Posted on 09/04/2009 1:31:44 PM PDT by DGHoodini
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/sep/03/healthcare-reform-opponent-loses-part-of-finger/
This article seems pretty even handed. There’s also a link to the 911 call, and other video on the left hand side.
What I can’t figure out is why they wouldn’t be seeking to arrest the finger biter? As some suggested - isn’t that ‘maiming’? Also, it seems clear he went out of his way to instigate and target Rice.
Is it true the guy’s finger was bitten because his fist was in the other guy’s mouth?
“Also, it seems clear he went out of his way to instigate and target Rice.”
That’s what moveon.org is trained to do — intimidate and bait the other side for exactly this purpose: To make us react. Mr. Rice shouldn’t have taken the bait.
Obviously his fist wasn’t *in* the biters mouth, not to mention the fact that most peoples mouths aren’t big enough, but to have bitten off just the pinky, it was merely pressed up against the biters mouth, qwho opened his mouth, and took the pinky in, and bit..
“Rice drove himself to Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks.”
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-finger-bitten-rally,0,7135717.story
This was an amazing report, that the 65 year old victim drove himself to the hospital.
Just goes to show ya, how inaccurate first reports can be. The first report I heard, was that he himself, (the victim) had picked up his bitten off digit, and walked the ten odd blocks to the hospital on his own legs/power.
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