Wake-up Call
An unidentified 36-year-old woman from Gainesville, Fla., had been drinking with her boyfriend. She later was having problems waking him, so she tried rousing him with fireworks. Her plan was to light the fuse of a device left over from the Fourth of July and toss it out the front door. Unfortunately, her plan backfired — literally. The device exploded in her hand, tearing off her thumb and two fingers; a bone fragment from one was found embedded in the ceiling. (MS/Gainesville Sun) ...Defining a completely new method of giving someone the finger.Original Publication Date: 04 September 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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