Modesto police say a local man who tried to cut off his own arm at a Denny's restaurant thought he had injected air into one of his veins while shooting cocaine and would die unless he took drastic action.
| "I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! I gotta do somethin' drastic! What'll I do? What'll I do? I got it! I'll go to Denny's!" |
The man, identified by police as Michael Lasiter, 33, rushed into the restaurant on Friday night
| Actually, it was on a bike. Damn newspapers can't get anything right. |
and started stabbing himself in the right arm with a butter knife he grabbed from a customer's table, police say.
"Here's yer knife back, Bub!"
"There's... ummm... blood on it." |
When that knife didn't work, Lasiter allegedly took a butcher knife from the kitchen and dug it into his arm.
"Hey! You can't come in here!"
"Gimme dat butcher knife!"
"Okay. But then y'gotta get outta the kitchen. Customers ain't allowed in here. They might hurt themselves." |
Lasiter, who was subdued with a taser
"Don't taze me, bro!"
"Shuddup. Stop stabbin' yerself!" |
and taken to a local hospital with severe cuts,
"What's the matter with him?"
"Tried to cut his arm off at Denny's."
"Put him over there with the other nuts."
"C'mon, you!"
"Don't taze me, bro!"
[ZAP!] "Shuddup." |
told officers he thought he needed to amputate his arm to keep himself from dying from the cocaine injection, says Modesto police Sgt. Brian Findlen. The Denny's closed for the night after the incident.
"I'm sorry, sir! We're closing for the night!"
"Can I finish my Moon Over My Hammy?" |
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