Man hurls friend’s prosthetic leg into woods, pours gas on him, Oregon cops say

A 34-year-old man ended an argument with a friend by pepper-spraying him, throwing his prosthetic leg into the woods, dousing him in gasoline and threatening to set him on fire, an Oregon sheriff’s department says.

Troy Kenneth Dahl of La Pine has been jailed on suspicion of assault, menacing, unlawful use of pepper spray and other charges, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook.

Dahl had been driving a Chevrolet Tahoe SUV while arguing with a passenger Tuesday night when he pulled into a forest, punched and pepper-sprayed the other man, deputies wrote.

He then pulled off the man’s prosthetic leg and hurled it into the forest, deputies wrote. Dahl poured gasoline on the man and threatened to set him on fire with a cigarette lighter.

“Dahl did not light the victim on fire,” the sheriff’s Facebook post reads.

Instead, he loaded the man and his prosthetic leg into the back of his SUV, then dumped both in the street outside the home of a relative of the man, deputies wrote.

“Dahl rang the victim’s relative’s doorbell and fled the area,” deputies wrote. The relative called 911 at 8 p.m., but they failed to find Dahl, who later turned himself in Wednesday.