{"id":750,"date":"2010-01-03T23:26:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T05:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=750"},"modified":"2010-01-03T23:26:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T05:26:44","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-3-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 3, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Unaware Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Japanese motorcyclist failed to notice his right leg had been severed below the knee in a collision with a motorway central reservation, and he travelled a further 2km before spotting he&#8217;d left something behind at the scene. Company worker Kazuo Osada, 54, was on a jaunt with 10 other bikers yesterday when he failed to negotiate a bend. However, he was &#8220;unaware his right leg had been severed below the knee apparently because his attention was focused on the strong pain he felt from the crash&#8221;, according to police. He clocked his loss when he subsequently arrived at a junction, and a fellow biker obligingly popped back to pick up the missing limb. Mainichi reports he was whisked to hospital, but whether surgeons were able to reattach the leg remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/14\/biker_mislays_leg\/\">The Register<\/a><br \/>\nGenerously submitted by: Alastair<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know&#8230; kinda sounds like an urban leg-end to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Unaware Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A Japanese motorcyclist failed to notice his right leg had been severed below the knee in a collision with a motorway central reservation, and he travelled a further 2km before spotting he&#8217;d left something behind at the scene. Company worker Kazuo Osada, 54, was on a jaunt with 10 [&hellip;]<\/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-750","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\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}