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Pinky Swear

It all started when Ernest Vannier was caught allegedly having sex in the designated smoking room in a Glens Falls, N.Y., bar. As the bartender and several employees escorted Vannier out, police say, he bit the bartender’s pinky, breaking bone and almost completely severing the digit. The bartender was taken to the hospital, where his finger was reattached, and Vannier was taken to jail, where he was charged with second-degree assault, and faces up to seven years in prison. (MS/Albany Times-Union) ...No really: I was planning to smoke afterward!
Original Publication Date: 22 April 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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