AT LEAST YOU STILL HAVE YOUR MAGIC PENIS:

2007 ended on an extremely sour note for an Indian holy man who had his right leg hacked off and stolen by a group of bandits. 80-year-old Yanadi Kondaiah had been worshipped in his village thanks to the healing powers that were generated by his holy leg. People had believed that touching his leg would cure their spiritual and physical ailments. Unfortunately the jig is up as two men decided to steal the magical leg for their own purposes. The men had gone to Kondaiah for medical healing, then offered to get him drunk in exchange for his services. "As the old man had the weakness of drinking, he accepted their invitation to have drinks with them," said a local police officer. After getting him completely hammered, the two men sawed off his leg with a hunting knife and left him to die. Luckily he was found in time and is now recovering in a southern Indian hospital. “I have always been good to others and helped who ever came to me. Then why has this been done to me?" he asked, but his gods were unavailable for comment. (BBC)