# This can't be true: attaching a twin's arm to the other's body... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-be-true-attaching-a-twins-arm-to-the-others-body/261249 "2004-08-24T12:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-be-true-attaching-a-twins-arm-to-the-others-body/261249/1 "2004-08-24T12:32:04Z")
Maybe this is way old, but I just had it [sent](http://www.bmezine.com/news/people/A10101/addsub/) to me. The photo says it was taken in 1999. Twins who surgically removed one arm and re-attached it to the other’s pectoral muscle? WTF? I googled a bit, but found nothing. I just don’t believe it. That is too nuts to think about. Plus the finger is pretty freaky. -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-be-true-attaching-a-twins-arm-to-the-others-body/261249/2 "2004-08-24T13:20:16Z")
Scroll to the bottom and look at the date of the article fercryinoutloud! ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-be-true-attaching-a-twins-arm-to-the-others-body/261249/3 "2004-08-24T14:06:14Z")
Yes, I did say it was way old, but… Anyone ever hear of this? It is a bit outrageous… -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-be-true-attaching-a-twins-arm-to-the-others-body/261249/4 "2004-08-24T14:07:53Z")
the whole date, **Tomcat.** ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-be-true-attaching-a-twins-arm-to-the-others-body/261249/5 "2004-08-24T14:22:04Z")
:smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: And another :smack: just because I do deserve it. Man, I swear I had my coffee this morning. Really, I did. I just kept reading ‘1999’ not the whole date. OK, I’m going to go sit in the corner for awhile. -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-be-true-attaching-a-twins-arm-to-the-others-body/261249/6 "2004-08-24T14:32:57Z")
Bwahahaha 🙂 Sorry, Tom, but that’s priceless. And that’s also one powerful April Fool’s joke, if it still works 5 years down the line. You’ve just earned a beer of your choosing, in Prague, in October. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-be-true-attaching-a-twins-arm-to-the-others-body/261249/7 "2004-08-24T15:34:35Z")
Did anyone else look at the rest of that site? Are any of those body modifications actually done? Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-be-true-attaching-a-twins-arm-to-the-others-body/261249/8 "2004-08-24T16:17:07Z")
As for the rest of it, that site is apparently the largest site devoted to body modification that there is, so I would wager anything not also posted on 1 April is probably real. ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-be-true-attaching-a-twins-arm-to-the-others-body/261249/9 "2004-08-24T19:15:23Z")
As you probably noticed from the date, that page is pretty old. Anyway, if you check the source code for the page, you can see this section, which is commented out at the end of the page: ```auto ``` So, go to [http://www.bmezine.com/news/people/A10101/addsub/fools.html](http://www.bmezine.com/news/people/A10101/addsub/fools.html) if you want to read some of the emails they got.