Man who found finger in custard refuses to return it to owner

[lno]

Clarence Stowers, the man who found a severed fingertip in a container of custard from Kohl's, has decided to keep it. Linky link link (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/06/finger.fight.ap/index.html)But Clarence Stowers still has the digit, refusing to return the evidence so it could be reattached. And now it's too late for doctors to do anything for 23-year-old Brandon Fizer.

"I'm not saying who has it, but somebody has it," Stowers said this week in a telephone interview, refusing to let on where the fingertip is now.I wonder why he would want to keep it. Perhaps he wishes to CA$H IN BIG!!! in a lawsuit?He refused to give it to the shop's owner, and refused to give it to a doctor who was treating Fizer, who accidentally stuck his hand in a mixing machine and had his right index finger lopped off at the first knuckle.

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"The general manager attempted to retrieve it and rush it to the hospital," reads a statement posted Thursday on Kohl's Web site. "Unfortunately, the customer refused to give it to her and declared that he would be calling the TV stations and an attorney as he exited the store."No, no, it's uncharitable of me to assume greed on his part. Clearly he wanted to call the TV stations and an attorney so he could, uh, uhm, ensure that, uh, the media covered the reattachment surgery as a heartwarming after-school special.Stowers' attorney, Lee Andrews of Greensboro, wouldn't say if a lawsuit against Kohl's is planned, saying he needed "to get some more facts."

But Andrews said his client is concerned about possible disease in the fingertip and kept it because he wanted someone to test it for "all the diseases that are out here now."

"He's upset to the point that he's been debilitated to some degree," Andrews said. "Emotionally, it's been very upsetting to him."Oh, that explains it - Stowers is concerned about all the diseases that are out here now, like zombie fingertips. Perhaps he doesn't know who lost the finger (my suggestion is to ask Brandon Fizer, who suddenly lost his right index finger at the first knuckle, if it's his) and the idea of testing that man for "all the diseases that are out here now" isn't feasible."It's a mystery how that customer can live with himself after he refused to return the finger so that doctors might try to reattach it," said an editorial Thursday by the Star-News of Wilmington.

"Unless he offers a better explanation for that decision, people will assume that customer Clarence Stowers cared less about another person's loss of a body part than about his chance to squeeze some bucks out of the custard stand."Again, it's uncharitable of me to assume that he's a cold-hearted man who has dollar signs in his eyes.

Funny — I'm pretty uncharitable today.

[liirogue]

I hope the custard kid sues the customer.

[JohnT]

Longest. Link. Ever.

[Frank]

Longest. Link. Ever.
Yeah. How did lno miss out on the first sentence, I wonder?

[velvetjones]

What a complete jerk. I can't believe that he refused to give the finger back and now he's playing coy little games "I'm not saying where it is...."

Clarence Stowers is an asshole.

[Heckity]

Oh, that explains it - Stowers is concerned about all the diseases that are out here now, like zombie fingertips. Perhaps he doesn't know who lost the finger (my suggestion is to ask Brandon Fizer, who suddenly lost his right index finger at the first knuckle, if it's his)

Never mind asking - the prints would match ;)

[lno]

Yeah. How did lno miss out on the first sentence, I wonder?"To a dessert shop customer, the severed fingertip found in a pint of frozen custard could be worth big dollars in a potential lawsuit." ?

[wisernow]

I couldn't quite understand something. I don't think it is possible to lose an index finger upto the first knuckle and not be aware of it. The man who lost his finger in the machine, must have known it rightaway. The question is, how did it get served to this guy Stowers who came into the store 30 minutes after the accident. What was the finger's owner doing during that time?

Stowers is a cheap idiot though.

[tdn]

"He's upset to the point that he's been debilitated to some degree," Andrews said. "Emotionally, it's been very upsetting to him."
Well gee, imagine how Fizer feels, you putz. I hope he sues the everlovin' shit out of you.

[Cheesesteak]

Leaving aside how big an asshole Stowers is...(big, very big) A worker gets the tip of his finger cut off in a custard mixing machine, and the stand continues to sell custard from the machine before they find the fingertip? I don't know about you, but if I sever a digit at work, I expect everything to stop for a few minutes while we locate it. I certainly don't expect us to continue to serve food from the very machine I lopped my finger off in, without even cleaning it. :barf:

It's a fucking custard stand, they're not building Liberty Ships for the war effort, tell your customers that they won't get any custard for a while until you locate a severed finger.

Lawsuits all around...

[Maus Magill]

I hope Stowers' little plan backfires, and he is sued by Fizer as he had a chance to return the finger-tip, but refused. Hell, he not only refused, but it sounds like he gloated about it.

He's upset to the point that he's been debilitated to some degree.But at least he's still able to hold a pencil, dial a phone, or even pick his nose.

I wonder how upset Fizer is?

[lno]

I couldn't quite understand something. I don't think it is possible to lose an index finger upto the first knuckle and not be aware of it. The man who lost his finger in the machine, must have known it rightaway. The question is, how did it get served to this guy Stowers who came into the store 30 minutes after the accident. What was the finger's owner doing during that time?

