I had to share this one in light of some of the more novelty-focused articles we’ve been discussing.
In short, a North Carolina man (Whisnant) found a leg in a barbecue smoker and, for whatever reason, wants to keep it. But it gets stranger. The leg belongs to a South Carolina man (Wood) who, after losing it in an airplane crash, stored it in the smoker. (Did you just say “what?” out loud to yourself? I did too.) Apparently Wood wanted to be buried with the leg when he died. After spending time in the freezer, the leg was dried out, wrapped and kept in the smoker—which consequently went into a storage facility when the Wood was evicted. When he couldn’t pay the rent, the facility began to sell off his items, and Whisnant happened to buy the smoker. There are more details if you’d like to read them here.
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This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read. First, Mr. Wood is weird for wanting to be burried with his severed leg. Then he's more wierd because he keeps it in his freezer and then later hangs it out to dry and then puts it in a smoker. Mr. Whisnant is also weird because he wants to keep Wood's leg, which he claims is now his. Why does he think he can use a leg to make money? I love it when newspapers publish stories about wacked up people. Sometimes I feel bad because I'm more interested in the messed up stuff than the important current events. Oh well.
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