# Pedestrian hit by car... where is his leg? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 24, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725 "2011-06-24T16:47:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/1 "2011-06-24T16:47:33Z")
A man in Mesa, AZ was hit by a car and seriously wounded, in fact so seriously that his leg was no longer attached to his body. They rushed him to the hospital, where he died, but the question remained, where was the rest of his leg? 5 days later, and after an extensive search they found the leg, on the ROOF of a building 160 feet away from the crash scene. > **[Mesa crash victim's missing leg found on rooftop](https://tucson.com/article_9eca4680-9df0-11e0-8dce-001cc4c03286.html)** > > The missing leg of a pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run crash has been found on the rooftop of a Mesa building near the scene. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/2 "2011-06-24T16:52:17Z")
I once shod a man in Reno just to watch it fly. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/3 "2011-06-24T16:52:53Z")
How fast does the car have to be going to tear a person’s leg off and send it hurtling onto the roof of a building 160 feet away? ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/4 "2011-06-24T17:05:00Z")
Holy crap! > [@lieu](#): > > I once shod a man in Reno just to watch it fly. I’m going to have to ask you to wait outside and think very, very seriously about what you’ve done here. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/5 "2011-06-24T17:38:18Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > How fast does the car have to be going to tear a person’s leg off and send it hurtling onto the roof of a building 160 feet away? Your honour, rumours of this leg have been greatly exaggerated. It was in fact only the flimsy, lightweight, lower half of the leg, a leg of very little standing indeed. If my client had been speeding, surely the leg would not have been found in the near vicinity of the incident. [/defence lawyer mode off] ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/6 "2011-06-24T17:40:32Z")
Maybe an eagle picked it up and dropped it there. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/7 "2011-06-24T17:46:21Z")
Maybe the leg [ran up there.](http://books.google.com/books?id=g_ADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=severed+leg+hops+to+hospital&source=bl&ots=QNSJMeLVCx&sig=Qv_JJl3Meo7ezX7LB8oIJkOKYKU&hl=en&ei=-swETob2KYiusAOEvfTSDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=severed%20leg%20hops%20to%20hospital&f=false) And **lieu** , you’ve been a very, very bad boy. I approve. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/8 "2011-06-24T17:47:38Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Maybe an eagle picked it up and dropped it there. 'e could grip it by the shoelaces. Morbid humor aside…the guy got hit _that_ hard, and still survived long enough to reach the hospital? ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/9 "2011-06-24T17:57:36Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > 'e could grip it by the shoelaces. > > Morbid humor aside…the guy got hit _that_ hard, and still survived long enough to reach the hospital? Not necessarily. If he died en route, wouldn’t he have been pronounced at the hospital? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/10 "2011-06-24T18:02:14Z")
The incident brings a whole new meaning to having a leg up. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/11 "2011-06-24T18:19:08Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Not necessarily. If he died en route, wouldn’t he have been pronounced at the hospital? Quite possible. I was just going by the OP, which indicated that he died at the hospital, but the article doesn’t actually specify. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/12 "2011-06-24T19:10:29Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > How fast does the car have to be going to tear a person’s leg off and send it hurtling onto the roof of a building 160 feet away? This sounds like a job for Mythbusters! ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/13 "2011-06-24T19:17:37Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > How fast does the car have to be going to tear a person’s leg off and send it hurtling onto the roof of a building 160 feet away? > [@Merneith](#): > > This sounds like a job for Mythbusters! I nominate Tory. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/14 "2011-06-24T19:26:11Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > How fast does the car have to be going to tear a person’s leg off and send it hurtling onto the roof of a building 160 feet away? Actually, police are calling it a Hit-and-Run. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/15 "2011-06-24T20:10:49Z")
What a lackluster effort by the authorities. Five days to find the leg? Next time this happens, I expect them to hop to it. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/16 "2011-06-24T20:17:11Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Not necessarily. If he died en route, wouldn’t he have been pronounced at the hospital? Depends upon the state. In Washington, 'medics can declare. many other states, they can’t. Arizona is ahead of the pack in many fire/rescue laws so they may allow it. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/17 "2011-06-24T20:20:05Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > What a lackluster effort by the authorities. Five days to find the leg? Next time this happens, I expect them to hop to it. I was in Colombia many years ago. We were delayed on the way to the hotel because the “rescue” squad was picking up bodies from an accident 3 days before. We’re catching up with the third world? ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/18 "2011-06-24T20:22:38Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > This sounds like a job for Mythbusters! > [@Jenaroph](#): > > I nominate Tory. 😃 > [@lieu](#): > > Actually, police are calling it a Hit-and-Run. ::groan:: Wonder if the driver will hop to a flee. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/19 "2011-06-24T20:24:37Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > This sounds like a job for Mythbusters! Actually I don’t think it would be a hard math problem to guesstimate (simplified of course): [ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs](http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/8190/byebyeleggie.png) I’m going to wager a guess the speed of the vehicle was officially waytoofuckingfast MPH. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725/20 "2011-06-24T20:53:45Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > We’re catching up with the third world? Well, they probably just figured the dingos ate it. But seriously, I doubt many of them thought right off the bat to look on a ROOF. Dear Cecil, Why is that when you find a severed human leg on a roof, its always just one? Don’t people usually loose them in pairs? Sincerely yours Bi Pedal. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pedestrian-hit-by-car-where-is-his-leg/586725.md?page=2)