Stowers is a cheap idiot though.Note that the article doesn't say he was served the custard 30 minutes after the accident, only that he did not return the finger when he was in the store 30 minutes after the accident. From an earlier article, the custard avec finger was scooped and served before the server knew of the accident. Apparently, Mr. Stowers received his custard, departed, discovered the finger, and returned to the store with no small amount of outrage. I can see this taking some time.

[Ike Witt]

What was the finger's owner doing during that time?


I'll hazard a guess and say he was going into shock.

I'd love to see 2 lawsuits come out of this. One where the customer has his case thrown out and has to pay court costs. The second where the customer gets slammed with medical costs and pain and suffereing damages for his callous disregard of another human being that he could have helped.

[Frank]

"To a dessert shop customer, the severed fingertip found in a pint of frozen custard could be worth big dollars in a potential lawsuit." ?
No, I meant I wondered how you missed including the first line of your OP in your link. :)

[Frank]

It's a fucking custard stand, they're not building Liberty Ships for the war effort, tell your customers that they won't get any custard for a while until you locate a severed finger.
:eek:

"OK, kids, who wants to mosey on down the road to Dairy Queen?"

[lno]

No, I meant I wondered how you missed including the first line of your OP in your link. :)Ah - because I'm a rebel. I embedded the opening quote tag inside the link for three reasons: I hate seeing full sentences linked. Messy, messy. I get little satisfaction out of daily life, so playing with vBulletin gives my life meaning. I like the number three.

[lno]

Whoah, bizarre!

I posted the OP in Firefox v1.0.2, but if I view it in IE 6.0, the entire quote is a link. For me, only the small text Quote: is a link.

I'll report that and see if I can find a nice friendly Pit mod to clean that up, and I'll recall that apparently not every browser renders posts the same way.

[neuroman]

This assmunch thoroughly deserves his pitting. I too hope he doesn't see a single dollar out of this affair. He's already getting some of his just desserts though - the entire town now knows what an asshole he is. With any luck he's being spat upon in the street.

[Eve]

It's a fucking custard stand, they're not building Liberty Ships for the war effort, tell your customers that they won't get any custard for a while until you locate a severed finger.

Or, better yet, offer a prize to the customer who finds it!

(Does this whole thing sound like an Arrested Development episode to anyone else?)

[BubbaDog]

The OP and reponses here just amaze me!

Here's a great idea:

Instead of calling names on the poor shmuck who was handed an "index finger smoothy" maybe you should hand out an asshole award to :

A) The dumbshit that lost the finger for not demanding that the finger be retrieved before he left. Granted he's stressed and just lost a digit but he's not gonna bleed to death. If I lost a finger, toe, tooth etc somewhere I'd damn well want to take it with me to the emergency room.

B) Dumbshit store manager for continueing to operate at all!?!? WTF !? There's a finger missing in this stuff and you're still selling it?! :eek:

Only course of action that isn't insane -
1 Close shop
2 Retrieve finger
3 Get employee to medical help
4 Throw out the batch of goo that had a finger in it

How you guys can dump on the customer for this is amazing to me. There's just no way in hell a customer should ever have this handed to him in the first place. There was some serious fuck-up occuring that had nothing to do with the customer.


Fizer: "Shit!!! I just cut off my finger!"
Owner: "That's terrible. As soon as I take care of this customer I'll give you a hand. Your finger isn't as important as me making a little money here. Yessir Mr. customer, here's your custard.
Fizer: "Of course, my finger isn't that important. I'm not even gonna mention how I lost it"

Stowers: "Shit! There's a finger in my custard!"
Owner: " Gee, how'd that happen there's no loose fingers he...Oh yeah, Fizer just lost one of those!
Fizer: " On second thought, maybe I should have mentioned where I lost the finger"

Stowers: "Jeezus Shit! THERE"S A FINGER IN MY CUSTARD!"
Owner:" Uh yeah, we're gonna need that back"
Fizer: " gettin real bloody back here"
Stowers " You dumbfucks served me a finger in my ice cream!!!!??!!?!"
Owner " well wups, Mistakes happen. We're gonna need that back"


I'm somewhat in agreement that the right thing for Stowers to do would have been to give it back but he seems to me to rank third on the list of assholes involved in this little melodrama.

[lno]

A) The dumbshit that lost the finger for not demanding that the finger be retrieved before he left. Granted he's stressed and just lost a digit but he's not gonna bleed to death. If I lost a finger, toe, tooth etc somewhere I'd damn well want to take it with me to the emergency room.Let me give you the timeline, as best I can decipher it from the articles: Fizer loses finger. Fizer says, "Oh no! I have lost my finger! Where can it be!" Another employee, not aware of the previous event, scoops up some frozen custard and sells it to Stowers. Stowers leaves the store, and discovers the finger. Stowers returns. Fizer and the store owner try to retrieve the finger. Stowers refuses, referencing attorneys and television stations.You may have missed the part where the store owner tried to retrieve the finger. I have a hunch that the man who lost his finger wanted it back. But, you're right, I can't assume that he did. We'd better accuse him of not asking to get his finger back.B) Dumbshit store manager for continueing to operate at all!?!? WTF !? There's a finger missing in this stuff and you're still selling it?! :eek:

...

