# Random, dismembered limbs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629 "2016-07-11T03:35:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/1 "2016-07-11T03:35:52Z")
I was thinking about coming up with something (not sure if in stage, fiction or film format) about severed limbs being discovered in different areas (with cryptic notes?) in a community/section of town/subdivision. Feet are discovered first, then lower legs, then upper legs, and accordingly, working upwards. Not sure yet if said limbs are from the same body. Then I’m realising there’s probably books or films covering this ground, and if anyone knows, drop a line here, so I don’t waste my time developing something that’s already been done. Severed limbs only, so we can avoid references to the film “Seven”, and we can avoid going down the stupid Luka Magnotta road. ETA - Also The Black Dahlia thing - we can skip that. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/2 "2016-07-11T03:47:06Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > I was thinking about coming up with something (not sure if in stage, fiction or film format) about severed limbs being discovered in different areas (with cryptic notes?) in a community/section of town/subdivision. Feet are discovered first, then lower legs, then upper legs, and accordingly, working upwards. Not sure yet if said limbs are from the same body. > Then I’m realising there’s probably books or films covering this ground, and if anyone knows, drop a line here, so I don’t waste my time developing something that’s already been done. > Severed limbs only, so we can avoid references to the film “Seven”, and we can avoid going down the stupid Luka Magnotta road. > > ETA - Also The Black Dahlia thing - we can skip that. Season 1 of Dexter deals with a murderer who dismembers victims and leaves their parts to be found. But I think the whole body is found at once, can’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/3 "2016-07-11T04:04:24Z")
Something like that happened in real life, in the mountains north of Los Angeles. A hiker found a limb, and, a little later, someone found another. For a while, people were engaging in wild surmises. ETA: Anyway, who cares if it’s been done before. Do it your way! Tell your story or make your movie, or whatever. Put your originality into the details. There aren’t any “new idea” in terms of broader concepts, but you can surely come up with some details no one has ever used before. Go for it! Creep us out! (You know we love it!) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/4 "2016-07-11T04:05:57Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Something like that happened in real life, in the mountains north of Los Angeles. A hiker found a limb, and, a little later, someone found another. For a while, people were engaging in wild surmises. Was that the case where someone thought they’d shot a squirrel, but found it was a human’s severed lower appendage? And the detective on the scene declared, “The game is a foot!” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/5 "2016-07-11T04:19:11Z")
…forgot to mention that this would take place over a period of time that I’m not exactly sure how long for. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/6 "2016-07-11T05:33:21Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > …forgot to mention that this would take place over a period of time that I’m not exactly sure how long for. …and all the limbs are fresh indicating the victim is being kept alive while being dismembered piecemeal. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/7 "2016-07-11T05:37:39Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Was that the case where someone thought they’d shot a squirrel, but found it was a human’s severed lower appendage? And the detective on the scene declared, “The game is a foot!” ooooo, this gives me a headache ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/8 "2016-07-11T05:43:11Z")
Maybe a childrens book? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/9 "2016-07-11T06:11:57Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Was that the case where someone thought they’d shot a squirrel, but found it was a human’s severed lower appendage? And the detective on the scene declared, “The game is a foot!” C’mere. Over here. Closer. Sh… YA KNUCKLEHEAD! (Three Stooges slap.) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/10 "2016-07-11T19:48:16Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > …and all the limbs are fresh indicating the victim is being kept alive while being dismembered piecemeal. Good one! Too bad Darren McGavin probably doesn’t check out SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/11 "2016-07-11T21:00:13Z")
Reminds me of the [13 severed feet](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/02/11/severed-foot-candian-beach-british-columbia-dismembered/80225882/) that have washed ashore in the Pacific Northwest since 2007. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/12 "2016-07-11T21:01:39Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Maybe a childrens book? I was thinking a pop-up scratch-and-sniff book, but yeah, your idea works as well. More literary, will get the kids to read. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/13 "2016-07-11T21:24:27Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I was thinking a pop-up scratch-and-sniff book, but yeah, your idea works as well. More literary, will get the kids to read. Maybe a companion book to **The Very Hungry Caterpillar**? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/14 "2016-07-11T22:14:43Z")
everywhere! Thousands of them! Actually, for full randomness, make them numbered. The sick bastard dismembering people is also branding random numbers on them before dropping them. And then the hero’s sidekick will find, let’s say, a left arm with the number 2 and thoughtlessly say “Looks like he dropped a deuce over here.” :rolleyes: Well, OK, maybe not. It probably wouldn’t work out as well in print as it did in my head. Carry on.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/15 "2016-07-11T22:18:44Z")
There was a 1982 slasher movie called PIECES sort of along those lines. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/16 "2016-07-11T23:12:18Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > everywhere! Thousands of them! Actually, for full randomness, make them numbered. The sick bastard dismembering people is also branding random numbers on them before dropping them. kinda like that idea - or maybe they can be symbols like runes or the lululemon symbol? > [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > There was a 1982 slasher movie called PIECES sort of along those lines. Looks promising! 2 trailers, the second one NSFW and hilarious: AND they have the full movie, too.............tempting! ---
**Author:** ![Goofus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Goofus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/17 "2016-07-11T23:56:10Z")
“Deadpool Kills the Voltron Universe” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/18 "2016-07-11T23:56:53Z")
Well, if we’re talking about rabbits, squirrels, mice and birds, this sounds a whole lot like my yard. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t stumble across some grisly dog-crime scene with scattered appendages. Filthy, lovable, cruel bastages! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/19 "2016-07-12T16:27:36Z")
“Give my leg parts to Broadway… Dismember me to Herald Square…” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-dismembered-limbs/759629/20 "2016-07-12T23:56:18Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > “Give my leg parts to Broadway… > Dismember me to Herald Square…” Making it into a musical? That would have to be a second film/play. And anyway Ethel Merman’s dead, long ago.☹