A St. Paul man, complaining of chronic pain, wanted to have his testicles removed. When conventional medical staff refused to do the job, he hired other "professionals" to take off his testicles, according to a search warrant affidavit filed Monday in Ramsey County District Court.
There are a few cases like this in the medical literature: people who are convinced that removing their testicles (or less commonly, their adrenal glands) will solve either their chronic pain or their 'self-image' problems. Usually they do the surgery themselves with local anesthetic and a mirror.
Two or three people operated on the man, Russell Daniel Angus, 62, a couple weeks ago at his home in St. Paul. He was unconscious during the surgery, and when he woke up, his testicles had been removed.
"Doctor, the operation was a success!"
"It was indeed! Thank goodness I slept in a Holiday Inn last night!"
And the "professionals" were gone.
"No no, no need to thank me. Toodles!"
His groin area was bleeding heavily, so he called his daughter.
"Dad! You WHAT?!?!"
"I'll explain later, but could you get over to the Holiday Inn real fast?"
She called for help.
"Hello, 911? You're not going to believe this."
"Try us, lady, we hear all sorts of weird stuff."
"Someone removed my Dad's testicles, and he's bleeding heavily."
"Someone tries to remove my testicles and I guarantee you lady, he'll be bleeding heavily."
"No, that's not what I mean."
"Okay, you're right, I don't believe you."
When police arrived, they found a makeshift operating room set up in the upper level of the Holiday Inn house. There were bright lights, an apparent operating table, medical supplies and equipment, and a camera.
Sounds like the set of 'Saw 4'.
Angus was still bleeding, and there was blood in the living room, hall and bathroom, the affidavit said.
Just how many rooms did they operate in?
He was taken to Regions Hospital. Since then, St. Paul police have been looking for the people behind the surgery, suspecting that it was an illegal medical procedure. You don't say!
That's why they're police, you know.
Only those licensed to practice medicine in Minnesota may perform a medical procedure here.
Blasted politicans, always interfering, man just wants his family jewels pickled and put in a jar, but no-o-o-o-o-o, he's got to go to a regular quack for that.
Angus wouldn't say who the mysterious practitioners were, telling police that he didn't want to get them into trouble.
"All I asked them to do was pickle me jewels. That's not a crime, is it?"
His soon to be ex wife, Anna Marie Angus, told police that her husband spends a lot of time on the Internet ...
Golly gee, I hadn't associated pr0n downloads with a desire to remove one's testicles.
... and uses a computer kept in a lower-level bedroom. She said he uses that room because he has limited mobility.
"Especially now. He's kind of sore, you know?"
The daughter told police that she didn't want them to search her father's house, the affidavit says.
"Look, it's okay, let's drop the whole thing, 'k?"
"Too late lady, you made the call."
Police searched the home in the 600 block of York Avenue on July 28, looking for a list of items including blood, medical instruments, fingerprints, documents discussing medical procedures, computers, and testicles.
His or someone else's?
Court documents show they seized three specimen jars, medical supplies, a camera, a computer CPU, and other items.
"Hey Muldoon, check out this pic on the camera!"
"Oh geez, put that down, you'll go blind!"
"Based on my knowledge and experience, I know that it is not common or usual for a licensed medical practitioner to perform surgery in the non-sterile environment of a private home," wrote Sgt. Richard Munoz, in court documents.
Cut right to the heart of it. Nice going, Muldoon!
"I also know that it would be highly unusual, unprofessional and likely negligent for a licensed medical practitioner to perform surgery and then leave a patient before the patient recovered from anesthesia and/or fail to provide immediate follow-up care."
We usually stick around until the insurance forms are completed.
St. Paul police spokesman Tom Walsh said he has seen a lot in his years on the force, but this case is remarkable. "I have never in my life seen anything quite like that."
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Most incidents of this nature can be attributed to one of two things, money or sex. I suspect in this particular case, we can safely rule out the latter.
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This sort of psycho-lunacy goes a lot farther than just dingleberries. One woman was so convinced that her life would be much better without legs thatafter surgeons refused her request to remove both lower appendagesshe packed both legs in dry ice to cause frostbite induced gangrene.
The offending members were then removed and she is now a happy cripple.
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The Actor's name is Jack Elam. Don't know the movie.
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Jack Elam:
"The heavy today is usually not my kind of guy. In the old days, Rory Calhoun was the hero because he was the hero and I was the heavy because I was the heavy - and nobody cared what my problem was. And I didn't either. I robbed the bank because I wanted the money ... I've played all kinds of weirdos but I've never done the quiet, sick type. I never had a problem - other than the fact I was just bad."
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The pathological desire to have arms and legs removed has been discovered to not be as rare as you might think. The Internet has drawn a lot of such people together, leaving the medical community with a bizarre problem.
In South America, a surgeon working at a mental hospital had no fewer than four patients who were obsessed with having a healthy leg removed. They were so distraught that they could not function in society. They were basket cases who did not respond to any modern psychiatric treatment.
So after considerable anguish by him and the medical staff, he removed a leg from each--which was a profound cure for their insanity! All four were able to resume normal lives with their families, exhibiting no further trace of their mental illness, except for one, who was still not quite right and needed follow up.
He was convinced that he also needed to lose his other foot. Not the whole leg, just the foot. But with drug therapy, he was able to overcome the strong desire; whereas before drugs were ineffective. A psychosis willing to compromise?
