Wash. Fisherman Cuts Off Own Fingertips

[rack'm]

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SEATTLE (AP) - A 51-year-old fisherman whose hand was pinned between his sinking boat and a log could not wait any more for help and decided to cut off two of his fingertips with a pocket knife to free himself, authorities said.


What a maroon

 

[Chasey_Lane]

He did what he thought he needed to in order to survive.

 

[rack'm]

He did what he thought he needed to in order to survive.

Look at the picture.......the water isn't waist deep.

 

[Chasey_Lane]

Look at the picture.......the water isn't waste deep.

That's all you are going on? The picture in the link? It doesn't show anything or I'm blind.

 

[rack'm]

That's all you are going on? The picture in the link? It doesn't show anything or I'm blind.

You're blind


If you look closely, you can see the boat at the log jam.......going to the link and enlarging the picture will help you see it

 

[Chasey_Lane]

If you look closely, you can see the boat at the log jam.......going to the link and enlarging the picture will help you see it

So where's the guy so we can see exactly how he was pinned and exactly how he was standing in waist-deep water?

 

[Foxhound]

I'm assuming the news crew didn't arrive and start taking picture till hours after the incident. Since 1/2 the boat is still above water I doubt the man was in danger of being dragged under water. Then again we don't know where or how he was pinned. Also for all we know it could be some kind of stock boating accident photo.

 

[Foxhound]

Okay caption says it the real boat.

 

[Sharon]

Since the one man jumped out to go for help, let's assume the second man was short or the water was actually deeper than it looks.


Then again...

If the first guy got out of the boat and walked to shore, the second guy really didn't need those fingers because he probably can't count that high anyway.

 

[LordStanley]

Is that a paddle boat???? Why were two men together in a paddle boat?

 

[itsbob]

There was another one a couple of weeks ago. Man got pinned under a tree I think.. after THREE HOURS he feared nobody would come rescue him, so he cut off his own leg..

now the one that made sense was the kid pinned under a boulder in Utah I think.. after going as long as he could, something like several days, he broke his lower arm, and then cut through it with a pocket knife.. HIS case he truly was in a life and death struggle (he was keeping a video log of how he was doing from day to day) and not just inconvenienced for a few minutes..