In the film, self-reliant Sheriff John T.Chance (John Wayne) refused the well-meaning assistance of Pat Wheeler""s (Ward Bond) men -- "some well-meaning amateurs, most of ""em worried about their wives and kids," although all he had to help him keep a murderer from making a jailbreak was "a lame-legged old man and a drunk.She then sliced off his infected arm (at the elbow) with John""s machete, and they applied a tourniquet to the bleeding, amputated stump after cauterizing it with a makeshift flaming torch.The Smith Grove ambulance had run off the road and overturned in shallow water near a bridge.In addition to the two deceased attendants, the two paramedics were also presumed dead(# 3-4 deaths)(off-screen).That is, if you""re still in one piece").As they walked to their nearby hotel to register, Bo walked obliviously into ongoing traffic without paying attention to traffic signals, and also marveled at the pretty females on the sidewalk, comparing them to cattle: "Never seen so many gals.