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SCENARIO: One Leg at the Knee for $10,000,000 Yes/No?

by Terryw
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Ok here is the scenario. $10,000,000 guaranteed cash for one of your legs cut off at the knee. You pick the leg. This would be a professional amputation and they would put you under with proper meds so you had minimal pain.

(Yes or No)

If so what leg, why, and would you do with the money?
  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    LOL.. No.
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  • Profile picture of the author bravo75
    I'd do it for $16,000.
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  • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
    10 million...H'mmm - I'd say that would give me a leg up - but I wouldn't have leg to stand on...

    If you throw in the prosthetic of my choice (and maybe a parrot)...I might consider it !

    The right knee has "tennis knee" anyway...:rolleyes:

    (and with part of the 10 mil, I would set up a foundation to raise money and make prosthetics affordable to people who cannot afford them...)
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  • Profile picture of the author AmadeusEx
    If I were at least 50 would accept.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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    My leg's worth at least $100 Billion+
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    • Profile picture of the author bravo75
      Come on now, Jenny from the block's culito isn't worth that.

      Originally Posted by Jonathan 2.0 View Post

      My leg's worth at least $100 Billion+
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      • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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        She'll probably sell it to you for cheap.

        o_0 ;-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas Wilkinson
    As an amputee I'm really offended by this whole discussion.
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    • Profile picture of the author bravo75
      I am also an amputee, I had a tug of war session with a bench saw and lost... my right index finger.

      Originally Posted by Thomas Wilkinson View Post

      As an amputee I'm really offended by this whole discussion.
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    • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
      Originally Posted by Thomas Wilkinson View Post

      As an amputee I'm really offended by this whole discussion.
      I can imagine.. I'm not an amputee but I completely see where you are coming from.

      I'm sure people who really HAVE lost a limb would be willing to pay that 10,000,000 dollars to get it back.

      So why would anyone be willing to accept that money in exchange for their leg??? Just doesn't make sense man.

      There is some stuff you just shouldnt joke about, and I must say that this is one of them.

      PS: My original "LOL" comment was not because I was laughing or because I found this thread funny, it was more of a "I don't know what else to say..." kind of thing.

      Sorry to hear though.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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        I don't think it was intended to be offensive. People joke about all kinds of things. Just one of those questions people ask for "entertainment."

        Although I'd understand if someone really has lost a limb.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Thomas, this is just an example of what the OT forum has become. :rolleyes:
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    • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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    • Profile picture of the author Thomas Wilkinson
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      Thomas, this is just an example of what the OT forum has become. :rolleyes:
      Yes it has. Its no wonder I don't spend a lot of time on the WF anymore.
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      By the way, the vinegar regimen is working well. Have about a 50% improvement so far. Gets a little better all the time.

      Thomas
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      • Profile picture of the author ThomM
        Originally Posted by Thomas Wilkinson View Post

        Yes it has. Its no wonder I don't spend a lot of time on the WF anymore.
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        By the way, the vinegar regimen is working well. Have about a 50% improvement so far. Gets a little better all the time.

        Thomas
        Excellent
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  • Profile picture of the author bravo75
    I bet you there's a lot of people in the world that would give their right arm for a glass of water. Don't know about the leg though.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    I was gonna say thank Thom for that!
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      I was gonna say thank Thom for that!
      Thanks Kim.
      You know it's kinda funny.
      We all know my passion about Cannabis, yet I'm a bigger advocate for ACV use.
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      • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
        Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

        Thanks Kim.
        You know it's kinda funny.
        We all know my passion about Cannabis, yet I'm a bigger advocate for ACV use.
        How's that old saying go?..."You can can a tuna...but you can't can a bis?
        (or maybe it was something about tuna and pianos...)
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      • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
        Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

        We all know my passion about Cannabis
        Oh hello, I don't believe we've met? hahaha
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        • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
          Originally Posted by Thomas Wilkinson View Post

          As an amputee I'm really offended by this whole discussion.
          I don't blame you. My dad had to have both his feet amputated toward the end of his life due to gangreen caused by kidney failure. Some "conversation starters" are just distasteful. I doubt if the OP intended to offend anyone, but that doesn't make the topic any better.
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          • Profile picture of the author KimW
            Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

            I don't blame you. My dad had to have both his feet amputated toward the end of his life due to gangreen caused by kidney failure. Some "conversation starters" are just distasteful. I doubt if the OP intended to offend anyone, but that doesn't make the topic any better.

