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TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for more than a mile, leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb….The man and his leg were taken to a hospital, but the limb had been crushed in the collision, the paper said.