# This week's bizarre medical odditiy. Man turning into a tree.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 14, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369 "2007-11-14T14:41:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/41 "2007-11-14T19:11:09Z")
I feel bad for joking about this guy’s plight. Now I am praying for a myrica.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/42 "2007-11-14T19:20:31Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal]
I feel bad for joking about this guy’s plight.
[/QUOTE]
You mispelled “blight.”
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/43 "2007-11-14T19:22:56Z")
[QUOTE=simster]
How long before this shows up on House?
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My thought as well. Or better yet, the episode of _House_ that **DtC** is currently knocking out.
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/44 "2007-11-14T19:29:08Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
You mispelled “blight.”
[/QUOTE]
Durn, thanks for catching that. I hold no malus towards your help.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/45 "2007-11-14T19:40:24Z")
Some of these jokes really go against the grain.
And I might as well point out, there’s an as yet unrealized woodpecker joke waiting to be told.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/46 "2007-11-14T20:05:25Z")
[QUOTE=tdn]
And I might as well point out, there’s an as yet unrealized woodpecker joke waiting to be told.
[/QUOTE]
That may be because, silly and flippant as we may seem, none of us _really_ want to do the thinking necessary to go _there_. ☹ :eek:
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/47 "2007-11-14T20:16:22Z")
What about the sapsucker jokes? Anyone up for that?
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### Author:  [@FlyingCowOfDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingCowOfDoom)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/48 "2007-11-14T20:21:26Z")
Threads like this are the reason I pay to be here.
Oh, and you’re all going to hell.
–FCOD
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/49 "2007-11-14T20:40:03Z")
It still hurts that someone would get the wrong idea about this thread. I mean, olive everybud-d. Maybe this guy should really get another pinyon. Perhaps some wise sage could help everybody pecan on him. O well, my hearts-a-burstin’ to send some tsuga so he can make lemonade and whatnot.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/50 "2007-11-14T20:43:31Z")
He’s going to win at the Con for that awesome Treebeard costume.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/51 "2007-11-14T20:47:26Z")
[QUOTE=FlyingCowOfDoom]
Oh, and you’re all going to hell.
[/QUOTE]
Not me, I asked for forgiveness from the Elmighty.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/52 "2007-11-14T20:49:43Z")
And in other news, here’s [a tree turning into a person](http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/892248/2/istockphoto_892248_wart.jpg).
How galling.
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/53 "2007-11-14T20:50:48Z")
As bizarre & disturbing as that story - and that picture - was, I was even more put off by the [link](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=UXDXXBXIQKAWDQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/11/14/nbikesex114.xml) on that page to this headline: “Man who had sex _with bicycle_ sentenced.”
With a BICYCLE???
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/54 "2007-11-14T20:51:02Z")
Cherry up, it could have been you.
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/55 "2007-11-14T20:52:03Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman]
As bizarre & disturbing as that story - and that picture - was, I was even more put off by the [link](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=UXDXXBXIQKAWDQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/11/14/nbikesex114.xml) on that page to this headline: Man who had sex _with bicycle_ sentenced.
With a BICYCLE???
[/QUOTE]
Did he derailleur?
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/56 "2007-11-14T21:04:45Z")
I don’t know how this guy copse. I wouldn’t be able to stand it.
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/57 "2007-11-14T21:24:12Z")
Maybe he hedges his bets?
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/58 "2007-11-14T21:32:58Z")
Yo, **Qadgop**? Where are you, dude?
And why does this stuff always seem to happen in Indonesia, or the mountains of Peru? Hell, that 8-legged girl was born in India (not that India is a backwards country, but you never hear of stuff like that happening in Illinois or Paris)
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### Author:  [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/59 "2007-11-14T21:33:00Z")
Has anyone been able to find when it will air on Discovery? I didn’t see a single mention of it on their website.
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/60 "2007-11-14T22:07:53Z")
Maybe it’s been banyanned from broadcast.
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