            One of my biggest fears.
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            • Profile picture of the author Thomas Wilkinson
              Originally Posted by KimW View Post

              One of my biggest fears.

              Tell me about it. There is so much damage to my right leg that the circulation is on the very bottom of normal and sometimes not even that.
              Add to that is my upcoming 65th birthday. Wanna guess what i think about when I wake up in the middle of the night?

              Thomas
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            • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
              Originally Posted by KimW View Post

              One of my biggest fears.
              Kim, his was a bit of an unusual case. He was a hard drinker all his life; and for a couple of decades he had circulation problems in both legs after breaking his back in a construction accident (he fell 110 feet when a manlift cable in a grain elevator broke). He was also in his 80's when he had to have the amputations.

              I don't mean to trivialize your concerns, I just thought it might help alleviate a smidgeon of it to know the other contributing factors.
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    I know we are hijacking this thread,but I still have trouble actually finding good acv here.Most stores here seem to carry white distilled only.
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      I know we are hijacking this thread,but I still have trouble actually finding good acv here.Most stores here seem to carry white distilled only.
      Useless thread anyways
      I'm not to surprised. I noticed when I travel that supermarkets are different everywhere. The Hannafords by me has a section in every aisle for organic products.
      Here's a link to the Braggs website.http://www.bragg.com/
      They have an online store and a store locator (under About Braggs, and under Products).
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    Thanks Thom, I guess I'm going to have to ask for help finding it,because it says its at all 3 of the local stores near me. Will report back if I find it!
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas Wilkinson
    I was so upset by the OP I forgot who it was suggested that vinegar thing. I have to go all the way across Tampa to get Braggs but its worth it. (This thread needed hijacked.)

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      Originally Posted by Thomas Wilkinson View Post

      I was so upset by the OP I forgot who it was suggested that vinegar thing. I have to go all the way across Tampa to get Braggs but its worth it. (This thread needed hijacked.)

      Thomas
      Don't get overly upset at the OP Thomas. Remember the post about the kid who sold a kidney for an iPod? People do crazy things for the almighty dollar. People kill for the almighty dollar.

      So while this question might have been astounding for someone who's lost a limb, it's not that far out of whack with what many humans have become. Scientists say the species is splitting into two now. The one half is devolving into a lower species. So we have subhumans now among us. I think anyone who would sell a body part for money kinda tags which half of the species their genes belong to.
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  • Profile picture of the author albertosm
    i'd say yes, my left leg is already broken
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  • Profile picture of the author dagaul101
    10 million for a knee would entice many people, first thing ofcourse would be a prosthetic state of the art, then a luxury condo suited for a dude with one leg
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  • Profile picture of the author JoeUK
    Hell no, money is worthless in comparison to your body. If you really want millions set about getting with both legs
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  • Profile picture of the author LeighAnna
    I am an amputee, myself. I s'pose that I don't find the question as being rude, out of step or without couth. If the person presented it is/was/are/am an amputee, of which they very well might be (though I doubt it 'cause they'd know there's NO price you could or would put on a limb or appendage...we just want the dayum thing/s back, by gosh), there's no reason to be offended. I found some of the prices people stated as being funny, actually.

    If you can't laugh at yourself, or other humans when they're saying what they say or feel, then a sense of humor IS out there. Trust me on that! You can't buy one but they can be found and put into good use...I'll even let you borrow mine during my PMS part of the month.

    Politically correct is boring. There's a line between hurting, being hurtful, meanness and trying to see what reaction you might get from other folks if they were nutty (and stupid) enough to give a limb in the name of the Benjamin's, green backs...yep, there is a line indeed.

    An ending statement and opinion? There could never be a cap put onto the amount us folks who're missing body parts WOULDN'T pay to get them back & intact; making us intact once again.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sunfyre7896
    I would do it. I could then buy a prosthesis, which by the way have come a long way, and then I'd also have millions of dollars to pay off my debts, buy a new house, buy a new car, not have to work and worry and scrape by, and I'd have piece of mind. Yes, I'd miss my left leg, but I'd be set up for life, making smart decisions and choices. And yes, this would be smart to me, giving me all of the above things/reasons.

    And I suppose I'm a lower genetically devolving human according to some. Receiving security versus a risk of staying poor isn't really a choice for some. I've never had a lot of money and neither has my family. I suppose it is one of those cultural and socioeconomic stances where people that have had some money are more likely to turn money down, yet the poorer some people have been, the more they'll do for money.
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