It’s safe to say that Richard Williams has been suffering from bad luck lately. The 26-year old recently crashed his car into a guard rail, causing the vehicle to flip. EMS workers recovered most of his body, but they couldn’t find his foot. “We looked everywhere,” Bainbridge lieutenant Jon Bokovitz says.
The next afternoon, resident Virginia Woolf was walking her labrador when the dog started barking. When Woolf checked on the commotion, she found the severed foot, still clad with a sock. The foot was quickly sent to MetroHealth, but it was too late to be re-attached…
This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2008.