MAN HAS HIS OWN SEVERED LEG PRESERVED

Back in July, in Toronto, Canada, 24-year-old Justin Fernandes was walking home from work when he was struck by a motorcycle. The impact severed his right leg. After his accident, Fernandes posted a message on an internet page dedicated to taxidermy and made a joke about having his severed leg stuffed. The comment got a response from the Prehistoria Natural History Centre in downtown Toronto. The Centre routinely taxidermies animal skeletons for display purposes. They said they could take his leg, remove all the fleshy parts, and give him the bones, reassembled. It took some permitting and persuading of officials, but Fernandes now has the skeletal bottom part of what used to be his right leg and foot, fully assembled, including the bones shattered in the accident. Emotionally, he says, “I have to remind myself that, ‘Hey, that’s your leg, you walked on that,’” he said. “It’s hard.” The next problem, he says, is figuring out where to display it.
* Maybe in a foot locker?
* In the cabinet with the rest of the bone china?