Post by Coffin Jim on Jul 4, 2008 18:41:26 GMT -5
I thought it might be fun to share a little-known urban legend every week or so, so here's the first in the series:
("Too Good to be True: the Colossal Book of Urban Legends", Brunvard)
"A man comes into the hospital emergency room and asks to see a doctor. When the attending physician comes into the examining room, the man removes his pants and the doctor sees that the man's scrotum is wrapped in yards of soiled linen and has swollen to huge size. The man won't tell the doctor what happened to him, so the doctor takes X-rays. He finds that there are staples in the man's scrotum. When confronted with this information, the man finally tells his story.
"He is a woodworker, and since one day he had a little spare time on his hands, he decided to use his stationary belt sander as a means of sexual gratification. He had done this many times before without any undue incident. This time, however, he slipped and fell onto the belt sander as it was running at full speed. The man was thrown eight or nine feet forward into the wall. When he picked himself up he discovered that he had torn open his scrotum.
"In spite of the awful pain, the man just couldn't face a doctor with such a story, so he stapled his scrotum together. Unfortunately, the staples were neither sterile nor proof against rust, so his scrotum became terribly infected, forcing him to eventually go to the doctor after all. Well, the doctor cleaned the wound and fixed the poor guy up the best he could, but then he had to break the horrible news: when the accident had happened the man's testicles had been ripped free from his scrotum and had been lost. With all the blood and pain the man had never noticed, and now it was too late to go looking for them. He had been castrated by a belt sander."
("Too Good to be True: the Colossal Book of Urban Legends", Brunvard)