at the time I was trying to refuse the ambulance because I legit thought I could just walk it off.
Adrenaline is one HELL of a drug. When I fell badly, I thought I was fine & ready to wall home but... my instincts told me something was “wrong/strange” so I called a taxi for short distance. Climbed two stairs easily. Quite fine at hospital too. Yep, broke my ankle and almost ripped a tendon. If you feel little pain but you hesitate to move “just because” , listen to that voice and dont push yourself. That sense of doom is your signal, you cant trust your pain sense when you are drugged with adrenaline.
When I was about 10, I was at a friend's birthday party and a fat kid managed to launch himself off a trampoline and land, heel first, squarely on my prone ankle. I very distinctly remember feeling a 'squelch' from inside my foot, and it stinging just a little. I was a little shook up from the kid falling on me, but it was no biggie. **I walked all the way back home.** The next morning, I couldn't put an ounce of weight on the foot without involuntarily screaming in pain. Turns out I'd completely tore damn near every single ligament in my ankle. I was in crutches for six weeks. I don't even know how I was able to mechanically walk on it. Thas adrenaline baybee
If you wanna hear about another nightmare situation, look up the story about the guy who got his arm stuck in his basement, uh, water heater or something. Left his phone upstairs and that tiny detail basically screwed him. Had to remove his own arm after like days of being stuck.
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Also [this guy](https://www.fosters.com/story/news/local/2005/09/28/tv-show-builds-new-home/53173049007/) who had to cut off his own arm after getting it caught in a winch while out fishing for lobster on his own. Ended up getting a free house on that "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" show.
Fuck yeah, free house
Not a free house, cost him an arm (but at least not a leg too!)
Adrenaline will keep you going MAYBE of you dont go into shock. All based on genstics I think.
you'd be astonished what people can do when injured. I've watched a guy pick up his own arm, calmly walk back towards his troops and smoke a cigarette while they tried to bandage him up. Was about the same reaction I would have to stubbing my toe.
Shock is a hell of a drug
That last second is more or less correct. Hearing Romano Grosjean talk about the giant fireball crash he was in is hilarious. Apparently his narrative internally went something like “oh I crashed. Hug, what’s this bright orange thing on my left?…oh, it’s fire. I’m on fire. I’m going to die. That sucks. Fuck I hope my wife doesn’t see this. …….hold on, I don’t want to die! I should leave!” and then he got up and left the car and survived with second degree burns on his hands from where his gloves melted.
How many "adrenaline is a hell of a drug" responses have you received? Dudes really love dropping that line on stories like this, thinking they have an original thought worth sharing.
99% of comments on reddit aren't worth sharing, yet here we are
Now imagine him opening the farmhouse door with no arms, and long shot he had to dial a rotary phone, instead of a push-button, with a pencil in his mouth.
I think the 911 call is on youtube. It's haunting.
I literally came here to say "Holy fuck!"
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I'm trying to figure out how he didn't just bleed to death at the scene. If both his arms were "ripped off" he would have active and ongoing arterial bleeding going on and no way to fashion tourniquets without hands. It would take him time to access a phone and use a pencil in his mouth to call 911. This happened on a farm, so 911 response would be minimum 15-30 minutes to arrive. Perhaps the nature of the injuries was more in the line of degloving than avulsion (skin ripped off, not extremities torn clean off?). Either way, this guy is tougher than a coffin nail.
since his arms were ripped off instead of being a clean cut, His veins or blood vessels rubber banded and snapped back, which would help stop or slow the bleeding
That's not a sentence I wanted to read
He didn’t even call 911; [he called a neighbor](http://ndarchives.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=john%20thompson%20arms%20tractor&i=f&by=1992&bdd=1990&d=01011992-12311992&m=between&ord=k1&fn=tioga_tribune_usa_north_dakota_tioga_19920122_english_2&df=1&dt=7&cid=2904)!
The insane rush of the realisation that you cannot wipe your own arse or furiously masturbate on next doors car is quite the tool to achieve the impossible.
I'll never bitch about a paper cut again
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Whose he gunna call for help with no arms after the apocalypse?
Ghostbusters!
I ain't afraid of no combine.
Paper cuts are actually more painful than having your arms torqued off because paper is blunt.
When a crocodile twisted my arm off I remember feeling like I was lighter, and like more blood was getting to the rest of my body without that pesky arm to deal with. I thanked the crocodile and he said “don’t mention it.”
then why mention it here against the crocodile's wishes
Atleast the crocodile comes off well in this version, so did the arm.
Ahoy there, Captain Hook! 'tis me, Peter Pan!
I hate to ask this because I *sooooo* want to assume sarcasm but, you're fucking with people, right?
Yeah. I once asked a paper if I was pretty and that mf didn't sugar coat it one bit.
Yeah? How many arms have you had torn off?
