Fortunately, Baird had an old prosthetic that he can use until the other one can be found or until he gets fitted for a new artificial limb. The 50-year-old said he didn't even hear anybody come into the home, as he took a sleeping pill before placing his leg by the bedside and going to bed for the night.
At 2 a.m., his 15-year-old son woke him up. "I realized right away that my leg was gone," he said. Baird lost part of his leg when at the age of 14 he was run over by a train. The cost of the prosthetic was about $10,000, but it's unlikely it could fetch anything close to that on the black market.
"What are they going to do with a leg? It doesn't make sense," he said. "You've got the money, you've got the pills. But I would like all my ID back. I'd like to have the leg back, too. I'm just a single father raising my two kids by myself."
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That would make me furious if it were me. Prosthetic legs are custom made for the wearer. It often takes weeks or even months of fine tuning to get it right as even the slightest miscalculation can cause pain.
There is no real market for the components as well.
If someone stole mine, when I found the thief I would take one of my old spare legs and shove it up their...well, they'd be known as a tripod after I was done
"...well, they'd be known as a tripod after I was done."
This made me smile.
I can't imagine why these guys would steal the leg. I guess they thoughtt of it as a kind of trophy? Sounds like it would be mostly just a liability to them, as it's kind of easily identifiable, big, and hard to get rid of discreetly.
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