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iPad Mugging Reveals Danger Of Tying Shopping Bags Around Your Fingers
A Colorado man who was picking up an iPad as a present for a co-worker was rewarded for his errand-running with a mugging that left him minus a finger. After leaving the Apple Store at his local mall with the bag tied around his fingers, Bill Jordan — who noted to his local CBS affiliate that he'd moved his family to the Rockies in order to get away from the wilds of New Jersey — was accosted in the parking lot. And then: "He was almost sitting on the ground he was pulling so hard and [the bag] was still tied around my fingers; and it wouldn't come off and then finally he gave it one big jerk; and that's when he stripped the skin off my pinky and it went right down to the bone." The 59-year-old's finger had to be amputated.
Could you at least have put a buffer story between this and the crush post? My stomach is all up in a big gross knot now. Blegh
-seconded-
It's lunchtime. How about a hot dog?!
@CaptainFantastic: bad idea.
http://www.queerty.com/is-it-time-to-put-down-the-hot-dogs-20100419/
A unicorn chaser isn't quite as effective when you're chasing the unicorn in order to grind it to death under your stiletto.
iNub
iCan'tSipFromFancyTeacups
It is so rare to witness the live birth of an urban legend.
My mugger wouldn't take my BlackBerry even after I offered three fingers of his choice.
I never even thought about trying to swipe one while it was still in the box.
Well, he may have lost a finger but he can still aksfdagdj.
Brian Lam offered $4999.99 for the finger.
The mugger should have just hung out at a bar in Redwood for a few hours; he probably would have gotten the next generation iPad for free.
Choire was right: those things are evil.
PART of the finger had to be amputated! Let's be precise here, people.
In medical terminology that's known as 'degloving'. Laypeople call it desgusting
At least now he can switch to a less expensive knockoff that doesn't have multitouch.
#silverlining