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.
I wonder if there was a tug-of-war involved in getting it away from the dog.
That must have been one helluva “firecracker”....
"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" -- old Zen koan
Dog was just trying to move into the digital age.
[unless a laser dot was brought into the equation, somehow]
Not fingering Rin, just sayin’ ...
I can’t believe nobody posted “Finders keepers” yet.
Dumb a$$ dog told it to Heal and it brings me a hand
And, “fireworks” are illegal in Illinois, not to mention half-sticks of dynamite. Just like shooting people with guns is.
Yeah, that’s not like the firecrackers I used to get. Plus, detached at the wrist, with fingers still intact?
I smell BS
The photo of the Rafat in Louisiana has the beard with no mustache, Salalfist, worst kind of mohammedans.
When I was a little girl I saw a woman running into a hospital carrying a towel with fingers on it. I was mortified and obviously I still remember it 50 years later. The story went that a boy in my neighborhood was in the basement of his home, lit a cherry bomb firecracker and then didn’t know where to throw it. Darwin award for sure.
SOunds less like a “firecracker” and more like a homebuild black powder experiment...
Or M80... or cherry bombs.
Let’s see, half stick of dynamite (probably not legal anywhere as a firework, noise from Fourth of July celebration, fundamentalist Muslim with a rap sheet...I know these pieces fit together somehow...
Let’s see, half stick of dynamite (probably not legal anywhere as a firework, noise from Fourth of July celebration, fundamentalist Muslim with a rap sheet...I know these pieces fit together somehow...
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