You'd think that at the age of 47, you'd no longer have to A) prove your ability to pound large amounts of beer and B) agree to anything that involved you getting set on fire. But a man in Las Cruces, New Mexico apparently hasn't reached that level of maturity yet...

He was drinking with friends when they all agreed that whoever pounded the fewest number of brewskies would be set aflame.

Our unnamed hero only drank six, which made him the lightweight of the group. Seeing as how he has a prosthetic leg, he was likely at a disadvantage due to lower blood volume. But unlike golfers, this group wasn't about to provide him with a handicap.

So the mope agreed to let his friends set his fake leg on fire. This, as you can imagine, proved a bad idea when the flames spread to his butt and back. The man shed his clothes to keep the fire from consuming him.

At this point his friends decided it might be wise to take him to the hospital. But on their way, they had second thoughts, believing that police might not treat lightly guys who set their buddy on fire. So they left him by the side of I-70.

Witnesses soon reported seeing a naked man with his leg aflame. Apparently his close friends hadn't bothered to subdue the fire before leaving him by the side of the highway. He was struck by two cars and tried to jump in a third before an ambulance finally arrived.

He was later flown to a burn unit at a Texas hospital.

Incredibly, the man wasn't pissed that his buddies had left him to burn to death. Nor had he ever resisted being set on fire. According to the Las Cruces Sun-News, he told deputies that he had it coming. After all, he'd lost the bet.