London Teen Loses Prosthetic Hand He Left On Bike

Teenager Jack Baker had only planned to visit his girlfriend for a few minutes. So he parked his motorcycle outside her home and left his prosthetic hand gripped to its handlebar.

But when he came back outside two hours later, the hand was gone, apparently taken by a thief who found it more interesting to make off with the hand than the bike.

"I came out and found the hand was gone. I thought it was my girlfriend's parents messing about, but they said it wasn't them," says Baker. "I went for a look around, but I couldn't see my hand anywhere. There were no kids about and no one to ask if they had seen it. I ended up jumping on my bike and going home."

The hand disappeared last week in Bristol, the same city in southwestern England, where Baker lost his right arm in a head-on crash with a bus earlier this year.

He says the prosthetic hand allowed him to ride his new, specially-adapted motorbike, and it will cost him nearly $1000 to replace it.

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