AUDIO: FINGERS FROM FIREWORK FAILURE FOUND
The mystery that surrounded the discovery of two severed fingers in an East Grand Forks, Minnesota, park appears to have been solved. Police have DNA results linking a 24-year-old local man to the fingers, which were found in May on a picnic table at a Red River State Recreation Area campsite. However, the man lost the fingers – and his left hand – in a fireworks accident in Grand Forks, North Dakota, quite a distance away. The accident victim, identified in a police report as 24-year-old Mackenzie Steele, attempted to light the fuse of a 2-inch mortar round and place it inside a launch tube on April 30 in downtown Grand Forks, North Dakota. Steele set the tube down and held onto it to prevent it from falling, but the firework exploded, causing the tube to explode into small fragments of shrapnel, resulting in the complete or partial loss of his left palm, wrist and fingers, including his ring and middle fingers. Several weeks later, a family were setting up camp at the Red River State Recreation Area in Minnesota when their 6-year-old child found two fingers, still connected to a piece of palm, on a picnic table. It is unknown how the North Dakota fingers ended up on the Minnesota side of the Red River, but the crime lab noted possible beak marks in the flesh, and the theory is a bird found them and brought them over.
* Would those be the Flying Fickle Fingers of Fate?
* Another possibility: The fingers are haunted and got up and walked like two legs and swam across the river and climbed up onto the picnic table. Or yeah, it could have been a bird.
* I’ve heard of “finger food,” but not like this.
* Did the 6-year-old kid at least get a nice ring out of the deal?
* I’m betting the guy was in a different state himself when it happened – a drunken state.
* He held the tube with a mortar round in it? Oh, come on, man.
* You’ve got to take more of an interest in your own survival.
* Maybe you could use the fingers to catch fish….I’m just trying to help here.
* Naa, if the bird didn’t want them, the fish will probably pass too.
* (see clip below) James Bond in … Birdfinger!! (Bah-bwaaahhhh bah!!)
CLIP: The trumpet part of “Goldfinger”.
