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Is this the most bizarre thing you have ever heard??!!?

US MEN BATTLE OVER OWNERSHIP OF AMPUTATED LEG (from Yahoo! News) MIAMI (AFP) - Two US men are locked in a war of words over custody of an amputated leg, which one of them says he lost in a plane crash and another insists he owns since it was inside a barbecue he bought at an auction. (Advertisement) John Wood of South Carolina says he had left the limb inside the barbecue smoker at a storage facility, because he wanted to be buried with it. But the storage business auctioned off the barbecue and other items after Wood fell behind with payments. Wood is now up in arms over the leg the buyer of the barbecue wants to keep. Shannon Whisnant, who was at first shocked by what he found inside the smoker, now believes it could bring him fame and fortune. For now, he has put up a sign on the smoker charging adults three dollars and children one dollar for a peek inside, even though the leg is no longer inside but at a funeral home. He believes a lot more money could be made by going on television shows. Whisnant even suggested joint custody of the leg, much to Wood's outrage. "He's making a freak show out of it," said Wood. "He wants to go on 'The Tonight Show' and he wants to sell it to the National Enquirer and call Ripley's Believe It or Not. He wants to put money in his pocket with this thing." "I just think it's despicable," he said. Wood lost the leg in a 2004 plane crash that killed his father. He kept the limb in a freezer, then dried it out in his front yard, and eventually stored it away. Whisnant said that when he found the leg he thought "it might have been part of a missing person or someone's ex-wife" and called police, which gave the limb to a funeral home. To date, Wood has not taken legal action to force the return of his leg cozy - oops sorry - and I did a search for 'amputated' in answers first and everything

Public Comments

1. only in America eh!
2. hahaha hasn't got a leg to stand on should have put it in jokes
3. What people will do for money beggars belief.
4. Poor guy he has lost his leg twice.
5. OMG now i know the word has gone mad lol
6. Its amazing what they get up to at the other side of the pond!!!
7. Yea, posted the same q earlier http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ajk.y6vodddOCdNrSYyayj0gBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20071003111414AAusfMC Ok babe forgiven - now can we share the points !! Kinda mad story tho ehh !!
8. Mr Wisnant appears to be " A total cu*t "
9. If I hadn't read it here I would not have believed it!
10. Have you seen the interview w/him? He's definetly not the brightest tool in the shed.
11. bet that fight is costing an arm and a leg