AUDIO: WOMAN WANTS TO MAKE HANDBAG OUT OF HER OWN SKIN
A woman from Manchester, England, is trying to find a designer who will make her a handbag out of the skin from her amputated leg. Joan, who did not give her last name (* But it’s probably “Lecter”) posted the bizarre request online. The 55-year-old revealed she had peripheral arterial disease, and is going to have her lower left leg amputated. She’s read about scandals where they just dumped body parts in a dump to rot and doesn’t want that to happen to her. Then she had a “lightbulb moment” about using the skin from her leg to make a purse. The hospital said it was okay, and now she is trying to find someone willing to take on the job. She says she wants a medium-sized handbag with a short strap and a section down the middle that will be made from her skin and the rest will be made with another material. Joan is now looking for someone who knows how to preserve skin into a leather-like product.
* Lady, your skin will not be leather-like. It will be leather.
* Trolling the internet for someone who makes things out of human skin. What could go wrong?
* Why not turn the leg into a lamp, like in “A Christmas Story”?
* Let her do it. It’s no skin off my nose.
* Don’t forget to put the foot on a beach in British Columbia.
CLIP: A minute of creepy music from “Silence of the Lambs”.
