Mexican singer loses fingers while waving to fans
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Mexican singer loses fingers while waving to fans
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Mexican singer loses fingers while waving to fans
Associated Press
Sept. 04, 2002 18:10:00
GUATEMALA CITY - Doctors reattached three fingers to the hand of a 16-year-old pop singer after they were severed by a helicopter rotor as he waved to fans.
Ricardo Abarca was getting off the aircraft at a Guatemala City airport on Saturday. In raising his hand to greet fans, he put it into the still-whirling rotor.
"The index finger and middle finger are completely recovered," surgeon Gustavo Lopez said Wednesday. "We only have some problems with blood circulation in the little finger."
Abarca, who had only recently joined the popular teen group Mageneto, was still hospitalized in Guatemala Wednesday.
Mexican singer loses fingers while waving to fans
Associated Press
Sept. 04, 2002 18:10:00
GUATEMALA CITY - Doctors reattached three fingers to the hand of a 16-year-old pop singer after they were severed by a helicopter rotor as he waved to fans.
Ricardo Abarca was getting off the aircraft at a Guatemala City airport on Saturday. In raising his hand to greet fans, he put it into the still-whirling rotor.
"The index finger and middle finger are completely recovered," surgeon Gustavo Lopez said Wednesday. "We only have some problems with blood circulation in the little finger."
Abarca, who had only recently joined the popular teen group Mageneto, was still hospitalized in Guatemala Wednesday.
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Sounds like a PR stunt to me. Knowing a little about helicopters, I can't imagine a "clean" cut from sticking your hand into the rotor, it would be more like blunt trauma which would not leave much to re-attach. Main rotor blades are about 5" think with a pronounced leading edge. I'm not buying it unless it was an RC model.
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Originally posted by 99GT
Would you stand anywhere NEAR a helicopter and put your hands in the air?
Would you stand anywhere NEAR a helicopter and put your hands in the air?
That's what I was thinking, I'm one of those types who would still be ducking, even though I'd know there was about 3-4 feet of clearance above me when standing straight up
