Firefighters rescue man with metal ring on penis

[SplitDik (imported)]

This is funny 'cause I'm in OC this week, so this was happening practically next door!

http://dailypilot.com/articles/2009/09/ ... 092309.txt

Resident’s member is saved from ring

Firefighters dodge sparks as they saw through metal ring into which man had inserted his penis. He used the weight in effort to make it longer, but it got stuck for three days.

By Joseph Serna

Updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:52 PM PDT

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In what firefighters described as a once-in-a-lifetime call, officials with the Costa Mesa Fire Department’s Urban Search and Rescue squad were summoned early Tuesday morning to Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach to save another man’s penis from perishing.

The man, whom authorities declined to identify, other than saying that he was in his 50s, had apparently put his penis through the hole of a steel, ring-shaped dumbbell weight fastener, two or three days earlier.

The device got stuck, and he couldn’t remove it. The penis had blackened and swollen to five times its normal size, authorities said. In order to remove the ring, firefighters had to use a saw to cut through it.

“They said his comment was, ‘This will make me the chief of my tribe,’” said Costa Mesa Battalion Chief Scott Broussard, who like others in the department, heard about the incident the next morning.

The man thought the weight from the steel object would make his organ longer, but what he did to it almost rendered it useless, authorities said.

The steel collar-like fastener cut off circulation to the man’s penis, said Capt. Dave Kearley. As a result, blood could not flow out of it, and it swelled to the point that the man couldn’t remove the ring, Kearley said.

Broussard added that doctors at Hoag had told the man, who refused immediate treatment, that if he waited any longer to remove the fastener, the flesh in his penis would die.

“He was kind of a wingnut,” Broussard said.

Staff kept him in the hospital under a psychiatric hold and called the Fire Department to come remove the item because they didn’t have the tools to do it, Broussard said. Medical personnel tied down the man to a table and sedated him for the emergency, he said.

Firefighters had to don full surgery garb, including masks and scrubs.

The men constructed a watering system to keep the sparks from the sawing — which were flying half-way across the room — from injuring the patient as they cut through the inch-thick ring around his penis.

The delicate procedure took two hours.

“They also slid a little piece of metal between the collar and his thing, so if it slipped past it wouldn’t hit his thing,” Broussard said.

If anything, the incident demonstrated the versatility of the city firefighters’ rescue skills, Broussard said.

“If we’re cutting people out of some kind of building, or if we’re cutting right up next to somebody’s flesh and don’t damage his flesh, then it’s a good day,” he said.

[Batman (imported)]

“They also slid a little piece of metal between the collar and his thing, so if it slipped past it wouldn’t hit his thing,” Broussard said.

I find it disturbing that he said "thing" twice instead of penis...

[stewie69 (imported)]

He's lucky they didn't break out the Jaws of Life

[chilliwilli (imported)]

I wonder if they sang http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+ ... 1I7SKPB_en while the sparks flew.

out for a pack of smokes

chilli-

[Hash (imported)]

I suspect that they were not able to save much of his penis. If it had blackened, it was gangrenous and they would have removed it. This is similar to the "hammer head" episode from a week or two ago. Lesson for all: Don't put things you can't remove on your penis.

[moi621 (imported)]

I receive, "The Daily Pilot".

Now it is paying the price.

For choice of words.

For front page placement of the article.

No Win / No Win

For The Daily Pilot

Maybe, it was not news worthy for the Daily Pilot

as it might be for, a tabloid.

Moi

[Riverwind (imported)]

What did you say that mans name was? Stubby?



River

[chilliwilli (imported)]

I suspect that they were not able to save much of his penis. If it had blackened, it was gangrenous and they would have removed it. This is similar to the "hammer head" episode from a week or two ago. Lesson for all: Don't put things you can't remove on your penis.

Hash-

They probably would have removed it though without bothering to take off the ring if it was obviously gangrenous. It took two hours to cut the ring off.(per radio report here) It probably had some circulation left determined by a gas study.

So...How "blackened" was his member? Or was it mostly purple? There's someting about "none of what you hear and only half of what you see".

And then you also have to think of the state of mind of the individual. How many days would he spend boning-up on every medical and welding journal, waiting for Harbor Freight to open Monday morning clutching his 10% off coupon?

I bet 10 to 1 he is fine. Except the penis is fairly complex and he could have some undery8ing vascular damage. You have heard of those reports about priaprism with use of some medication? After such an event, even though the penis is saved there is underlying damage to the vascular structure. The result is impotence.

There just a few standard ring type devices that secure weights on bars. Some are light weight and use a spring-like constriction. These are easliy cut with bolt cutters. Another spins on. This type is wide providing plenty of leverage to twist the collar over a threaded end. A wide collar would have the weight he desired(he was trying to lengthen his penis), but would also have enternal threads and not rest well for long term use. The there is an old school collar. It is cast iron and has a small threaded screw in the side. This type is very heavy and thick! This collar(not really a ring at all) would be impossible to cut with anything other than a grinder or a grinder-type tool fitted with a disc cutter.

So my bet is that he used this old school metal collar.

chilli-

[IbPervert (imported)]

I find it disturbing that he said "thing" twice instead of penis...

I was born in Orange County and lived there for a few years before moving to San Diego. The reason they said, "thing" is that Orange County is a very, very conservative area, so to keep from upsetting regular readers the editor made them use "thing".

[chilliwilli (imported)]

I was born in Orange County and lived there for a few years before moving to San Diego. The reason they said, "thing" is that Orange County is a very, very conservative area, so to keep from upsetting regular readers the editor made them use "thing".

Oh they said "thing". I bet it was his finger then!

chilli-