{"id":3698,"date":"2013-03-10T20:49:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T02:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2013-03-10T20:49:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T02:49:29","slug":"mfdj031013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=3698","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For March 10, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Discarded Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A road collision in Brazil has caused outrage after police said a motorist drove off with a cyclist’s severed arm attached to his vehicle. \u00a0The driver, who later turned himself in, told Sao Paulo police that he had dumped the limb in a stream. \u00a0The arm has not been recovered but doctors believe it could have been reattached.\u00a0The cyclist – a window-cleaner on his way to work – is said to be in a stable condition in hospital. \u00a0The accident that saw the cyclist’s arm torn off took place on Sunday morning, March 10, 2013, on Avenida Paulista, one of Sao Paulo’s busiest streets. \u00a0The authorities say the driver, a 22-year old student, will be charged with attempted murder and driving while under the influence of alcohol. However, they haven’t yet decided how to charge him for the disposal of the arm. \u00a0The student says the arm fell into the car after the collision. \u00a0The motorist’s lawyer, Cassio Paoletti, has told BBC Brasil he denies the attempted murder accusation and that his client did not stop for fear of the reactions of witnesses.\u00a0“If he had stayed, they would have killed the boy. For instance, the police station was surrounded by hundreds of people who verbally abused and threw cans at my client’s father, who’s a 60-year-old man,” Mr Paoletti said, adding he would press for serious bodily harm charges. \u00a0A policeman told the BBC the case was still under investigation, but the driver had admitted to throwing the arm into the stream. \u00a0“It has dirty, murky waters, so it might be difficult to find it,” he said, adding that the man was being questioned about the details. \u00a0Police say the motorist was on his way back from a night out when his car hit the window-cleaner. \u00a0After the accident, he reportedly drove a friend home and discarded the arm, before turning himself in.<\/p>\n

Culled from: BBC News<\/a>
\nGenerously submitted by: Katchaya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Discarded Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A road collision in Brazil has caused outrage after police said a motorist drove off with a cyclist’s severed arm attached to his vehicle. \u00a0The driver, who later turned himself in, told Sao Paulo police that he had dumped the limb in a stream. \u00a0The arm has not been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}