Motorists see man with prosthetic leg run burning down highway.

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Man set on fire after losing drinking bet
By Ashley Meeks ameeks@lcsun-news.com
Posted: 07/10/2010 12:02:48 AM MDT

LAS CRUCES - It's not unusual for motorists to report a suspicious-looking hitchhiker to the police - unless the hitchhiker is naked and running into highway traffic with a prosthetic leg on fire.

The 47-year-old Mesilla Park man is recovering at a Texas burn center after being found on the U.S. 70 bridge over Del Rey Boulevard just before 7 p.m. Monday, with "significant" burns to his leg, buttocks, his plastic prosthesis "and what was left of his sock," according to Las Cruces Police Department reports.

In addition to "the burnt remains" of his clothing, an officer also found a 5-inch tube stuffed with wire mesh, which appeared to have been used as a smoking pipe.

The cause of the burns, the man told police, was losing a drinking game for having "only drank a six-pack," according to the police report.

As punishment, his three friends set his jeans and his prosthesis on fire and let the material - then his flesh - burn and blacken until he "could not stand the pain of wearing clothes" and stripped down to his shoes, the police report states.

When he couldn't stand the flames any more, he asked for a ride from his friend's home on Butterfield Boulevard to somewhere near a medical clinic, since his friends "didn't want to take him all the way to the hospital because they thought they were going to get arrested," the man told police. His friends got nervous when he complained of his pains, he said, and dropped him off on the highway.

Before police arrived, the man
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ended up throwing his cigarettes and wallet into the bed of a truck, whose occupants locked the door and drove off when they saw he was naked. (The motorist later contacted police to return the man's wallet.)

No criminal charges were filed against the men who set him on fire or left him on the highway, and the man told police he didn't once try to stop them.

"If they had lost the bet," the man told police, "he would have done the same to them."

Well I'm stumped.

Scuid Mhór

his friends sound like real noble guys.

Run_to_da_hills

Your must be pulling my leg.

the keen edge

'Naked man with a burning prosthetic leg, runs down highway'

Is there any news story on the internet I wont jerk off to?







Credit Frankie Boyle.

TheZohanS

Before police arrived, the man
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You'd wonder how much pain he was really in if he managed to do an ad. for Quantcast...

Leeg17

Run Forest Run
Burn Forest Burn!!

dilallio

Good job it wasn't his prosthetic arm which was burning....

Otherwise he would have been arrested for . . .















Possession of a firearm :P

Princess Zelda

I expected to see a man with a prosthetic leg actually setting the highway on fire here. I am disappoint

Silverfish

dilallio wrote: »

Good job it wasn't his prosthetic arm which was burning....

Otherwise he would have been arrested for . . .






Possession of a firearm :P

You're a bad person and I'm going to hell.

NoHornJan

Flamin' Norah!!!!

Liam Byrne

A drinking game as an excuse ?

He's in trouble - he hasn't a leg to stand on.

minister poxbottle

It could have been great balls of fire, one legged man with balls ablaze running on highway

AgileMyth

dilallio wrote: »

Good job it wasn't his prosthetic arm which was burning....

Otherwise he would have been arrested for . . .















Possession of a firearm :P

I hope he doesn't end up in court.

He wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

squod

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