Man caught in furnace tried cutting off his own arm

[Tuffty]

Jonathan Metz had been trapped for two days in his Hartford, Conn., basement with his left arm stuck in a broken furnace. Smelling rotting flesh, he decided that amputation was his only hope.

So he fashioned a tourniquet near his shoulder and began cutting. He made it almost all the way through, but wasn't able to free himself.

He was rescued Wednesday after three days in his West Hartford basement when worried friends called police and firefighters cut the furnace apart.

Doctors gave the account of Metz's harrowing experience at a news conference Thursday. They said the attempted self-amputation probably saved his life, preventing the infection in his gangrenous arm from spreading to the rest of his body.

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Say it with me everybody. OWWWWWWWWWWWWW. 

[Scramasax]

Someone give him an award for manliness!

[writerserenyty]

 

I.... wow.

That's something I could NEVER do. Wow.

[twissie]

They had this story up on a Norwegian news site a while back, and people were so rude in the comment section! o_o They were all "lol, so his friends came to look for him, he wouldn't have had to cut his arm off. WHAT AN IDIOT"  The people who comment on news sites .... D:

This guy deserves like an award in bravery or something. I would never in a million years have had the willpower to attempt to cut my arm off @_@;