A Guy Turned His Amputated Leg Into a Lamp
Every year at Christmas, people put LEG LAMPS in their windows, like the lamp from "A Christmas Story". But NO ONE'S got a leg lamp like THIS.
53-year-old Leo Bonten of the Netherlands had to have his leg amputated in June, because of a bad infection after breaking his leg in a KIDDIE pool two years ago.
And before the operation, he decided to turn his severed leg into a LAMP. First he had a doctor preserve it. Then he had a lighting designer turn it into a lamp, by fixing it in formaldehyde inside a large cylindrical container.
And then . . . he tried to SELL it. He needed to pay his medical debts, and wanted to help other amputees. So he put it on eBay for $80,000 . . . but they ban the sale of body parts, and pulled his listing. Now he's trying to figure out a way to sell it privately.
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