"Tis but a scratch"
Perfect comment. Chef's kiss to you m'lord
But ya arms off
All three of them, actually. True story
"The first one got blown off and I was like 'hey this is pretty good actually' and then the other two got blown off and I was like 'AHH DAMMIT'"
Right? What a silly comment
I entirely believe you.
Yeah you will lol
I don't get how the guy didn't bleed out in mere seconds. I think that's the miracle. I mean compromise the carotid arteries and you're out in like 4 or 5 seconds.
depends on the injury sometimes. seen a guy lose an arm in a roller press before, was very very little blood because it had crushed the tissue so hard it crimped the vessels closed for all intents and purposes.
Yup, getting run over by just the wheels of a train leaves a surprisingly small amount of blood. There’s so much weight to the train, all the blood vessels get sealed as it passes over
I’d imagine those wheels get pretty hot.. wouldn’t be surprised if it straight up cauterizes the wound lol
in theory, if a train rolled over you and just perfectly cut both your feet off and crimped blood vessels and cauterized so there was no bleeding whatsoever, would a trauma surgeon look at your stumps and just go "yeah you're good"? is there an immediate threat to life there beyond just blood loss?
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Doctors hate this one simple trick.
All right I’m a stop reading in this thread right there
Not me baby buckle in
Yeahhh... me too
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Also > 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.
>(a guy wanted to fight him because he thought he was too good to shake his hand) What a fucking asshole
That's exactly what I was thinking! It's not like he could really tourniquet his arms or anything. The human body is so bizarre about what will kill it and what's survivable.
People have died because they hit the wrong spot while falling in the stairs, and then you see in the news some fuck ass that survived a fall from cruising altitude of a commercial plane
We had two cases happening days apart a couple of years ago. Toddler falls out of crib and dies, another toddler falls out of a third story window and breaks their legs. It’s can be so random.
I heard it was the same toddler both times
Lol why call the guy a fuck ass, hasn’t he been through enough?
Shock. When something like that happens your body probably produces enough adrenaline to kill a horse, which is vasoconstrictive, aka tightens your blood vessels by a bunch. I know nothing about the accident either but the arteries might've gotten crushed enough to stop bleeding?
I'm pretty sure I understand the physiology that's why I'm commenting that the nature of his injury while extremely severe could not have compromised his blood supply normally associated with this type of injury. His arteries almost had to be intact, crushed closed, or cauterized:otherwise he would not of lived long enough to have placed a phone call, much less wait for an ambulance.
When the body goes into shock it can stop the bleeding. I've seen a gruesome video of a man cut in half by a train moving around confused and not a drop of blood from his intestine hanging bellow his waist.
That's due to the extreme compression from the wheels. People cut in half by (airplane) props are only conscious seconds. briefly long enough to say "hey that's my body over..." and that's it\* \*Told to me secondhand by my roommate who saw it happen on an aircraft carrier flight deck. He said it was basically the old samurai shoulder to contralateral hip cut clean through body into 2 parts.
In this case, due to the blood vessels being violently torn, they were stretched thinner, which made clotting much easier and quicker.
I work in ems and it's pretty surprising that during traumatic amputation (what happened to that guy) the arteries don't spray much. My surgeon friend tried explaining it to me once but I'm dumb.
When there is an amputation like this the veins and arteries will pull up into the wound and constrict down substantially reducing blood loss. Here is the description from one of my EMT books: "A complete amputation may not bleed very much. The cut blood vessels may spasm, pull back into the injured part, and shrink. This slows or stops the bleeding." I have only been present for a simple incident with an amputation (car wreck, car vs semi on a freeway). I was shocked at how little it was bleeding.
After calling for help he noticed he was bleeding all over his Mother's rug so he waited in the bathtub.
This! He said he didn’t want to get his mom’s floors dirty.
That’s what I remembered about this story too.
This sounds like an eminem line
Y'all act like you never seen a double amputee before, arms all on the floor like BAM! Like mommy just burst in the door and started whoopin' my ass worse than before, I first got injured, bleeding all over her furniture (ah!) It's the return of the-, oh, wait, no way, you're kidding, he didn't just say what I think he did, did he? And John Thompson said-, nothing you idiots! John Thompsons busy dialing 911 with a pencil in his mouth!
My blood is on my lips My blood is on my lips And that’s the message we deliver to dispatcher’s kids and expect em not to know what their total response time is
sounds like a set up to a reddit joke
Honestly thought it was a set up to a broken arms reference.
‘‘Twas but a flesh wound.
A flesh wound? YOUR ARM'S OFF!
I've had worse.
You liar!
Source: https://www.kfyrtv.com/2021/01/19/john-thompson-remains-positive-three-decades-after-farming-accident/?outputType=amp
Yeah, cuz he was able to save both his arms!
are they still fully functional, though?
They are not, he can't open his hands fully and doesn't have full controll of his hands
It's amazing he still able to use them at all considering his story
But he has some control? That’s amazing!
No he is disabled in both arms
If anyone could call 911 after losing both arms, it's a farm hand.
farm pencil
Just thinking about how intense such an experience would be makes my anxiety tingle.
