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Another Wedding Guest Loses Digit In Fight
AP ^ | 11/2/05 | Staff

Posted on 11/02/2005 7:46:03 AM PST by Millee

For the second time in two years, a wedding reception guest in Shiawassee County has lost part of a finger during a fight.

This time, Philip L. Michalek, of Morrice, is accused of biting off the tip of another man's thumb during a scuffle Saturday night outside the Perry Township Hall, police said.

Michalek, 26, was arraigned Monday on a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and jailed with bond set at $10,000. He could face 10 years in prison if convicted.

Police said Michalek was scuffling with Ryan Dickey, 23, of Grand Ledge, in the parking lot when the incident occurred.

Dickey was taken to a Lansing hospital, but doctors could not reattach the severed part of his thumb, police and prosecutors said. He has since been released from the hospital.

State police Detective Sgt. Mark Pendergraff said Michalek and Dickey had a dispute and went to the parking lot. "They got into a scuffle, and the victim's thumb ended up in the suspect's mouth," he told The Flint Journal.

In August 2003, a wedding guest was arrested after biting off part of a man's finger, biting the thumb of the bridegroom and knocking down the bridegroom's mother during a fracas involving several people outside a wedding hall in Corunna.

In that case, the guest pleaded no contest to assault and battery and felonious assault and was sentenced to two to four years in prison.


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fingerfood; hatewhenthathappens

1 posted on 11/02/2005 7:46:04 AM PST by Millee
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To: Millee

....You might be a Michigander.


2 posted on 11/02/2005 7:49:06 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Millee

Tyson Legacy.


3 posted on 11/02/2005 7:49:25 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Tyson Foods.)
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To: Millee

Thank goodness it wasn't a nudist wedding reception or it could have been a lot worse.


4 posted on 11/02/2005 7:49:50 AM PST by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, pull my finger)
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To: Millee

Knucklehead.


5 posted on 11/02/2005 7:50:45 AM PST by Charles Henrickson
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To: Millee

Still less painful than getting married.


6 posted on 11/02/2005 7:53:52 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: Charles Henrickson

That's strange. When I drive in Detroit somebody always manages to give me a finger.


7 posted on 11/02/2005 7:54:17 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: YouPosting2Me

ROFLMAO!


8 posted on 11/02/2005 7:55:10 AM PST by A-10 (Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail us now.)
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To: Maximus of Texas

Just don't order the chili at Wendy's for awhile if you live in the area.


9 posted on 11/02/2005 8:00:37 AM PST by Millee (As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!)
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To: Millee

Kind of hard now to hitchhike.


10 posted on 11/02/2005 8:32:03 AM PST by linkinpunk
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To: linkinpunk

He can only hitchhike in one direction.


11 posted on 11/02/2005 8:58:59 AM PST by PoorMuttly ("Conservative:one enamored of existing evils.Liberal:one who wishes to replace them with others")
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To: Millee

I'm guessing she's somehow involved.

12 posted on 11/02/2005 9:00:38 AM PST by JennysCool (Non-Y2K-Compliant)
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To: JennysCool

Brides just glow on their wedding days, don't they? ;o)


13 posted on 11/02/2005 9:17:17 AM PST by Millee (As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!)
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