Amputated limb battle reaches final leg

[Gromit]

A television judge has ended a bizarre custody battle over an amputated leg that was accidentally sold at auction hidden inside a barbecue oven.

John Wood, whose leg had to be cut off near the knee after a plane crash in 2004, had kept the limb because he wanted to be cremated "whole" when he dies.

Falling on hard times, Mr Wood, from South Carolina, was forced to sell his possessions but forgot to remove his leg before parting with his barbecue smoker.

Shannon Whisnant, who bought the oven, found the leg inside and later had it embalmed.

Are you as pleased as I am that this case has finally been resolved?

[daffy654]

So who got the leg???

[libertie]

Couldn't make it up could you! Even you Gromit! :0)

[daffy654]

Hahaha,just found the story by googling.I don't see why the man has to pay to get his leg back though.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2007/11/02/wamputee102.xml

[Gromit]

Sorry, here is the link...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2007/11/02/wamputee102.xml

[Lucy Thomas]

Gromit, it shows how sad you must be that you even care about this.

[squarebear]

He will have to pay for it back as he has already sold it to someone else.

Imagine if you sold a wardrobe then decided you wanted one of the doors back. It would be unfair for the person to give you it back when they had already paid you for it.

[China Doll]

I maintain that at least one of them didn't have a leg to stand on.

Lucy Thomas - Why the insults at the lovely but occasionally grumpy and apparently (well today anywa) misunderstood Gromit?

[SKA]

Why didn't the guy just give the led back? Why would you want somebodys leg?!?!?

[cambus]

Liked the bit about ~ falling on hard times.

[squarebear]

Maybe he didn't give it back as he was planning on using it as a "stocking filler" for Christmas?

[China Doll]

Think how much easier the three legged race will now be tho.

[Lucy Thomas]

China Doll. Why not?

[China Doll]

Well why not indeed, he is more than capable of answering back but I just wondered what the need was?

On reading this thread though I would just question whether what Gromit finds sad and what he finds funny might actually be two different things before I answered.

[Lucy Thomas]

By the way. If you think that is an insult then you really don't know me. That's just me warming up.

[anotheoldgit]

So it is alright then to make fun of a person with only one leg .

Does anyone know if he was Black or not?

If he was he certainly has "a leg to stand on".

[ruby27]

Gromit

You truly deserve an award over and above stars. Not only can you be trusted to almost daily provide news posts, you now provide follow ups. Will this be a service avaiable to all of your posts, can we request updates on threads no longer on the first page, is there a time limit on how far you will go back?

ruby27 member of the Gromit appreciation society

[China Doll]

Gromit Appreciation Society?!!?? My arse!!!

I'm some what worse for weather by the way but Grom's has to forgive me... I hope.

[ruby27]

Young lady
the Gromit Appreciation Society is most certainly not your backside, however attractive that may be. It is an exclusive membership (possibly single membership only) where only good taste is allowed, certainly it does not include ladies who express profanities and consume white wine into the early hours of the morning.

Consider yourself excluded.

[China Doll]

It was two white wines, two cosmopolitans with too much tripplesec (as the guy didn't know how to make them so I helped out) and a couple of bottles of sol.

I need a bottle of ice cold coke, some sun glasses and someone to tell me what to wear today.