Man tries to cut off his arm

[Homicidalheathen]

Man tries to cut off arm inside Modesto restaurant

last updated: August 30, 2008 05:34:15 PM

A 33-year-old man who tried cutting off his arm inside a busy Denny's restaurant because he believed it would save his life was arrested Friday night, according to Modesto police.

According to Sgt. Brian Findlen, Michael Lasiter, 33, of Modesto had been injecting cocaine in a nearby motel when he thought he had injected air into his veins, which can lead to death.

Findlen said the man believed that if he cut off his arm, he could save himself from dying.

Lasiter entered the restaurant at 1525 McHenry Ave. about 10:15 p.m. and grabbed a butter knife off a customer's table and began stabbing himself in the right arm near the biceps. When that didn't work, he ran into the kitchen and got a butcher knife and started "digging the knife into his arm," Findlen said.

Police arrived almost immediately and isolated the man. A few minutes later, they used a taser to subdue him.

"He wouldn't obey a substantial number of commands and continued to stab himself," Findlen said. "There were some tense moments, but a lot of patrons didn't know what was going on."

Lasiter was arrested and taken to a Modesto hospital to treat severe cuts to his arm.

Findlen has been in law enforcement for 11 years, and said he had "never seen anything like that before."

He said the restaurant closed for the evening to clean up.

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Morbidly funny

[TitsMcGee]

I am slightly amused...

[jynxxxedangel]

Ah, the fractured reasoning of a tweaked-out needle junkie..

What a loser!

I wonder wtf he was doing in a restaurant-- you KNOW he wasn't planning on eating anything, if he was that zooted.

[pomba gira]

Um, if you've injected enough air to actually kill you (I believe it takes about 5cc- a standard insulin syringe is 1cc), it does so pretty much instantly... in a lot of cases an air embolism kills before the victim can get the spike out. Like ODing on cocaine... you either die within 2 minutes or you're gonna be fine. I hate uninformed drug users. Altho this poor bastard was prolly somewhere far on the other side of rational thought...

[Msterbeau]

Somewhat off topic, but there's a Dennys within walking distance from my apartment here in Japan.

[Guest Megalicious]

Thats really awful....

[Oh_My_Goth]

[TrixieGothGirl]

Talk about a dumbass who should've been taken out of the gene pool years ago.

[Homicidalheathen]

Yah thats what I was thinking...it only takes a second for that air bubble to travel, to the heart...someone was not in science class during the human anatomy portion

Talk about a dumbass who should've been taken out of the gene pool years ago.

Quote: It takes blood about one minute to make one complete circuit throughout your body. But this is only for the major arteries and veins. The average person has enough blood vessels, if you include all the venules, arterioles, and capillaries, to go around the world twice. So, then it would take much longer if included them too

Amazing blood facts:

Two million red blood cells die every second.

There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

Seven percent of a humans body weight is made up of blood.

In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood.

Each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumped through the kidneys.

By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.

Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.

The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.

The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days.

Blood accounts for about 8% of a human's body weight.

A woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 liters.

Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.

Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.

If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles

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[Jessika Fxckin rocks (1)]

Wow that takes balls lets all give him a hand

[Simon Bar Sinister]

I read "man tries to cut off his arm" as meaning he was mad at it and trying not to have sex with it.

[Homicidalheathen]

...now thats just sick...

I picture the hash slingers freakin in the kitchen when this guy comes in there, they should get hazard pay

I read "man tries to cut off his arm" as meaning he was mad at it and trying not to have sex with it.

[Rev.Reverence]

I read "man tries to cut off his arm" as meaning he was mad at it and trying not to have sex with it.

[Hellion]

He will end up in prison for attempted suicide,which is a felony in most states.

but yeah that is f%$#ed up.

[taysteewonderbunny]

7% or 8%? Most of the blood statistics were listed twice. That one disagreed with itself. But I imagine there is a range....

Yeah. I'm really glad I stopped using. Thinking and cocaine don't mix.