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Homeless Man Severs His Own Arm With Homemade Guillotine

Oct. 29, 2011 7:05am Christopher Santarelli

A homeless Washington man has lost his arm in a gory accident this Halloween weekend. Police say the guillotine unexpectedly dropped on the man’s shoulder Thursday, severing his arm, at a makeshift camp where he was living.

After the accident, the man and his severed arm were rushed to Harborview Medical Center with hopes of reattaching it after first walking to local clinic. CBS Seattle reports that one woman outside the clinic told an employee; “I hope that’s a Halloween costume,” referring to the man missing his arm.

The condition of the victim is not known at this time, but Bellingham police said in a release he was being transferred to Harborview in Seattle for further treatment.

KTLA reports that Officers say the guillotine was constructed out of 2 by 6 by at least 12-feet tall timbers that the man found by scavenging the local area.

“A lot of thought and a lot of work and lot of preparation went into making this device and it was apparent this individual used this device to sever his own arm,” Mark Young of the Bellingham Police told KOMO.

KOMO reports that while the injured man was interviewed by police, other officers grabbed a chainsaw and went to go dismantle the guillotine, which Young said looked just like ones you would see in medieval times.

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Mahdi Al-Dajjal
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:48am
doc00017
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:24am

The real question who was it meant for?

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Exactly what I was thinking. You don’t just build a working guillotine in a remote wooded location because you’re interested in splitting logs for your woodpile.

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- FORLORNHOPE
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:41am
  OWS requested a Guillotine for the general assembly, he was helping out
  
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- donh2
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:18pm
  Clearly this guillotine was no prank Halloween display. It is HARD evidance OWS is establishing execution facilities off site to drag their targeted victims. I am very disappointed Beck isn’t taking the OWS more seriously. He has been prophetic but still way off the mark in underestimating the diabolocal powers we are all facing. Beck is the one person who seems to have tapped into the demomic force threatening our civilization…. now here it is right before your eyes and Glenn is crouching in a corner thumbing his lips in mental break down. Hey Glenn. That could be your head we see on you tube video getting cut off. . If you are not going to fight for you life and report what is really going down…take your family and move to Panama and put someone in your place better qualified to expose and expell PURE EVIL. We need you and I care about you as you stand on the front line. They chop your head off first, then they come for me everyone else. So when you see operational guillotines respond appropriately . BE an exorcist or FIND one.
  
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- Vickie Dhaene
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:31pm
  He must have see Rosanne Barf spouting off. Just wanted to please the party.
  
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- AZindependent
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:38pm
  Candidate for the Darwin Award?
  
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- KickinBack
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:24pm
  It sure as heck wasn’t a Halloween prop.
  
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- RavenGlenn
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:24pm
  He has to die to get the Darwin award.
  
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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:44am
Here’s your sign.

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- motonutt
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:51am
  This is not the first time this has happend. I remember a few years ago a guy who I think was in the Chicago area did the same thing. In that incident they said it was some kind of a weird fetish. This sounds like the same thing.
  
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- Islesfordian
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:43am
  “the guillotine, which Young said looked just like ones you would see in medieval times.”
  
  Appparently Young doesn’t know that the guillotine was invented in the late 18th century.
  
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- MARCH4HIM
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:13am
  It dosn’t look pretty ,but obviously works as intended,
  I cant help but wonder, if he somehow wached the R Barr segement
  when she said we need to bring them back..?
  
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- RossPoldark
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:29am
  There was a story on TV about people who self mutilate by cutting off parts of their bodies. It is extreme, because like this guy, they have been known to cut of limbs! He either meant this for himself, or someone or something else.
  
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- JMorcan
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:27pm
  @MOTONUTT – A fetish?? I’m afraid to ask what he was chopping off.
  
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- gtrissel
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:53pm
  r barr isnt the only one talking about bring the gullotine back, ive been hearing it brought more and more.
  
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- rs9
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:08pm
  I love stories that prove that there is always a reward for stupidity
  
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- seldomscene
  Posted on October 30, 2011 at 1:03pm
  Blue collar, red shirt joke? That’s funny right there!
  
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ktmrider1
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:40am
thining of the herd to bad he didnt put his neck in there

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- brian88
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:48am
  i hope he measured twice.
  
  bottom line is, why would someone make a guillotine? you don’t know this guys intent, so maybe karma severed his arm instead of possibly and innocent being.
  
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- warrior21
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:07pm
  Homeless man builds “homemade guillotine “? How he has no home?
  
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- Glenn in Virginia
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:18pm
  @Warrior
  
  I was wondering the same thing. How can a homeless man make a “homemade” anything?
  
  God Almighty! Newspaper (and internet) articles are becoming more and more illiterate.
  
  Back in the halcyon days when I was a young assistant editor, if I’d let that get by me and in the paper, I’d have been a laughing stock for weeks, if not months.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:24pm
  Yep, Ya just can’t fix STUPID !!
  
  Was he fabin’ this for Roseanne ???
  
  OWWWW !!
  
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- HorseCrazy
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:02pm
  this man is mentally ill. he has been in and out of mental hospitals but the funding to keep him and people like him in these hospitals was cut long ago. to me this is a very sad case, this man will be back out on the streets and MANY mentally ill in our state of WA who seem to constantly be going off medication and killing people. we need to go back to a time where police are not the ones dealing with them, they are not mental health experts, we need to go back to permanantly institutionalizing those who see things and hear voices. It is a danger to society to have them out and they need prayers love and support.
  
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proliance
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:39am
I’m sure at some point the phrase “Hey, hold my beer for a second” was used.

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- Lesterp
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:48am
  Good one
  
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- DonaldH
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:26am
  LOL,, or ” hey, watch this”
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:39pm
  Or, Hey, Ya Gotta See This ! bet I can get it out in time !!
  
