This time of year, it is only natural for us to reflect on our blessings and give thanks. After reading this bit of news from Wales, I'm giving thanks that I'm not Welsh, that I'm not a soccer fan, and perhaps more than anything, that I'm not crazy.

Geoffrey Huish, 31, of Senghenydd, Wales, does not enjoy any of these blessings. Number one, he's Welsh; number two, he's a soccer fan (understatement here, perhaps); and number three, he's … well, you be the judge.

According to news reports, Huish recently emasculated himself after the Welsh soccer team beat England. He did it with a pair of wire cutters. Rusty wire cutters, according to news reports.

It took Huish 10 minutes to perform the surgery, after which he put his newly-severed extremities in a plastic bag and staggered to a local club to tell fellow fans what he'd done. After he collapsed, his friends put the contents of the bag on ice and gave them to paramedics, who rushed Huish to the hospital. Sadly, surgeons were unable to re-attach his manly appendages.

Huish reportedly spent several months in a psychiatric unit while doctors tried to figure out why he did what he did. He was quoted as saying, “I think about what happened every day and still haven’t come up with a good reason why." Really? How about this for a reason why: you’re crazy, dude. You cut off your boys with wire cutters, you're in a psych unit  – put them all together and they spell "crazy."

Here's another puzzling aspect of the story: why would a man divest himself of the family jewels after his team had won? If they'd lost, and he'd done it in a fit of despondency, I could halfway see that. But his team had won; for many sports fans, this would be occasion for celebration, not self-mutilation. So, not only is the guy nuts (pardon the pun), he's also not the brightest star in the sky (I was going to say, "the sharpest knife in the drawer," but that would be cruel).

In other severed body part news from Europe, a cat ran off with its owner's toe after he accidentally chopped it off and then left it lying on the floor while he called an ambulance.

Udo Ried, 41, was slicing bread in his kitchen in Luebeck, Germany, when he dropped a large kitchen knife onto his bare foot, chopping off his second toe.

While he was hopping to the bathroom to get a bandage, his cat Fritz pounced on the severed digit and ran off with it. Ried tried to get the toe back but finally abandoned the search to do other things, like not bleed to death.

Doctors said they could have reattached the toe if the cat had not stolen it. They also said it was a probably a good thing that Ried wasn't naked when he dropped the knife.