{"id":37121,"date":"2015-11-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/37121\/man-severs-penis-scrotum-in-suicide-attempt\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T12:44:04","slug":"man-severs-penis-scrotum-in-suicide-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/10\/man-severs-penis-scrotum-in-suicide-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"(Warning) Graphic Content: Man severs penis, scrotum, in suicide attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man, whose identity is known to the Middelburg Observer, climbed into his bath tub and amputated both his penis and scrotum.<\/p>\n

The man simply placed the severed sex organs on the edge of the tub, but later became anxious, and alerted a security guard.<\/p>\n

The security guard immediately notified the man\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

Paramedics responding to the emergency also found deep gashes on the man\u2019s stomach and leg.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t respond to paramedic\u2019s questions, but paramedics say he was fully coherent.<\/p>\n

Paramedics had to endure the sight of the severed penis and scrotum on the edge of the bath, right next to the man, while treating him.<\/p>\n

The 37-year old man was taken to Groblersdal Hospital by Life24 ambulance services of Groblersdal.<\/p>\n

A number of Middelburg paramedics also rushed to the scene to assist.<\/p>\n

He was described as stable and out of danger on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u2022American, John Wayne Bobbit, instantly became famous after his wife Lorena cut off his penis, which successfully reattached to his body by doctors.<\/p>\n

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Die mes waarmee n man van die Middelburg omgewing sy privaatdele afgesny het. Die bad waarin hy dit gedoen het, is in die agtergrond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Read more here:<\/p>\n

(Waarskuwing) Grafiese inhoud: Man sny penis af met skerp mes<\/a><\/p>\n

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A resident of Kranspoort attempted to commit suicide by slicing off his penis with a sharp knife on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":37122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1025,2895,1049,1614,1231,923,2552,21966,2894,2897,2896,1088],"class_list":["post-37121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-chop","tag-danger","tag-knife","tag-kranspoort","tag-loskop-dam","tag-man","tag-middelburg","tag-penis","tag-sharp-knife","tag-suicide","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","chop","danger","knife","Kranspoort","Loskop dam","man","middelburg","Penis","sharp knife","suicide","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}