http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163730,00.htmlA Kansas man has put his best foot forward — in a bucket of formaldehyde on the front porch. Ezekiel Rubottom, 21, of Lawrence, had to have his clubbed left foot amputated three weeks ago after a lifetime of medical problems. After the operation, he took it home.
"I'm not sick or, like, a danger," he told the Lawrence Journal-World. "I just wanted my foot ... I just figured I'd do with it whatever I pleased."
Rubottom's friends at the house where he's staying don't mind the body part in a bucket, but after a local kid told his parents about it Saturday, the cops came by and confiscated it.
On Monday, Rubottom went with police down to Lawrence Memorial Hospital (search), where he proved to them that the foot was his. Hospital official Karen Shumate said people often keep leftover body parts. "They've had women that want their uterus. People take tonsils. They take appendixes," she told the newspaper. "I think it's unusual that someone would want a foot, but it's within their rights because it's theirs." Now the foot is back on the front porch, where it floats in the bucket along with a porcelain horse and a can of Hamm's beer (search), forming what Rubottom calls "a collage of myself." Two toes have been snipped off as possible gifts to friends.