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15 November 2005, 19:53 UTC#1
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RUGBY fan Geoffrey Huish told yesterday of the moment of madness when he hacked off his own TACKLE  because his team Wales beat England.
Single Geoffrey, 31, took an agonising ten minutes to perform the horrific op using a pair of blunt wire cutters.
Then he put his severed parts in a blue plastic bag and staggered to a social club to announce his desperate deed to fellow Wales fans.
Jobless Geoffrey finally collapsed with blood pouring from his groin as horrified drinkers put his testicles in a pint glass of ice. They were handed to paramedics who rushed him to hospital  but surgeons could not sew them back.
Geoffrey spent several months in a psychiatric unit as experts tried to fathom his actions.
He is now back home in Senghenydd in the Welsh Valleys  and is STILL unsure why he did it.
Geoffrey, who says he has no history of mental illness, insists he was sober when he performed the DIY castration in his bathroom.
It came in February after Wales won in Cardiff with Gavin Henson clinching victory.
Geoffrey said: “I’d told my pal Gethin Probert before the game that Wales didn’t stand a chance.
“It wasn’t a bet, but I said I’d cut my balls off if we won.
“I listened to the game on the radio at home by myself. After the match I got up for a pee and saw the cutters in the bathroom.
“Gethin had left them after repairing the chain on my toilet. I remembered what I’d said and thought he had left them for me.
“I thought, ‘Oh no, I haven’t got to do anything like that have I’? Then I thought, ‘You can do it’.
“So I started hacking away at my tackle. It took about ten minutes and there was quite a lot of pain  but I just kept going.
“The cutters were blunt so I had to keep snipping. I cut my penis as well. There was a lot of blood but not as much as you would expect.â€Â
Eventually Geoffrey succeeded in castrating himself over the toilet. Then, after fishing his testicles from the loo, he walked to Gethin’s house.
Gethin was out  so he walked another five minutes to the village’s Leigh Social Club.
Geoffrey said: “The Leigh was packed with rugby fans. I went in and shouted out, ‘I’ve done it’.
“I took my balls out and passed them in the bag to a friend. Some people then laid me on the floor.â€Â
Doctors were handed his testicles but decided there was no chance of reversing his DIY op.
Remarkably, he had not lost a critical amount of blood and did not require a transfusion.
Geoffrey must still visit a psychiatrist. He said: “I think about what happened every day and still haven’t come up with a good reason why. I’d had a lot going on and felt a bit down. I can’t have kids now, but still want a family. Maybe I’ll adopt.â€Â
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RUGBY fan Geoffrey Huish told yesterday of the moment of madness when he hacked off his own TACKLE  because his team Wales beat England.
Single Geoffrey, 31, took an agonising ten minutes to perform the horrific op using a pair of blunt wire cutters.
Then he put his severed parts in a blue plastic bag and staggered to a social club to announce his desperate deed to fellow Wales fans.
Jobless Geoffrey finally collapsed with blood pouring from his groin as horrified drinkers put his testicles in a pint glass of ice. They were handed to paramedics who rushed him to hospital  but surgeons could not sew them back.
Geoffrey spent several months in a psychiatric unit as experts tried to fathom his actions.
He is now back home in Senghenydd in the Welsh Valleys  and is STILL unsure why he did it.
Geoffrey, who says he has no history of mental illness, insists he was sober when he performed the DIY castration in his bathroom.
It came in February after Wales won in Cardiff with Gavin Henson clinching victory.
Geoffrey said: “I’d told my pal Gethin Probert before the game that Wales didn’t stand a chance.
“It wasn’t a bet, but I said I’d cut my balls off if we won.
“I listened to the game on the radio at home by myself. After the match I got up for a pee and saw the cutters in the bathroom.
“Gethin had left them after repairing the chain on my toilet. I remembered what I’d said and thought he had left them for me.
“I thought, ‘Oh no, I haven’t got to do anything like that have I’? Then I thought, ‘You can do it’.
“So I started hacking away at my tackle. It took about ten minutes and there was quite a lot of pain  but I just kept going.
“The cutters were blunt so I had to keep snipping. I cut my penis as well. There was a lot of blood but not as much as you would expect.â€Â
Eventually Geoffrey succeeded in castrating himself over the toilet. Then, after fishing his testicles from the loo, he walked to Gethin’s house.
Gethin was out  so he walked another five minutes to the village’s Leigh Social Club.
Geoffrey said: “The Leigh was packed with rugby fans. I went in and shouted out, ‘I’ve done it’.
“I took my balls out and passed them in the bag to a friend. Some people then laid me on the floor.â€Â
Doctors were handed his testicles but decided there was no chance of reversing his DIY op.
Remarkably, he had not lost a critical amount of blood and did not require a transfusion.
Geoffrey must still visit a psychiatrist. He said: “I think about what happened every day and still haven’t come up with a good reason why. I’d had a lot going on and felt a bit down. I can’t have kids now, but still want a family. Maybe I’ll adopt.â€Â