Pull the other one!

Picture the scene. You're an 83 year old gentleman from Lima, Peru. You've probably taken a tumble off your donkey and landed on a rusty rail, thus rendering one of your legs useless! After a few months of "putting up with it" that leg develops a life threatening ulcer so your daughter takes you to The Alberto Sanogal Hospital where the Doc tells you it has to come off. Ok, I’m getting on a bit and mechanizing a prosthetic at my age will pose some initial difficulty but I’m a healthy bloke so bring it on I say!

So, you start coming around the morning after and you've got that phantom limb feeling, but they warned you about that so you’re not too alarmed, but hold on, WHAT'S THIS!? They've only gone and lopped off the WRONG.ONE. That leg you can 'mysteriously' feel is in fact still there. That plane of duvet was once a mountain of leg. Your leg. Now it’s gone.

"I was shocked when I lifted the sheets and saw they had taken his left leg," the man's daughter, Carmen Villanueva, told Peruvian radio station RPP. Hmmm, REALLY!!? Thankfully, the (ir)responsible doctors who performed the botched operation have since been suspended, whilst the Villanueva family are consulting legal types with a view to sue! Gosh, just think of pimped up wheel chair he could buy if they win!! Totally worth it.