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The Armless Drummer

last yearOdd : Neatorama

Cornel Hrisca-Munn was born without forearms and deformed right leg. He was given just days to live and his birth mother left him in an institution where he was "dumped in a battered metal cot in a bare room crammed full of other unwanted or disabled babies, given a little milk and left to die." [...]
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Deformed Pig in China Walks Using Only Its Front Legs

Odd : Weird Asia News (2 years ago)

Never underestimate the little ones. That was one man’s unofficial credo (well, presumably) when he taught a little deformed piglet, born with only its front legs, to walk. Ge Xinping, from Mengcheng in eastern China’s Anhui Provinc... Read Post

That’ll Do of the Day

Odd : The Daily What (2 years ago)

That’ll Do of the Day: Refusing to be defined by his deformity, a boar born without hind legs in China’s eastern Anhui Province learned to walk on his front trotters. “It took lots of time and devotion,” said owner Ge Xinping. “But ... Read Post

One-Armed Woman Wins Miss Iowa Competition

Odd : Neatorama (last week)

23-year old Nicole Kelly is the new Miss Iowa. She was born without a left forearm, but she's never let it get in the way of her ambitions. She writes: I was born without my left forearm. (Although, when people ask me what happened ... Read Post


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