20-year old man in Bay Area cuts off own penis

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Man Cuts Off Own Penis With X-Acto Knife (Police Believe Bath Salts Not Involved)

By Aaron Sankin

Posted: 06/07/2012 1:56 pm Updated: 06/07/2012 2:51 pm

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That looks partty sharp.

If you watched, or hosted, a late night TV show at any point since the mid-1990s you probably remember the story of Lorena Bobbit.

Bobbit captured the national imagination when she used a kitchen knife to cut off her husband's penis while he slept. That one incident alone paid for at least three of Jay Leno's very expensive cars.

What happened in the typically sleepy San Francisco suburb of Fremont this week was a little different. Fremont police report they responded to a 911 call early Thursday morning to find a 20-year old man who had cut off his own penis with an X-Acto knife.

"Whether it's paper, wood, cloth or any other material, X-Acto knives let you cut through almost anything with precision and ease," X-Acto's website reads.

Detective Bill Veteran told the San Francisco Chronicle that the man, whose name is being withheld, was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. But he's (unsurprisingly) undergoing a psychological examination.

The man's motivation for removing his own genitalia is currently unknown. However, since drugs have been removed as a factor, bath salts--the synthetic substance known to trigger extreme and often violent hallucinations--can likely be ruled out.

Authorities located the severed organ in question and doctors are working to re-attach it.

Cutting off one's own penis, a practice called autopeotomy, is not quite as uncommon as one would think, although in certain cases it can prove fatal. An Indonesian man did it in 2010 after discovering his girlfriend planned on dumping him and marrying someone else. A similar incident occurred in the Philippines the following year when a 39-year old man severed his penis after stabbing his wife.

However, the most striking event in recent memory occurred in London, when a Polish man dashed into a crowned restaurant on The Strand, grabbed a knife from the kitchen, jumped up on a table and sliced off his own penis in full view of all the customers.

Please leave the obligatory "Polish sausage" jokes in the comments.

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That's a hard thing to do, with an exacto knife, but possible. I'm not sure why he did it, but I wonder if he really wants it back? Curious. If I cut my penis off, I'll be sure to hide it or flush it.

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While understanding biology with some modicum of utility may have been useful in my life, such may not be useful in the lives of others, yet that is not something I am competent to grasp in any way whatsoever.

For those who get tissue removal surgery, by whatever means, and who really want to avoid removed tissue replacement, my 1950s college biology laboratory experience reminds me of something.

Fred Waring became the manufacturer of what was known as the Waring Blendor. In addition to its uses for ethyl alcohol concoctions and culinary delight efforts, Waring Blendors were rather standard biology laboratory accoutrements, useful for lysing cells during the heyday of reductionist biology research. Some academic biologists, around the mid 1960s, worked to avoid perishing by publishing papers on microsomes, cell organelles which were isolated from other cell components by "Waring Blendoring" cells. Alas, microsomes are not part of intact cells, or so I believe has been rather well recognized for decades by now. Microsomes are artifacts of "Waring Blendoring" cells so severely that fragments of endoplasmic reticulum form closed surfaces.

I have a pretty strong sense that running removed tissue through a Waring Blendor or a more modern equivalent will ensure that reattachment will not happen.

When there is a will and an achievable method, people are sometimes, but apparently not always, successful.

It may be that using a Waring Blendor (I found one of the very early models, the appearance of which I cannot distinguish from the Blendors in those college biology laboratories at a rummage sale {or, in other parts of the U.S, "tag sale"?} for a few pennies a couple years ago. Blendoring, or, if no Blendor can be found, blendering may prevent reattachment of tissue found after being flushed.

Please do not get any ideas...

[kristoff]

While understanding biology with some modicum of utility may have been useful in my life, such may not be useful in the lives of others, yet that is not something I am competent to grasp in any way whatsoever.

For those who get tissue removal surgery, by whatever means, and who really want to avoid removed tissue replacement, my 1950s college biology laboratory experience reminds me of something.

Fred Waring became the manufacturer of what was known as the Waring Blendor. In addition to its uses for ethyl alcohol concoctions and culinary delight efforts, Waring Blendors were rather standard biology laboratory accoutrements, useful for lysing cells during the heyday of reductionist biology research. Some academic biologists, around the mid 1960s, worked to avoid perishing by publishing papers on microsomes, cell organelles which were isolated from other cell components by "Waring Blendoring" cells. Alas, microsomes are not part of intact cells, or so I believe has been rather well recognized for decades by now. Microsomes are artifacts of "Waring Blendoring" cells so severely that fragments of endoplasmic reticulum form closed surfaces.

I have a pretty strong sense that running removed tissue through a Waring Blendor or a more modern equivalent will ensure that reattachment will not happen.

When there is a will and an achievable method, people are sometimes, but apparently not always, successful.

It may be that using a Waring Blendor (I found one of the very early models, the appearance of which I cannot distinguish from the Blendors in those college biology laboratories at a rummage sale {or, in other parts of the U.S, "tag sale"?} for a few pennies a couple years ago. Blendoring, or, if no Blendor can be found, blendering may prevent reattachment of tissue found after being flushed.

Please do not get any ideas...

A good flush of the crapper will work wonders....

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A good flush of the crapper will work wonders....

Actually, not necessarily. I'm pretty sure there has been at least one case (Kim Tran in Anchorage) who cut off a penis, flushed it down, and it was retrieved and apparently reattached. I think I've heard about at least one other. You look at Bobbit, and they picked it up off the street. The Catherine Becker case recently in Orange County does it "right" -- used the kitchen disposal to make sure it was non-retattachable ..