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- INOGAWD
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:49pm
  Gotta check that safety, before OSHA get’s here !!
  
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ktmrider1
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:39am
maybe if he put in as much effort of finding a job as he did building a guillotine he wouldnt be homeless

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- Phattdad144
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:21am
  Sounds like he has the skills to start his own business. Unfortunately lacking the direction and common sense to do so.
  
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- KT
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:59pm
  Why get a job-the government will take care of you!
  
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nt
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:38am
Good thing the world series is over and don’t need him to pitch now. Seriously, the cops need to find the reason why it was build and for whom.

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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:33am
Maybe he’s french.

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Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:31am
What would OSHA say?

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- Outlaw_Josey_Wales
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:36am
  Was he wearing a hard hat and steel toe boots.
  
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- Dustyluv
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:14am
  Don’t give OSHA any more ideas!!!!!
  
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Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:30am
See….. This clown couldnt do anything right. You’re supposed to put your head in the hole. Robes Pierre…. Where are you when we need you? Bet he’s on Social Security within the week.

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:30am
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Way to go Forest………….

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- Ivehadenoughtofthisgovenmentcrap
  Posted on October 30, 2011 at 11:21am
  Stupid is, as stupid dose……
  
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zupwidat
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:30am
Must be a liberal guillotine. Took away the hobo’s (er, domicilely challenged individual) right to bear arms.

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- iac
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:32am
  Ya ! How’s he gonna roll up his sleeves, er sleeve now !
  
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- iac
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:35am
  Then again, don’t you mean ‘bare arm’ ? LOL
  
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The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:26am
If he was heading to Washington…he’d never get that through the TSA!

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- theborgster
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:34am
  Are you sure? The occasional traveller with a guillotine is probably okay. It’s those gray-haired ladies in wheel chairs… those are the ones that typically get the full body search!
  
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- pazzo242
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:39am
  Yeah but they would leave him a note to “get your groove on, dude!”
  
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doc00017
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:24am
The real question who was it meant for?

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nobull14
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:16am
You have to admit what a moron!!!. although I feel sorry for him.

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YepImaConservative
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:16am
The Police asked the homeless and bloodied one-armed man why he ran from them?

He stated… “I wasn’t trying to run from you… I was in a hurry to get to the second hand shop!!” The Police said… “here, let me give you a hand into the ambulance… no, not THAT hand… the other one.”

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- Ned Reid
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:45am
  I wonder if “Lefty” is laughing as hard as I am at your comments?
  
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- YepImaConservative
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:13pm
  Heh-heh-heh.
  
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macpappy
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:14am
What ever it takes to get that disability check from SSI. He will not be homeless anymore. A missing limb rates you at the top of the SSI pay rates.

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 7:32pm
  Sad, but true….Probably sue someone to boot…
  Get Gloria Allred on this..get this guy to cry..
  
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TxMadMac
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:13am
I’m so proud of him. Good job. It worked. What the hell were you thinking mister !!! What’s that line from A Chorus Line ? I’m reaching way down inside of me and I felt NOTHING !

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Ampleforth
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:11am
Now he’s disabled and will be another tick sucking the blood out of the productive. He can still reproduce because he didn’t cut off his short arm.

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:18am
  Go away troll..
  
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- iac
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:27am
  Hey Ample-, Too F’in funnny !
  
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- Ampleforth
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:39am
  Troll? I’m a regular irregular. It’s not enough that I have one job, but with the Obama administration’s monetarial policies, I’ve had to start working two jobs (the second one is actually free-lancing so not a real job) to keep my family’s head above water. I don’t often have time to post on message boards.
  
  Troll?! Do you disagree with what I wrote? There’s only a speck of humor in my statement. The guy will end up on disability. I can almost guarantee you that. I’m advisor to governments, and I’ve seen similar stupidity end up costing the taxpayers’ hundreds of thousands of dollars. Do you think that my hard earned money should be confiscated — yes, confiscated because I don’t pay it willingly — to put this guy on the gravy train because he decided to build a guillotine and impaired himself with it?
  
  I’ll tell you, it’s probably too bad he didn’t cut off his freakin’ head. I was being nice when I mentioned his short arm. Navy folks understand that expression.
  
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- shirelover
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:52am
  Ample, I think it was funny, just not PC. Are we becoming PC here? I hope not but at the same time I hope that we don’t wish anyone harm… sometimes it’s a very blurry line! Personally, I agree that this one should be taken out of the gene pool.
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:09am
Sue old fat **** and ugly mouthed roxanne barr whose idea it was to bring the guillotine back! You could be set for life unless the lawyers figure out somehow you are responsible for yourself and your actions. There’s always that.

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ares338
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:09am
At least he didn’t lose his head over the whole thing!

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:09am
  LOL now that was FUNNY!
  
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poorrichard09
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:08am
He didn’t even know how to use it properly. If he did, he would have cut off his stupid HEAD. Love the “Rosanne” comment!

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Gonzo
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:08am
Why exactly does a homeless man need guillotine? Wouldn’t his time be better spent building a shelter? I guess that’s a good example of why he’s homeless.

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- iac
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:30am
  The man was a Minimalist .
  Smaller hobo; smaller shelter !
  
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- evilhatemonger
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:53am
  Fair question.
  Regarding the headline:
  Technically he didn’t actually lose his arm. It was right there in plain sight where he left it.
  
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RetiredChief
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:06am
Darwinism at work!

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randy
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:00am
Was he making the guillotine for Rosanne Barr?

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drago
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:58am
Another idiot that needs to be removed from the gene pool, hope he didnt reproduce….
And no, i have no compasion for stupidity…..

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- Devil Dog 7175
  Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:12am
  Agreed! What a dumb azz…
  
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