August 23, 2007: Scary facial tumor [kinda graphic] and giant hand

Undertoad • Aug 23, 2007 8:27 am
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Reuters has the video of this gent, Huang Chunsai, a story that was also sent to IotD by a user whose name I can't match to a Cellar userid.

Chunsai has lived as a recluse until now, at age 31, when docs say they want a shot at removing this stuff. He's survived the first operation, removing 10kg of tumor... less than half of the entire 23kg. But he pretty much still looks like a mutant.

And this is after that first operation. Repeat, the above picture is after. The video shows him in much worse condition, before the operation. It really is much worse, even more gross, so be notified.

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If that wasn't enough. No, this is a different guy in China; Lui Hua was born with a birth defect where his thumb and first two fingers kept on growing and growing.
Spexxvet • Aug 23, 2007 8:33 am
It's Jabba the Hut. I'd like to see CSI take fingerprints from the second guy. :p

There is not a recipe out there that would get me to eat this IotD.
smurfalicious • Aug 23, 2007 8:53 am
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barefoot serpent • Aug 23, 2007 9:55 am
A few years soaking in the flesh-eating fish spa should clear that right up!
freshnesschronic • Aug 23, 2007 12:35 pm
Wow. Never seen anything like it.
DanaC • Aug 23, 2007 12:44 pm
My God, the things people can survive and adapt to. To live like that? Amazing.
lumberjim • Aug 23, 2007 12:53 pm
well, the second guy is a millionaire. yup.. he was the one that came up with those big foam fingers for fans to root on their team.
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smurfalicious • Aug 23, 2007 12:57 pm
lol @ lumberjim - i showed my coworker the pics and made a foam-finger reference. she told me i was going to hell.
lumberjim • Aug 23, 2007 1:37 pm
K save me a seat!
Sarasvati48 • Aug 23, 2007 1:53 pm
What is it with China and defects, especially facial defects, of this kind? Is this happening in America or other places or what? Everytime something like this comes up, it is a person from China...so weird!:headshake
lumberjim • Aug 23, 2007 1:59 pm
comes from putting pee pee in your coke
Clodfobble • Aug 23, 2007 2:07 pm
A.) China has a lot more people, so statistically, they're going to have more people with unlikely diseases.
B.) China's environmental policies aren't exactly what ours are. Crazy-ass chemicals are abundant in the air and water.
C.) China's healthcare system is horrific. Someone in the U.S. might get a tumor like this--and about the time it was the size of a grape, they would go to the doctor and have it removed. No such option in rural China.

You get cases like these from Africa, too, but they're even less likely to get volunteer medical assistance and thus be reported on.
smurfalicious • Aug 23, 2007 2:11 pm
I think that China has something like half the world's population - so it would translate into more occurrences there.

or like lumberjim said, it's the tinkle in the Image
Saphyre • Aug 23, 2007 4:17 pm
What gets me, is how small in stature he is. Seeing him next to the nurse (assuming she's not Yao Mings' sister), he's probably not more than 4" or so.

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DanaC • Aug 23, 2007 4:21 pm
I'm guessing it stunted his growth. The article mentions the fact that he was teased at school for the tumours, so he's had this a long time.
runswithknives • Aug 23, 2007 5:40 pm
"Hell yeah! High fiv...wait. One, two, three, four..yeah. High five!"

I'd say he's a prime candidate for the "If your hand is bigger than your face" joke/prank.

Also, that guy would be a force on the volleyball court.
Happy Monkey • Aug 23, 2007 5:42 pm
runswithknives;377713 wrote:
I'd say he's a prime candidate for the "If your hand is bigger than your face" joke/prank.

:eek: :biglaugha
Crimson Ghost • Aug 23, 2007 10:37 pm
Sarasvati48;377623 wrote:
What is it with China and defects, especially facial defects, of this kind? Is this happening in America or other places or what? Everytime something like this comes up, it is a person from China...so weird!:headshake


Maybe it's something in the toothpaste...
Elspode • Aug 24, 2007 1:43 am
Hold up on the Hellbound bus, I'm gettin' on:

Dude must have saved a fortune in Halloween costumes by now.
morie • Aug 24, 2007 3:53 am
and i thought i was having a bad day. reading this IotD really made things much clearer.

btw, all you China bashers, you're full of s***. china holds one fifth of the world's population so naturally, one fifth of the weird things would come from it.

not all of these things come from China- I hear that a Ukranian man is now the world's tallest.

many people on China are poor and cannot afford proper medical treatment.
Gravdigr • Aug 24, 2007 5:03 am
The first guy made me think of Jabba too. But first, I thought of Grimace from the old McDonald's commercials. As for the second guy, to paraphrase Gunnery Sgt. Hartman: "His days of finger-banging Mary Jane Rottencrotch...are OVER!"

And yes, we are all going to hell on a scholarship.:headshake
Nikolai • Aug 24, 2007 9:46 am
Who's up for a game of Rock, Paper, Giant Hand?, or how about a game of thumb wrestling? But on a serious note dame hes getting it fixed, he'd be ideal to use the original Xbox controller.

And btw Morie China has 1/6 of the worlds population, dont want to miss out on a billion people lol :rolleyes:
HungLikeJesus • Aug 28, 2007 9:16 pm
China's population is 1.3 billion.
The population of Earth is 6.6 billion

6.6/1.3 = 5.1
Deuce • Aug 28, 2007 9:30 pm
*ahem*

1.3/6.6~=.2 ~ 1/5

1/6 ~ 1/5 pretty close.. your point HLJ?
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 28, 2007 10:59 pm
The difference between 1/5 and 1/6 is about 220,000,000 people.
JuancoRocks • Aug 29, 2007 1:01 am
xoxoxoBruce;379554 wrote:
The difference between 1/5 and 1/6 is about 220,000,000 people.


Or one Giant hand?
wolf • Aug 29, 2007 11:43 am
morie;377868 wrote:

btw, all you China bashers, you're full of s***. china holds one fifth of the world's population so naturally, one fifth of the weird things would come from it.


We are Americans, and when we really work at it, we are ugly.

But not as ugly as that guy in the IOTD ...
Shawnee123 • Aug 29, 2007 11:46 am
morie;377868 wrote:
china holds one fifth of the world's population so naturally, one fifth of the weird things would come from it.



[/understatement of the year]
HungLikeJesus • Aug 29, 2007 12:26 pm
morie;377868 wrote:
...
btw, all you China bashers, you're full of s***. china holds one fifth of the world's population so naturally, one fifth of the weird things would come from it.
...


Nikolai;377909 wrote:
...And btw Morie China has 1/6 of the worlds population, dont want to miss out on a billion people lol :rolleyes:


HungLikeJesus;379506 wrote:
China's population is 1.3 billion.
The population of Earth is 6.6 billion

6.6/1.3 = 5.1


Deuce;379511 wrote:
*ahem*

1.3/6.6~=.2 ~ 1/5

1/6 ~ 1/5 pretty close.. your point HLJ?


Just providing data to support morie's post.