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Old 01-09-2015, 05:34 PM   #1
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Default One way to store your car parts

Keep them on you at all times. That way no one steals them and they don't deteriorate. . . much.

Back in 1963, Lampitt was working as a real estate agent. On his way to show a house, he plowed head on into a truck while driving his new Thunderbird.


The accident was so terrible that the local radio station began calling it a fatal crash before learning that Lampitt had survived.


Lampitt's hip was badly broken in the crash, but his arm (at least on the surface) looked fine. He was taken to the hospital, and patched up. No one suspected that anything happened with his arm.


Then one day in 2014 Lampitt was doing some work at a court house and his arm kept setting off the metal detector. That's when he knew something was amiss. X-rays found that there was a long, slender, metal object embedded below his skin. Since the object didn't seem to be bothering Lampitt, his doctors advised doing nothing.



Then in late 2014, something shifted in Lampitt's arm and he began to feel a sharp pain. After a couple of days the pain began to move, and something started bulging under his skin. That's when he began to suspect that the pain had something to do with his accident all those years ago. Lampitt contacted a friend who had taken pictures of the crash scene. Sure enough the blinker lever was missing from the car.


Within a matter of days Lampitt was under the knife, having the old turn signal switch removed from his arm before it could cause any damage.


Since his surgery, Lampitt has made a full recovery and still has full use of his left arm. I'd like to know why the turn signal didn't become massively infected while it was embedded under Lampitt's skin.
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Saw that.....it's amazing he survived at all!
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Old 01-09-2015, 06:24 PM   #3
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Thinking the chrome plating held off initial "infection?

Then as it deteriorate slowly over the year, his body's immune system adapted...kinda like the "snake grabbers" who inject the poison into themselves, slowly, over time, and are not infected when bitten.

The human body is an amazing thing for sure.

But wow, what a story...wonder if he's thinking of building a car around that lever?

Heard some have done it over a radiator cap!
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Old 01-09-2015, 06:47 PM   #4
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Hi ,Mr Lampitt I got a phone call for you says his name is Ripley
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I wonder if those bald tires contributed to the mis-hap?
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Those T Birds were tuff cars, he's lucky he was in that.
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I just love how the newspapers and the driver recall it as a '63 - the car is actually a '62.
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I wonder if those bald tires contributed to the mis-hap?
Lots of miles on that tire for a new or even a year old car.
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But his left eye has stopped twitching since it was removed.
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I guess he wondered why he always veered to the left .lol
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I guess it takes a broken hip to overlook a whole turn signal lever stuck in your f#@!*n arm! That dude is tough as hell!
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Good thing his airbag deployed, oh wait that's the hood!!!!!
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Why no infection??? He was probably using that Penicillin tainted Cow milk in his coffee the EPA is alway warning us about. (Well that is as good an explanation as has been given yet.)
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Old 01-11-2015, 12:10 PM   #15
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Figure that metal rod got shot into the arm tissue really quickly and physically pretty smoothly during the collision. Dude's car was fairly new and tidy and didn't have a lot microbes built up on its surface (which was not pitted yet because of new chrome and very featureless) The skin and tissue around the signal lever was so quickly and dramatically opened it basically wiped the lever clean at the surface while it went in then slammed shut over the hole and swelled up enough to look like a little boo-boo! If his arm were broken in the same wreck today they would put a rod in there on purpose and charge him a huge grip, haha! Doubtful they would miss it on the xray any more though. From the looks of tiller he had internal injuries enough to worry about and skip the arm x ray, as they were more difficult to obtain back then. Also, clearly they made dudes tougher back then!
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