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You know, there's a reason why people have been saying "let the buyer beware" for centuries now:

A man who bought a smoker Tuesday at an auction of abandoned items might have thought twice had he looked inside first.

Maiden police said the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches above the knee.

The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility, so investigators contacted the mother and son who had rented the space where the smoker was found.

The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery "for religious reasons" she doesn't know much about.

She says he's going to pick it up from the proud new owner. Now, I'd like to know why, if he wanted to keep his leg for weird religious reasons, why did he keep it in the smoker in a storage facility?

The article doesn't say, but I'd like to know: did the dude smoke his leg to preserve it?