Posted on 07/04/2016 12:10:09 PM PDT by digger48
CHICAGO (WCMH/MEDIA GENERAL) – A nurse from Chicago got a rude awakening Thursday, a few hours after a man blew off his hand with a firecracker.
Cheri Steigert tells WBBM-TV that she was asleep after an overnight shift when she heard an explosion and a scream in her Portage Park neighborhood in Chicago on Thursday afternoon.
A few hours later, Steigert said she let her dog out in the yard. A few minutes later, the dog walked up to her with a hand in its mouth.
“This is like the first Fourth of July that I had off in three years and I have body parts flying in my yard,” Steigert told WBBM.
The victim was identified as 39-year-old Rafat Shejaeya. According to a report from WLS-TV, Shejaeya is a barber. Thanks to Steigert’s dog, Shejaeya may recover some use of his hand, but is unsure if he will be able to return to cutting hair.
Police say Shejaeya had the equivalent of a half-stick of dynamite explode near him. Steigert lives about 250 feet from where the accident happened.
— WCMH contributed to this story.
He played a bit too rough with a couple of baby bunnies the other day Tthough.
Hard to imagine a hand blown off and laying in the yard for “a few hours” and then chomped on by a dog could be successfully re-attached.
The dog knew she was tired and just wanted to give her a hand.
The dog deserves a round of applause.
Dog was bringing it in for some better seasoning than gunpowder.
Yes, let’s all give him a hand.
“Rafat Shejaeya”.
Hindu or Muslim? Sounds Hindu
“Good Boy, bring it here!”
I thought it was pretty well peppered.
Darwin is agnostic to race, creed or color, isn’t he?
Dog was so happy to finally have an opposable thumb.
Rafat is an Urdu name (mohammedan). I couldn’t find the surname listed as either Hindu or mohammedan; in India somem mohammedans use Hindu last names.
I wonder exactly what he was doing with firecrackers, innocent business or not, considering he is a mohammedan, no Hindu would use a mohammedan first name.
Dogs bites the hand of man that feeds him. Ok, sorry I couldn’t resist.
Handu or Muslimb? Sounds Handu [fixed it for ya] ;)
Probably building a bomb of some kind. Note they said the explosive device what much larger than an ordinary fire cracker. Trust nothing and/or no one, in particular a news report.
Seems he has had his hand in illegal activities there.
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