DARTS icon Bobby George watched as a surgeon cut off his toe – now he keeps it at home in a jar filled with vodka.
George, 79, had four operations to remove four toes, two on each foot, due to a painful genetic deformity.
Darts icon Bobby George showed off his amputated toe that he keeps in a jar filled with vodka[/caption]
George keeps the toe behind the bar in his Essex mansion[/caption]
He showed off the 26-year-old toe[/caption]
George was always one of darts’ most eccentric characters[/caption]
The eccentric darts legend, who earned the nickname ‘King of Bling’ during his playing days, keeps the toe behind his private bar at his 18-room mansion in Essex.
George suffers from a genetic condition that has caused his toes to come out of their sockets and cross over.
Explaining the unusual situation, he told SunSport: “Well, I’ve got… I don’t want to say disease or whatever, but people get it in their hands.
“Their fingers cross over. I got it in my feet. And they started [crossing over] that was like that, and this one was over there [gesturing at crossed over toes].
“I couldn’t get my shoes on. And my balance was right dodgy and all. You know, I said, just cut it off, mate.”
George, who twice finished as runner-up in the World Championship during his playing days, recalled watching the surgeon cut his toe off for the first time – using what he described as a “big pair of nail cutters”.
He explained: “It don’t take long to cut your toe off. I watched them do it.
“What they do, they get your toe and they cut round here [the base], right the way round with a scalpel.
George talked SunSport through the gruelling operation[/caption]
The star twice finished as runner-up at the World Championship[/caption]
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“They put a tourniquet on so there’s no blood. Then they cut it down and peel the skin back.
“Then they get, I’ll never forget, they get like a big pair of nail cutters.
“And they went, boing, ding, it comes off. That’s how quick it, boing, off. And then they sew the skin up.”
After the surgery was complete George wanted to make sure he was leaving with a memento of his procedure, asking the doctor if he could take his toe back with him.
Reluctantly, the doctor did let him take the toe back home and some 26 years later George still has it in a small jar that he keeps on his bar.
He said: “He wouldn’t give me the stuff to preserve it. It’s deadly poison, so I can’t do that. I put it in vodka. Been in vodka 26 years.
“It’s curled up a little bit, I think it’s p****d by now.”
George keeps the toe next to his booze on his bar, joking with friends that come over that it’s a “cocktoe”.
The retired thrower had surgeries on his toes, knees and hips over the years – leaving him reaching for “16 tablets a day for pain relief”.
George was known as the ‘King of Bling’ during his playing days[/caption]
