Flammable Man from Las Cruces on Crutches?
This was shared by our friend, Bill ‘FungusMungus’ Ludwig, from his Twitter feed. As a way of saying thanks for the quirky news of loony people, which I always love to hear about, I’d like to suggest catching his fairly new webcomic “This Little Piggy“.
- Naked man hospitalized after drinking game leads to prosthetic leg being set aflame
LAS CRUCES, NM
A 47-year-old Dona Ana County man is in a Texas burn center after a drinking game left him nude on the side of the highway with his prosthetic leg in flames.
Sheriff’s deputies learned that the victim and friends were drinking Monday and had made a bet that whoever drank the least would be set on fire, according to a news release.
The victim told investigators that since he drank only six beers, the least amount, he agreed to let his friends set him on fire.
The victim, who has a prosthetic left leg made of plastic, said his friends set his leg on fire, which spread to his buttocks and lower back area, causing severe burns.
Not being able to stand the pain, the victim disrobed. His friends then decided to take him to the hospital but became “nervous and dropped the victim off” on U.S. 70, the release said.
Witnesses reported seeing an individual walking on a U.S. 70 bridge with his leg on fire. Another witness reported that the victim was naked, while other witnesses reported that the victim was struck by two cars and even attempted to jump into passing vehicles as well into the path of an oncoming tractor-trailer.
When questioned by deputies if he had asked his friends to stop at any point in time while setting him on fire, he stated “no, he lost the bet” and therefore did not attempt to stop them.
The man was taken from MountainView Regional Hospital to a Texas burn treatment center.
(Source: Naked man hospitalized after drinking game leads to prosthetic leg being set aflame, Las Cruces Sun News, 09 July 2010)
Having been a young and impetuous youth I can appreciate bar bets that involve eating strange foods, making passes at the ugliest girl/boy/dubious gender/animal mascot in the bar or stripping off, running the circuit of the Disneyland Paris hotel you are staying in and then returning to find that your roommates have passed out in the room with the door locked.
I often wonder how some of these bar bets can reach this stage, especially after so few beers are consumed, where the idea of immolation becomes a totally awesome idea. I also wonder how this can happen with a 47 year old, and all I can think is that the redness of the flame is only matched by that of the neck.
Personally, I think that they should have gone for a theme with the drinking game though. If the end result is someone is going to be set alight, then all the drinks should be those that are bought out aflame. This might have something to do with me getting a case of giggles about the idea of a bunch of middle aged to elderly rednecks getting out of their rusted pickup trucks, entering a bar and ordering flaming sambuca.
I have to admit though, if I ever had a limb replace, the temptation to set fire to a prosthetic body part as a joke or bar bet would always be present. Difference would be, I’d be doing it planned, and then solving the problem by throwing the affected appendage away by making it look like I ripped it from the socket.
…but that’s just me…