Found this on BoingBoing.

Why do they have to cut it off? If I were that kid, I’d want to keep it. Who knows how useful it might be in 20 years time. Not to mention the Total Recall type movie roles I might get.

Then again, this is China and we can’t be letting kids be different now.

Still, if it were me, I’d want to keep it.

Doctors in Shanghai on Tuesday were considering surgery options for a two-month old boy born with an unusually well-formed third arm.

Neither of the boy’s two left arms is fully functional and tests have so far been unable to determine which was more developed, said Dr. Chen Bochang, head of the orthopedics department at Shanghai Children’s Medical Center.

“His case is quite peculiar. We have no record of any child with such a complete third arm,” Chen said in a telephone interview. “It’s quite difficult to decide how to do the operation on him.”

Baby With 3 Arms May Have Surgery – Associated Press via SFGate.com

Theres a photo of the kid if you go to the article itself. When I first saw the photo I figured it was another Worth1000.com photoshopping competition being announced. Boy was I wrong. ;-)