A Japanese man driving a motorcycle severed his right leg after colliding with a concrete highway divider but did not notice the injury until after driving for a few minutes and two kilometers (1. 24 miles) away from accident site, the local media in Japan reported on Wednesday. The accident happened at Nishi Ward in the city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan. According to Japan Today, police said Kazuo Nagata, 54, was driving along the Hamana bypass of National Highway Route 1 at about 6:30 a. m. on Tuesday (9:30 p. m. , Monday, GMT) when he failed to negotiate a left turn and hit the central divider that severed his right leg about 10 centimeters (3. 94 inches) below the knee. Nagata continued driving unaware of the injury and only noticed his missing right leg when he and his friends stopped at an interchange about 1. 24 miles from the scene of the accident.

Police in St. Paul, Minn. is looking out for a group of medical "professionals" who removed a 62-year-old man's testicles at a surgery in his home. The man, whose identity was not revealed, turned to the "professionals" after conventional medical professionals refused to remove his testicles when he approached them with chronic pain.

A 41-year-old fire fighter from New Zealand considers himself lucky to have survived a red-hot steel rod that was fired into his helmet from an exploding vehicle. Gary Wright, who was getting ready to fight a blaze earlier this month, was hit in helmet-covered head by the steel rod, which was traveling at such speed that it punched a hole through a steel door, The New Zealand Herald reported.

World hot dog eating champion, Takeru Kobayashi, was diagnosed with jaw arthritis during his training for the July 4 Nathan's Famous hot dog eating event in New York. On his blog entitled "Occupational Hazard" he said he can only open his mouth the size of a fingertip. He suffered the injury only a week into training.

After spending their lives enduring brutal treatment, the last of Bulgaria's dancing bears are headed to a mountain sanctuary where they can rest their paws. The bears are the last in a line of centuries of bears in the Balkans that have been trained to dance by walking across burning embers on their bare paws hopping from one foot onto the other to escape the fire while their trainer beat a drum until they connected the drum to the pain. The bears were caught while they were cubs and trained. Many Gypsy, or Roma, families earned their livelihoods with bear dancing for generations.