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They Grow 'em Tough in Arkansas
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:49 pm
by southerngale
HARRISON, Ark. - After a farmer's arm was ripped off in a tractor accident, he picked up the limb, climbed back on the tractor and went home to get help. "What was I supposed to do? Lie there and die?" James Arlen Mondy's wife quoted him as saying. Doctors tried but were unable to reattach his arm after the Dec. 16 accident. Mondy was knocked off his tractor when it hit a hole and the spinning blades of a brush cutter chopped off his arm at the shoulder. As he made his way home, he stopped to open a gate, drove through, and then dismounted the tractor again to close the gate. He continued on his way and began to feel lightheaded. Luckily, a passing couple saw him and were able to summon help.
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:56 pm
by Josephine96
Yeah that's 1 way to define toughness lol
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:01 pm
by JCT777
I bet he is already back on the tractor. Definitely a very tough person!!
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:14 pm
by wx247
I saw that story on the local news. That's how they're grown...not in Arkansas, but in the Ozarks.
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:02 pm
by David
Wow... thats tough.
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:14 pm
by Stephanie
THAT'S a true survivor!!!
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 6:50 pm
by deb_in_nc
Pig iron tough.
Debbie
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 8:01 pm
by AussieMark
That is tough.
I personally would find it agonising.
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 8:08 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
Yeesh!! That's some toughness!! Had that been me, I would be fine until I looked at it, and then out COLD!!!