FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. — With a clunk-clunk of his wooden peg leg and a parrot perched on his shoulder, Jim Light lets loose an “Ayyyy, matey” as he makes a dove appear — seemingly — out ...

For a peg leg, Valdez is wearing, well, a peg leg. "If you can't have fun with it, what's the point," said Valdez, 30, whose left leg was amputated below the knee following a horrific car crash 11 ...

He decided that if he was going to have one real leg for the rest of his life, he may as well make the other a peg leg and build a pirate ship to ride around in. Kids would get a kick out of it.