Human leg lamp in the movie “A Christmas Story”
If you’ve seen the holiday classic, A Christmas Story, then you have a pretty good idea of where Leo Boten might have gotten the idea of turning his amputated leg into a lamp. Sound too strange to be true? It’s not.
If that weren’t enough, Boten tried to sell his lamp on Ebay but the item was turned down since sale of body parts is forbidden on the auction site.
When Leo Bonten, a 53-year-old Dutch man, needed to have his right leg amputated earlier this year because the broken limb became infected, he was inspired to turn his amputated leg into a floor lamp. But this bit of morbid creativity also started a legal battle with the hospital.
Read the full story: A Legal Leg to Stand On
Note: the full story has links to photos of the actual lamp.
