MAIDEN, N.C. - People leave some interesting things behind in a storage facility. Just ask the Maiden police, who say this is one of the strangest cases they've ever seen. The owner of a storage facility auctioned off abandoned items today, and among them was a smoker.

The man who purchased the smoker opened it up and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg.

Police determined the leg went from the foot to about 2-3 inches above the knee.

Investigators traced the smoker back to the original owners of the storage unit and contacted the mother and son.

The mother explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery. The mother said her son plans to drive to Maiden to reclaim his amputated leg.

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At first I thought it might had been about a cannibal. Still pretty nasty.

I want to know what made him want to keep his amputated leg in the first place...

They must have been throwing in free sample's, wonder what else he lost in the crash, buy's bar fridge..... oh thats so wrong. sorry

Hmmm throw in some sweet hickory chips and you have one tasty piece of leg. Ewwwwww

I didn't think it was legal to keep such a large body part, even if it is your own. As I recall, most countries have laws against such things.
Oh sure, you can keep a tooth the dentist pulls.
And I once read of a guy who had a heart valve replaced and asked for the old, defective valve. He was an angler, so when he recovered he put his heart valve on a hook and caught a fish with it as bait! He was going for some kind of record; I don't know if Guinness accepted it or not.
Saving a leg?
Too creepy for me. Sumpin's wrong with dat boy ...

Placentas too

People are just too too weird and a bit wacko

Your right and they seem to be getting stranger all the time! Is there something happening to our environment to cause all this crazyness? I,m really beginning to wonder!

i have a titanium rod that was in my leg for 4 years. it had to be replaced, so i kept the old one. i also have 6 (#9 bird shot) shotgun pellets that were removed from me when i got shot in a hunting accident about 14 yrs. ago that i kept. however, to keep an actual body part seems too freaky for me.

Okay, I guess I'm really morbid, but I think it's kinda cool. I couldn't do it, but I think it would be funny as hell to go into somebody's house and see like one of those "leg lamps" like on A Christmas Story. You'd be standing there checking it out and they'd tell you that it's THEIR leg and they took it to the taxidermist. I think it be a really cool conversation piece.

Maybe, He could sue... but from a legal perspective I don't think he's got a leg to stand on.

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