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Man left impaled and hanging on fence for five days has legs amputated

A man was left to hang upside-down and impaled on a fence for five days, he has revealed.

Dale Whitehurst, 44, believed that he was going to die in the horrifying accident.

Dale, from the West Midlands, now uses a wheelchair and has prosthetic legs. He thought that his "number was up" as he desperately cried out for help for approximately 112 hours, Birmingham Live reports.

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