# 8 limbed child born **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2007, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392 "2007-11-06T08:44:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/41 "2007-11-06T22:28:00Z")
Darn those non-working limbs. Talk about someone born for the multitasking generation. Type an email and text at the same time. Perform a mind-bending rendition of the Hokey-Pokey…the possibilities are numerous 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/42 "2007-11-07T00:19:20Z")
I don’t get how the second body is so complete and yet headless. does it just… sort of peter out? It’s hard to tell in that photo. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/43 "2007-11-07T00:56:01Z")
i read about her today on [cnn.com](http://cnn.com). i thing it is awesome that they flocked to her and considered her blessed to be born. really neat that people would go to her for blessings. most other places and peoples would run in horrour. her parents are very realistic and are really, truely, parents; placing her health and well being over her “earning” potential as a carnival sideshow or religious shrine. just a shame they couldn’t be with her in hospital. great parents, great and very cute kid. thankfully they are shining lights in the in the rather dim world of common sense. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/44 "2007-11-07T01:04:23Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] What so unusual about eight limbs? [/QUOTE] Bwahahaha! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/45 "2007-11-07T01:07:25Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Well, at least she’s Forewarned… [/QUOTE] That’s the most tasteless and heartless statement that I have read and laughed out loud at on these boards in a long time! You should be ashamed. And BRAVO! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/46 "2007-11-07T03:32:39Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine] She doesn’t have arms growing out of her hips - she’s got a partial second body fused to her; a parasitic twin. Take another look at the skeleton drawing in the link. The two bodies are joined at the pelvis. Those things that look like arms coming out of her hips are her own legs. Below that are the arms and legs of the twin. [/QUOTE] Ah, gotcha. _light bulb flickers on_ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/47 "2007-11-07T08:10:27Z")
Isnt’ it just totally bizarre that she happened to be born on the day celebrating Vishnu? ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/48 "2007-11-07T14:24:17Z")
[QUOTE=rocking chair] i read about her today on [cnn.com](http://cnn.com). i thing it is awesome that they flocked to her and considered her blessed to be born. really neat that people would go to her for blessings. most other places and peoples would run in horrour. her parents are very realistic and are really, truely, parents; placing her health and well being over her “earning” potential as a carnival sideshow or religious shrine. just a shame they couldn’t be with her in hospital. great parents, great and very cute kid. thankfully they are shining lights in the in the rather dim world of common sense. [/QUOTE] I’m a little creeped out that they considered her to be blessed. Lucky for her that the deformity happened to make her resemble one of their gods. What if the parasitic twin had been composed of, say, an extra head, instead of extra arms and legs? Like poor little Manar Maged, who was born in Egypt in 2004 with a second head attached to her skull. The extra head could blink and smile. They successfully removed it, but the little girl died about a year later. [(disturbing pic)](http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/maged.asp) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/49 "2007-11-07T14:40:10Z")
[QUOTE=rocking chair] i read about her today on [cnn.com](http://cnn.com). i thing it is awesome that they flocked to her and considered her blessed to be born. really neat that people would go to her for blessings. most other places and peoples would run in horrour. [/QUOTE] This may sound insensitive, but Hindus pray to _a lot_ of beings that I would run from in horror if I saw them in the flesh. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/50 "2007-11-07T15:31:41Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine] I’m a little creeped out that they considered her to be blessed. Lucky for her that the deformity happened to make her resemble one of their gods. What if the parasitic twin had been composed of, say, an extra head, instead of extra arms and legs? … [/QUOTE] [actually..](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/51 "2007-11-07T15:41:28Z")
Apparently her surgery is complete, and was a success: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071107/ap\_on\_re\_as/india\_eight\_limbs](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071107/ap_on_re_as/india_eight_limbs) ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/52 "2007-11-07T15:48:08Z")
> [@from link](#): > > … Her parents kept her in hiding after a circus apparently tried to buy the girl, they said. … ugh ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/53 "2007-11-08T00:34:08Z")
and that is why this girl has good parents… some others would see her as a way out of poverty. considering what can happen to a “normal” girl in some places, this cutie is darn lucky she has the parents she does. i hope the wee tyke does well. looks like there is a hindi god for every conjoined combo… ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/54 "2007-11-08T01:12:25Z")
> [@from the link](#): > > … Her parents kept her in hiding after a circus apparently tried to buy the girl, they said. … Now she’s half off! ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/55 "2007-11-08T02:35:15Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] Now she’s half off! [/QUOTE] Window seat, or aisle? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/56 "2007-11-08T02:46:16Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] … Probably not- they throw them out as biohazardous waste. They wouldn’t even let me keep my wisdom teeth when I had those out… [/QUOTE] They should give them to the parents to bury or cremate, after all they are the remains of their other child. > [@](#): > > In Hindu art, Agni is depicted with two or seven hands, two heads and three legs. In each head , he has seven fiery tongues with which he licks sacrificial butter. Sometimes when I read these descriptions of ancient gods, I can only conclude that ancient humans did lots of drugs. ---
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/57 "2007-11-08T10:41:13Z")
…oh, child **b** orn. Thank god, I read something a little disturbing there at first… Cute kid. I wonder if it’ll take her legs long to adjust into a normal position. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/58 "2007-11-08T12:04:03Z")
[QUOTE=MadPansy64] Window seat, or aisle? 😉 [/QUOTE] I think that calls for being strapped to the outside of the basket. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/59 "2007-11-08T16:23:28Z")
If I was a god, I’d probably sit around licking sacrificial butter all day, too. Especially if it was peanut butter. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392/60 "2007-11-08T17:01:04Z")
[QUOTE=rocking chair] looks like there is a hindi god for every conjoined combo… [/QUOTE] Hindu, please. Hindi is the language. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-limbed-child-born/425392.md?page=4)