Hospital gives man frozen leg by mistake

[Wolfie]

Horror in a bag: Man's leg

Find limb with effects

BY BRIAN HARMON

DAILY NEWS LONG ISLAND BUREAU CHIEF

The bag from the hospital should have held his recently deceased father's belongings.

But when Christopher Runyan emptied it out on the kitchen table of his Long Island home yesterday, he made a grisly discovery: a human leg.

"It was a leg. It obviously had defrosted," said Runyan, 35, of Center Moriches. "The stench that came out almost knocked me over. I turned totally white."

For Runyan, 35, the ghastly screwup compounded tragedy with horror. His 77-year-old father, Paul, had died Friday at Central Suffolk Hospital barely a week after learning he had cancer.

His first thought was that his father, whose arm was amputated by doctors in a failed bid to save him, had also lost a leg.

But a blue tag hanging from the toe bore the name of a John Jordan, born in 1922. The tag was dated Jan. 13.

Suffolk County Police spent most of yesterday at Christopher and Andrea Runyan's home investigating the bizarre incident.

http://nydailynews.com/front/story/276751p-237045c.html

[DudeAsInCool]

You sure they werent pulling his leg?

[Wolfie]

Maybe they thought he needed a spare?

[Redneck4sure]

Maybe his dad took the extra leg to hospital with him. There's a lot of that going around you know. :)