July 05, 2006
Is this Indian man Skeletor in disguise?Humor
Filed under “signs of the Kali Yuga,” this next story comes to us from India where crowds are gathering to see a man who is sporting a skull for a hairstyle (via the News Tab):
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I say we expose this villain for who he really is. |
Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off.Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy’s skull came away Sunday after severe burns starved it of blood.
“When he came to us late last year, his scalp was completely burned and within months it came off exposing the skull,” Ratan Lal Bandyopadhyay, the surgeon who treated Roy told Reuters Wednesday.
“Later, we noticed that the part of his skull was loosening due to lack of blood supply to the affected area, which can happen in such extensive burn cases.”
The piece came off Sunday and hundreds of people and dozens of doctors now crowd around his bed, where he lies holding the bone. [Link]
Poor guy. It is bad enough that he got burned but to have people staring and pointing at your skull?? You can’t even put a cast on that thing. At least then you could hope to make friends when people asked to sign it.
Bandyopadhyay said the skull’s inner covering and the membrane which helps produce bone was miraculously unaffected, allowing fresh bone to grow…You may have fooled the others Roy, but I know who you are. That brown skin and somber expression is just a facade for the evil that lurks beneath. When I find my Battlecat I shall come for you.“Doctors say a new skull covering has replaced the old one, but I am not letting go of this one,” he told Reuters.
He intends to keep his prized possession for life and not hand it over to the hospital when he leaves: “My skull has made me famous,” he says. [Link]
abhi on July 5, 2006 03:27 PM in Humor, News, Photos · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post
Ogrish.com has made its name carrying such news stories...
His skull fragment looks kinda like a map of Africa. Although it's probably really derived from Hanuman in some way.
No, no no. It's clearly Jewish. Like a kipah, but this is literally a skull-cap.
One of the best busrides I've ever had involved an entertaining older gentleman who wore the remnants of his hipbone around his neck and gladly expounded on its history. It was helped along by the great tune and inflection which he said, "my hip bone". he played pranks like pretending to lose it at dinner time and then fishing it "out" of his soup bowl.
arrgh Ennis; you beat me to the Hanuman punchline!
Damn it Ennis, you beat me to the punchline. I had an map of Africa all ready to hyperlink too!
"When I find my Battlecat I shall come for you."
Does this mean that you're He-Man, Abhi?
When can we expect some loincloth photos?! :)
Why always (and only) in India?
Seriously though... why do all these weird stories come from India? Does weird stuff like this only happen in India or is it only reported from there? Do we have a couple of renegade reporters with a fanatic obsession with Indiana Jones on our hands?
On a side-note, this quote:
reminds me of this one from the TV show Arrested Development.
Y'know, I understand the mission of this site, but I would've been happy if the editors decided to leave off this one story. Just the one. I know it's about an Indian man, but that doesn't mean you had to post it. I wouldn't have held it against you. Honest!
yeah, this story is really fuckin' with my head (no pun intended). I can't stop thinking about this weird shit. I really can't. It's too bizarre.
Apparently some are debating whether or not it's his skull or his scalp. That somehow is much worse.
Why did you put this story up... why oh why... ruined my life.
That's really, really, gross. What's with the ambivilant expression on his face as he holdls up a part of his skull?
Any story which includes Skeletor is neither a mistake nor a waste.
When I was a kid, my teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up. My first choice was "A Decepticon". Skeletor was a close second. Skeletor Zindabad!!!
Skeletor related YouTube fun for you all:
He Man and the Masters of the Universe versus The Big Lebowski
(NSFW because of language)
Can you please take the picture off - I come here for updates on the blogsite and all I get is stomach heebie-jeebies.
Just like the UFOs in Central USA. Freaking rednecks have something that aliens are looking for
Tutus count?
yeah, I'm still disturbed by it one day later.
Saleem Sinai's face followed the contours of India.
I hear Sandman was better in the original Punjabi.
Abhi of Sepia Mutiny: All men want to be with him, all women want to be him.
i have the power!!!
oh god, i forgot about this one....