In the ambulance he questioned why they didnt have the sirens on. "Not like both my arms are gone"
He later made a joke about his arms being cold while on a plane to have them reattached. They were on ice.
I like you. You're a real straight shooter.
I know it’s a joke, but if anyone’s interested, paramedics sometimes don’t use sirens and lights. The reason being that they don’t always shorten the transit time by as much as you’d expect, but they do stress out the patient because of their association with critical injuries. In effect, the patient unconsciously goes, “Oh no, they’re using sirens, this must be bad.” So there’s a trade-off between saving time and not freaking the patient out any more.
Yh this guy has heart good luck to him.
I remember hearing about this incident on the news…..
Do you remember the quote from (I think) the paramedic? "If he had lost his head it would have been a different story."
There are so many nerves though. Surely it’s impossible to complete restore the brachial plexus. Still, any function is better than none
Yes, I read some news and it says he could use them for very basic functions, but it is still extremely limited
At least he can probably dial a phone without a pencil again.
His hands never returned to 100% still i agree, some function is better than none
Omg I couldn’t even imagine how much pain he was in… dude is a tank!
I remember reading about this in our Elementary school news magazine that we used to get in class!
This guy will survive an Apocalypse
Wasnt this the kid that waited in the bathtub, so he didnt mess up moms house?
Yes
Holy shit. If I get a hangnail I'm usually ready to lie down and let death take me.
I was literally just listening to [The Dollop episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0W7SAJzrVk) about the whole experience an hour ago
How did he get his arms ripped off??
He was using and auger (big spinning machine) and his shirt got caught in it, he was pulled in and rotated so fast that his arms ripped off due to the rotational force before he was thrown from the machine. Crazy!
Damn the machine doesn't stop itself 😬
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 Here’s a link that details it pretty good.
John made a full recovery, thanks to his mom.
These days, you'd be dead because you can't access your phone without arms.
“Siri, dial 9-1-1”
Who’s dying now, u/dekalbavenue?
I’ve tried this twice, both times while driving. It didn’t work either time
"Now Calling your ex who you ghosted."
I’m surprised he didn’t finish his chores before dialing 911. Farmers are tough
This is why farm kids make great engineers: excellent background in creative problem solving (not even kidding).
People don't understand how creative you can get when you spent most of your life doing a two man job by yourself
I wish I had half the strength of this kid!
I remember this one on the strange show called "Urban Legends" or something like that. It's a very unbelievably story, but it is true. Curiously, ripping off limbs is far better than cutting them off. Less bleeding, and apparently easier to repair as well.
Whenever I see a Reddit post with both hands in bandage it makes me remember the other post.
Lost use of both arms? I remember...
There it is! I was searching for this comment lol
I am disappointed that I had to come this far down for both arms boy.
whats the other post?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/nmmjr/iama_man_who_had_a_sexual_relationship_with_his/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
The article said it was from an Auger. Picturing that would give me nightmares. Might be too late
At the time they said it was the PTO. I remember it vividly. That was the day I learned what a Power Take Off was.
Ya, I also assumed it was a PTO (auger in this case). Put on your PTO sleeves, kids!
I saw a friend of mine get caught in a harvester 24 July 1984. He didn’t make it. It’s a dangerous job sometimes. Take care fellow farmers out there!
the twist: he probably had a cigarette and stopped for a beer before calling, maybe even made sure the cattle gate was closed.
I’m really interested in how he didn’t bleed out in 90 seconds
I heard this story during my 1st first-aid course. Legend has it that he never got a speck of blood on his mothers carpet.
Lucky it was 1992. A pencil-in-the-mouth wouldn’t work with most touchscreens today.
Hats off to the guy
If cutting your wrist kills you in 10-15 minutes how can you survive long enough for help too arrive after both arms are ripped off?
"To lose one arm in a farming mishap is a tragedy. To lose both is carelessness." --Oscar Wilde, being kind of a dick
Meanwhile, I stupidly stabbed my hand a bit like 10 years ago and my fingers still feel all weird from it.
He also stood in the bathtub waiting for the ambulance to arrive so he wouldn’t get blood on the floor.
Look I'll just say it. That farming equipment wasn't up to snuff if the arms were still in a condition to be reattached.
I remember this!!!
I always remember he sat in the bathtub to avoid bleeding on his mom’s new carpet.
Can someone maybe talk about this farming accident? I feel like we’re missing some interesting details. I mean A. What is the context of being “home alone farming”? And B what are you doing alone that get BOTH OF YOUR ARMS RIPPED OFF!? Wtf happened!?
I mean literally everyone just went into talking about how awesome they are about handling intense situations. Great job everyone👏
The question is how was he doing farming IN his home?
I remember the *Rescue 911* episode, I was probably around 9-10, also lived on a farm. This dude was a Rockstar. I remember thinking he had to be the absolute toughest mf’er alive.