My Left Foot
“I’ve got my foot back,” says Ezekiel Rubottom, 21, of Lawrence, Kan. “That’s all I wanted.” After it was amputated due to a bone infection, Rubottom kept his left foot in a bucket of formaldehyde on his front porch, but police confiscated it because “We had to make sure that no crime had been committed,” a police spokesman said. But they returned it after “verifying” it was his by looking at his medical records, which noted his recent amputation. (Lawrence Journal-World) ...You’d think it would have been easier to “verify” it was his by looking at the end of his leg.
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