'Divine intervention': Man carrying own severed arm is saved

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“It had to be divine intervention.' A man who stumbled along a street while carrying his own severed arm was saved by two public workers who saw him and happened to be trained in the use of tourniquets, authorities in Maine said.

“It had to be divine intervention because two of my best guys just happened to be there sanding sidewalks,” said Mary Ann Brenchick, director of Lewiston Public Works. “It couldn’t have been better guys for this kind of situation.”

Witnesses said the man’s arm was cut off Friday near the shoulder, apparently in a workplace accident, theThe members of the public works crew applied a tourniquet while waiting for an ambulance to arrive, according to Lewiston Police Lt. Derek St. Laurent.Investigators followed a trail of blood back to a business where several people said the man had been operating a band saw. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was alerted.

The injured man, whose name was not released, was taken to a hospital and was expected to survive, officials said. It was unclear whether surgeons were able to reattach his arm.

 

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Anyone who has ever seen a band saw has a lot more questions about how someone managed to cut off their own arm with one, *at the shoulder.*

Knowledgeable human intervention.

Wait: in Maine. State of the imaginary yet all-too-real towns of Castle Rock and Derry. StephenKing ...NOW what are you up to?

Yea... thank the sky wizard that severed your arm in the first place than the two good samaritans that saved your life 🤦🏽‍♂️

Divine intervention isn’t real. Coincidence is though.

Divine intervention is a lie. Extreme random good luck happens every day.

'I had to hand it to them, they saved my life*

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