Seagull Gets Artificial Leg Made Of Barbie Doll Parts
Bird Found With Limb On Verge On Gangrene
POSTED: 6:34 am EDT July 9,
2004
UPDATED: 1:32 pm EDT July 9,
2004
A seagull found with a badly injured leg was saved after its infected limb was cut off by a boat's crew and replaced with Barbie doll parts, according to a Local 6 News report. 
Martha the seagull was found by a yacht crew in the city of Antalya, Turkey, with a leg that was on the verge of gangrene.The crew, apparently inspired by peg-leg pirates, amputated the leg and created a new one with the leg of a Barbie doll and a big Barbie doll hand as a foot.Martha can now walk and even run around the boat on the leg.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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