John Wayne Bobbitt is an incredibly unlucky man.
The former marine, who made headlines after his wife cut off his penis with an eight-inch carving knife, has now broken his neck after a motorist jumped a red light and ploughed into his car.
Bobbitt, 47, became famous in 1993 when his wife Lorena chopped off his member and threw it out of the window of a moving car, calling it ‘revenge’ for years of domestic abuse.
And Bobbitt was handed a second dose of impossibly bad luck when after a driver jumped a red light and hit the side of his pick-up truck, breaking one of the vertebra in his neck.
Doctors treating Bobbitt said, however, that his injuries are not life-threatening and they believe he will make a full recovery.
Bobbitt certainly has a lot to thank doctors for.
After an exhaustive search back in 1993, his severed penis was found in a field, before being packed in ice and taken to hospital, where surgeons managed to reattach it in a nine-and-a-half hour operation.
And far from trying to distance himself from the unfortunate incident, Bobbitt cashed in on his unlikely source of fame, trying several business ventures and forming a band called The Severed Parts.
Although doctors told him he would never be able to have sex again, he claims to have slept with more than 80 women since the operation, and had a stint as a porn star.
Unfortunately both the films – one of which was called John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut – flopped.
