[AT] From AP Man cuts off his arm to free it from a antique corn picker.

[Mattias Kessén]

Ouch!

2007/11/27, Thomas O Mehrkam <tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net>:
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> Man cuts his arm off after it gets caught in farm machinery
>
> Associated Press
>
>
> CAMDEN, S.C. — A man whose hand got caught in a corn harvester cut off
> his own arm with a pocket knife after the machine started a brush fire.
>
> "I just told myself, 'I'm not going to die here,'" Sampson Parker said
> today on NBC's "Today Show."
>
> "I just kept fighting, kept praying. And then when I did get loose, I
> jumped up running, I had blood squirting from my arm," he said of the
> September incident. "It was pretty scary there for a while."
>
> Parker, a construction supervisor in Kershaw County about 20 miles east
> of Columbia, farms as a hobby. When he tried to remove a cornstalk stuck
> in the rusty harvester, his hand became stuck.
>
> "I went up with my hand, and the roller that takes the shucks off the
> corn had grabbed the glove and pulled my hand into the rollers," he told
> WIS-TV in Columbia.
>
> Parker called for help, but no one was around.
>
> After about 90 minutes, his hand went numb. He jammed a rod into the
> machine and started cutting away his fingers, but the rod and machine
> sparked a fire. He used his free hand to fight the fire but knew he was
> in even more trouble.
>
> "My skin was melting," he said. "Like melting plastic."
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> It was then that he cut off his arm to free himself.
>
> "I could feel the nerves as I was cutting my arm off," he recalled.
>
> Parker ran to his truck and drove to the front of his home about the
> time firefighter Doug Spinks passed by. Spinks wrapped Parker's arm and
> called for help.
>
> Parker said he is doing fine now and has tried to put the ordeal behind
> him.
>
> "It really wasn't the corn picker's fault. It was my fault. It was just
> a mistake I made," he said.
>
> Parker did not immediately return a telephone message today from The
> Associated Press.
>
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