Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg

[temi]

A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for 2 km (1.2 miles), leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb.
The 54-year-old office worker was out on his motorcycle with a group of friends in the city of Hamamatsu, west of Tokyo, on Monday, when he was unable to negotiate a curve in the road and bumped into the central barrier, the Mainichi Shimbun said.
He felt excruciating pain, but did not notice that his right leg was missing until he stopped at the next junction, the paper quoted local police as saying.
The man and his leg were taken to hospital, but the limb had been crushed in the collision, the paper said.

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[dhscott]

Oww!! I was just about to go for a run! I've got to get that image out of my mind now

[temi]

Yes, its something you can easily lose without knowing

[OldDarkstarAccount]

this news sounds just like the biker just lost his key or something like that.

Is it possible to not notice that you don't have a leg ?

[temi]

maybe he has and increadible tolerance of pain.

[OldDarkstarAccount]

Indeed increadible tolance. I know just one man who trained since he was a kid to a kind of martial arts , I don't know the exact name of the style he does. He is able to rezist to pain and to concentrate well.

But I wouldn't see any of us having such a great tolerance of pain.