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[Gaborn]

SCOTT Listemann admits he has bad luck with his legs.

"You know the song, 'Born Under a Bad Sign'? It seems to be me," the Poughkeepsie resident said on Thursday.

Listemann shattered his right leg skydiving five years ago, had his lower left leg amputated last November after a truck drove over it, and, a month ago, the prosthetic leg he was using fell off his stump during a skydive and was lost somewhere around the Blue Sky Ranch in Gardiner.

But all his posted "Lost leg" posters and all his media entreaties to look for the prosthetic haven't been able to reunite him with the missing limb.

Listemann said he has hesitated to buy a replacement prosthetic like the one he lost. "They told me it would cost like $12,000," he said. And he still has hopes the missing leg might be found intact because the 19-inch prosthetic was made from sturdy material and should have survived the fall.

"It more than likely did," he said. "it was made out of carbon fiber and titanium."

Also, Listemann was scheduled to get a new prosthetic leg soon anyway, he said. After amputations, stumps shrink and change, and temporary prosthetics like the one he was using usually are abandoned when the shrinkage stops.

"I was about to get fitted soon for my permanent leg, so this kind of happened at - not a good time, but it was a convenient thing," he said.

Also convenient was that no one was hit by the falling leg. Bernadette New, a skydiving instructor at Blue Sky Ranch, said most jumpers aren't allowed to bring any extra items with them "just for that reason. We don't want it to fall and hit someone in the head."

Shoes often fall off jumpers when not tied on tightly, but New doubts there will be any more problems with or restrictions on Listemann next time he jumps with a prosthetic.

"This is an experienced guy," she said. "He does his own thing."

Listemann said hasn't recovered enough yet from the leg amputation to return to his job as a municipal road worker for the town of Poughkeepsie.

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[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

*insert witty leg-related pun*

 

[MrToughPants]

...the prosthetic leg he was using fell off his stump during a skydive...

He really went out on a limb.

 

[sky]

Listemann said hasn't recovered enough yet from the leg amputation to return to his job as a municipal road worker

But he's well enough to go skydiving? Something's afoot.

 

[Struct09]

I bet someone got a kick out of that

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

This is the accident where he lost his legs.... i think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_9ZQaEyTgM

This ones just............ wtf lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug1rCyeNujU

 

[arena08]

He should have put his best foot forward.

 

[koam]

This is the accident where he lost his legs.... i think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_9ZQaEyTgM

This ones just............ wtf lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug1rCyeNujU

OH shit at the first one.

 

[Struct09]

This is the accident where he lost his legs.... i think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_9ZQaEyTgM

I don't think that's his accident. The skydiver in that video instantly lost his limbs, where as the one in the OP had his leg amputated.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

But he's well enough to go skydiving? Something's afoot.

Sounds like he doesn't have a leg to stand on

 

[Chamber]

He should have put his best foot forward.

That was the problem.

 

[fmcato]

Loses his two legs in separate accidents and THEN he loses his prothesis? You must be pulling my leg!

 

[BobLoblaw]

If I were him, I'd jump at the chance to skydive again too.

 

[McLovin]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sgaLxD3wu6M
O.O

 

[SnakeXs]

Looks like he didn't have a leg up on the rest of the divers.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

This is the accident where he lost his legs.... i think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_9ZQaEyTgM

This ones just............ wtf lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug1rCyeNujU

while that was bad, it was dana and jose so no.

I was stationed at Yuma for awhile, got to see the Golden Knights practice. interesting stuff; didn't know about that crash. happened before my time, I guess.

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

Sounds to me like he lost his prosthetic limb while he went skydiving, and now he can't find it.

 

[Chichikov]

It's gonna end up washed up in Vancouver.

 

[adamsappel]

...waiting for Count Dookkake...

 

[StormyTheRabbit]

*insert witty leg-related pun*

 

[arena08]

This guy didn't have a leg to stand on.

edit: agh i was a bit leggy on that one.