Question for Boston people...

[The Dope]

Ok, so my friend Fred from Westford was telling me just now at lunch that one time in Boston he saw what basically amounted to a head with arms sitting in an electric wheelchair. He said it was the most shocking and perplexing thing he'd ever seen, but he was having trouble actually describing what he saw because of the absurdity/tragedy of it.

So have any of you seen a head sitting on a wheelchair wheeling around Boston? I told him I'd ask, to see if we could get any verification.

 

[minxnim]

omg that's nuts seriously my brother IL swears after a lecture at MIT he left and saw a head with like just shoulders and arms. maybe it was the same person. he still talks about it whenever he smokes weed or takes mushrooms.

 

[The Dope]

His response to seeing preppy's response:

"See I told you guys, it's not made up!"

 

[xfer]

oh my god.

no and i NEVER WANT TO.

 

[xfer]

 

[minxnim]

my BIL didn't take a job at bose and once when he was all wasted he said it was because of the 'head and arm thing' but he didn't want to talk about it.

 

[minxnim]

i forwarded this thread to my bil at work and he wrote back with only this 'great. it's still alive'

 

[The Dope]

I KNEW somebody on here must at least know somebody who had seen it!

 

[minxnim]

that's reallllllly weird that i even remember him talking about it. especially since my sister now says he refuses to ever talk about it anymore! the head/arm thing!

 

[The Dope]

When my friend started talking about it, it took a few minutes for him to actually describe what he saw because he had to fight through what seemed to be a combination of laughing and crying.

 

[The Dope]

It's one of those things you don't know how to take, because it sounds so absurd, and the fact that it apparently is reality for someone is so difficult to fathom.

 

[minxnim]

same with matt. he's a straight laced normal guy. i dont think he could really handle that he saw "it". he said one of thier friends that saw it with them says they never saw "it" and denies it entirely.

 

[xfer]

my co-worker hasn't seen it, but she did see a show once where this exact thing happened. a guy was riddled with cancer, and they offered him the option of losing everything below his shoulders and he...took it.

 

[The Dope]

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[xfer]

i did a search for "only a head" "boston".

 

[The Dope]

my co-worker hasn't seen it, but she did see a show once where this exact thing happened. a guy was riddled with cancer, and they offered him the option of losing everything below his shoulders and he...took it.

I honestly have trouble understanding how somebody can remain alive with so many of their vital organs missing! Like, breathing, pumping blood, digesting food... these things aren't important anymore? It would seem like you'd have to be hooked up to an elaborate life support system 24/7 and wouldn't be able to go driving around Boston in your wheelchair.

 

[minxnim]

my guess is that the person has their entire lower body cavity intact but that it just appears that they do not by how they are positioned?

 

[minxnim]

 

[The Dope]

I guess that's possible. I'd have to see it to really understand though.

 

[minxnim]

i mean, yea... matt swears there was NOTHING but the head shoulder and arms.... !!!!