POLICE in the Baltic state of Estonia stopped a man who was driving erratically on the weekend, only to find he was blind.
The 20-year-old was driving in the southern city of Tartu early Sunday helped by instructions from his 16-year-old passenger.
"At first they thought he was just drunk, but the man kept missing the tube for the breath test, then they realized he was blind" and arrested him, Tartu Police spokeswoman Marge Kohtla said.
A MAN who was accused of having sex with a sheep has walked free because the animal was unable to testify. The man, from Haaksbergen, near Utrecht in the Netherlands, was reported to police after a farmer caught him having sex with a sheep.
But the case was thrown out of court as the sheep couldn't take to the stand to testify that it didn't want to have sex and had suffered emotional stress.
Under Dutch law, bestiality is not a crime unless it can be proved the animal didn't want to have sex.
"Short of putting the sheep in the dock, at the moment these perverts cannot be prosecuted," animal rights campaigner Jos van Huisen said.
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It didn't take long, though, for the comments below the story to blame Bush, Cheney et. al.
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tragic yes, also a very stupid decision by the cops involved doing something like this. they should be prosecuted just like any one else would be and screw the paid leave. Fire them
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Incompetent and irresponsible. When I was a Police Officer they used to drill into us to check our backstop, and never to fire without knowing what was behind the target. Unbelievable.
A Tel Aviv pub was ordered to pay NIS 2,500 in compensation to a plaintiff who sued the business in small claims court, Israel Radio reported on Monday. The judge dismissed claims made by the business that smoking was a natural part of the bar experience. The prosecutor emphasized that the court's ruling was an important precedent.
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The Rhinoceros party is trying to fight its way back from political extinction with a $50-million lawsuit against the federal government.
Self-appointed party president Brian "Godzilla" Salmi filed suit in Federal Court in Montreal Tuesday over the 14-year-old election reform laws that stripped the Rhinos of registered party status.
Salmi says he will run under the Rhino banner in a federal byelection in Montreal's Outremont riding, slated for Sept. 17.
The party lost status after federal electoral reforms came into effect in 1993 requiring parties to run candidates in at least 50 ridings at a cost of $1,000 each.
Salmi promises to rename the country Nantucket, if elected.
He has legally changed his name to Satan and, officially, the lawsuit is filed under Satan versus Her Majesty The Queen.
The owner of Tarrasco Steel, a company that supplied workers on the Biloxi Bay Bridge, was arrested and charged with hiring illegal immigrants on projects in three states. Some had improper welding certification.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Jose S. Gonzalez, 32, at his office in Greenville Thursday, according to a news release. Tarrasco Steel was hired as a subcontractor for rebar installation services to major bridge projects in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. The federal government considers those bridges as critical infrastructure, and they were part of routine inspections of facilities that if damaged could pose a threat to national security and public safety.
There is a serious public safety concern when illegal aliens, who are not authorized to work in the country legally, and who do not possess valid welding certifications, are employed in the construction of bridges in our communities, said Michael A. Holt, special agent in charge of the Customs Office of Investigations in New Orleans, in a news release.
Homeland Security Chertoff's Lettuce Farmers. So much for our homeland security, people died.
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so a little e. coli spread by bad / no-existent hygiege wasn't enough, huh? now the building of unsafe bridges. maybe they should work on that one destined for Alaska......
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There is a serious public safety concern when illegal aliens,... are employed in the construction of bridges in our communities,
I'm sure they're just doing those high paying, highly skilled construction jobs you can't get an American to do at the low wage Tarrasco is paying.
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Steve, you are exactly right. The big lie about illegal aliens is that they are doing work that Americans won't do. It's a lot closer to the truth to say that Americans need not apply.
Rescue teams are working to free six miners trapped after a tunnel in a coal mine gave way in the western US state of Utah, local authorities said. The collapse at the Genwal mine at about 0400 (0900 GMT) was so powerful it was mistaken for a small earthquake.
Scientists later said a 4.0 magnitude seismic recording was actually caused by the disturbance at the mine, the Associated Press news agency said. The mine is 140 miles (225km) south of Salt Lake City.
Emery County sheriff's office said: "Rescue workers are on scene trying to locate six miners that are unaccounted for." No contact had yet been made with the miners, who were thought to be 1,500ft (457m) below ground.
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The upside is that the company has a policy of stashing food and water supplies, near underground worksites. The downside is that the collapse in the tunnels is major.
#3
Saw Fox News at noon. The Utah official said there was a 4.0 earthquake that caused the colapse. The colapse itself caused a 3.4. That's what was reported unless I misunderstood. Which is possible.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
It doesn't get much stranger than this.
POLICE in the Baltic state of Estonia stopped a man who was driving erratically on the weekend, only to find he was blind.
A MAN who was accused of having sex with a sheep has walked free because the animal was unable to testify. The man, from Haaksbergen, near Utrecht in the Netherlands, was reported to police after a farmer caught him having sex with a sheep.
A Tel Aviv pub was ordered to pay NIS 2,500 in compensation to a plaintiff who sued the business in small claims court, Israel Radio reported on Monday. The judge dismissed claims made by the business that smoking was a natural part of the bar experience. The prosecutor emphasized that the court's ruling was an important precedent.
Rescue teams are working to free six miners trapped after a tunnel in a coal mine gave way in the western US state of Utah, local authorities said. The collapse at the Genwal mine at about 0400 (0900 GMT) was so powerful it was mistaken for a small earthquake. 
