Why would you sell your finger in the first place? Sounds like the whole circle of people are insane.
"Why would you sell your finger in the first place?"
What else you going to do with it. Wear it on a chain around your neck? Frame it and hang it on the wall? If some idiot wanted to give me $50 for it I would probably take the money too.
My bet it was taken to pay the debt... the tailgate story is just a cover. IE pay me or I break your knee caps, take your finger.