Police Give Man Amputated Foot Back

[ConfuZed]

LAWRENCE, Kan. - Ezekiel Rubottom now has his left foot back exactly where he wants it — in a bucket on the front porch. Police in Kansas have returned the amputated foot to him after seizing it during the weekend to check out just how it got there.

The 21-year-old man's foot was amputated three weeks ago after a series of medical problems, and he started keeping it in a five-gallon bucket filled with formaldehyde.

It came to the attention of police after a call from a parent whose child reported seeing the severed foot. Officers who went to the home late Saturday night found the foot, and some of Rubottom's friends, but no sign of Rubottom himself.

Unsure of what to make of the unusual discovery, police confiscated the severed foot and put it into evidence storage.

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[DRoseDARs]

1. Yur link dun be broken, I'd sur like ta red the rest of da story...

Who the bloody hell keeps their detached foot on their porch? Put it in the window like normal people, dumbass. :eyes:



:P

[Strawman]

2. kick!

sorry. couldn't resist.

[knowbody0]

5. laugh

[flamin lib]

3. Takes all kinds to fill a freeway . . . nt

[unrepuke]

4. Zeke oughta get a kick outta that. hyuck hyuck

Let's all give him a big hand...

:7

[flamin lib]

7. Might as well, already has a foot . . .

[MuseRider]

6. different link

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/jul/26/amputee_happy_be/?city_local

try this one.

[Rainscents]

10. Thanks for the link!

[Karla Marx]

8. Ezekiel Rubottom! What a name!

You'd have to be a character with a name like that. If this story is real...

[Rainscents]

9. Glad to see he got his foot back! Great story!

Poor guy... can you imagine, police take your foot for evidence? LOL

[atommom]

11. I'm pretty sure a bucket isn't an appropriate container for a severed

foot in formaldehyde, but it sounds as if this guy is very much on his own wavelength. :crazy:

Rubottom said he cut off two toes, which he was considering giving to friends. He added trinkets to the bucket, including a porcelain horse and a can of Hamm’s beer, to make it what he called “a collage of myself.”

“I think I’m doing better with this than anybody will ever be that’s gotten something amputated,” he said.