Stowers: "Jeezus Shit! THERE"S A FINGER IN MY CUSTARD!"
Owner:" Uh yeah, we're gonna need that back"
Fizer: " gettin real bloody back here"
Stowers " You dumbfucks served me a finger in my ice cream!!!!??!!?!"
Owner " well wups, Mistakes happen. We're gonna need that back"And if you didn't notice, that seems to be what happened, with the next line of:
Stowers: "I'm gonna get Johnnie Cochran!"

Yes, obviously, knowingly serving a finger to a customer is idiotic. And knowingly continuing to serve food when dismemberment has gone on in the back room is disgusting. But from what the admittedly scarce articles regarding this have said, the fact that Brandon Fizer had lost a finger was not known to the person serving custard.

It seems to me that the screams of agony and the blood-flecked custard may be a hint, but I'm forced to assume that the server has enough common sense not to pass out food with people saying "Hey, wait, my finger's in there!"

[tdn]

Fizer: "Shit!!! I just cut off my finger!"
Owner: "That's terrible. As soon as I take care of this customer I'll give you a hand. Your finger isn't as important as me making a little money here. Yessir Mr. customer, here's your custard.
Fizer: "Of course, my finger isn't that important. I'm not even gonna mention how I lost it"
The thing is, we don't know that this happened. In fact we don't know much detail about the sequence of events at all.

I will say this, though: If it had been me that lost a finger, my thought process would not be "Golly gee, this might constitute a health code violation. Perhaps I should consider urging my coworkers to stop serving, in the best interest of the customers, doncha know." My thought process might be more along the lines of "OH FUCK! MY FINGER! OWWWWWW!" And I think I could be forgiven for not thinking too rationally. And if some dipstick insisted on keeping my finger, I think I could be forgiven for beating him to death with a wet carp.

There's more to this story than we're getting here.

[Maus Magill]

How you guys can dump on the customer for this is amazing to me. There's just no way in hell a customer should ever have this handed to him in the first place. There was some serious fuck-up occuring that had nothing to do with the customer.

<snip hypothetical situation>



I think the following is closer to what actually happened:

Fizer: "OW! Ohsitohshitohshit!"
(Custard continues to come out of the machine)
Manager: "what happened?"
(Custard continues to come out of the machine)
Fizer: "My finger!"
(Minimum Wage Custard Jockey serves fresh custard to Stowers)
Manager: "What about your fing - Oh Shit!"
Manager: "Stop the machine!"
Fizer: "Mommy?" (Thump)
Manager (to MWCJ): "Stop serving, and help me here."
MWCJ: "Huh?
(Manager applies first aid, and calls 911. MWCJ begins finger search.)

<elsewhere>

(Stowers finds a finger in his custard, and is probably totally grossed out. I would be, too.)
Stowers: Oh gross!
(Stowers remembers a lady who was going to sue a Wendy's, only he didn't plant the finger himself.)
Stowers: Cha-ching!

<30 minutes after the accident. Fizer is probably on way to hospital.>

Stowers: "I found --==THIS==-- in my custard."
Manager: "Oh thank God. We need that back to reattach it."
Stowers: "Give it back? No way! I'm calling my attorney and the TV Stations."*
Stowers: "Haw Haw Haw"**


*Paraphrased from actual statement, which had witnesses.
** Not actually said.

[Maus Magill]

It seems to me that the screams of agony and the blood-flecked custard may be a hint,

If the custard were chocolate, then the Minimum Wage Custard Jockey would not have seen the blood. It would just appear to be some darker swirls in the custard. If the custard were a light color, then... well...

As for the screams of agony... Who knows?

[Lynn Bodoni]

I once sliced off the tip of my thumb on a deli-slicing machine. I immediately began bouncing around and swearing. I did not continue to slice meat. I took care of my thumb (it was only the very tip of it that got sliced off, and it grew back eventually) and took a little break. Then, and only then, did I clean the slicer.

I can see where Fizer might have gone into shock, but I don't understand why the batch of custard was not pulled from the sales shelf. That's just gross. And Stowers is just an asshole for refusing to hand the the fingertip over. Maybe it could have been re-attached, maybe not. I hope that Fizer sues that guy for everything he's got, as Fizer is now permanently slightly disabled. I'd hate to try to go through life without use of all ten of my fingers.

The article mentions that this is the second time in less than a year that someone's lost a finger in that machine. Someone needs to look into that.

[holmes]

I'm somewhat in agreement that the right thing for Stowers to do would have been to give it back but he seems to me to rank third on the list of assholes involved in this little melodrama.

Third?Everything else was an accident... Stowers has deliberately maimed this guy.

C'mon. man.

[Cheesesteak]

I dunno, it seems pretty bizarre that something (anything) could fall into a food delivery machine and be served so fast that nobody could stop the machine or inform the server that a foreign object is in the food. If this was a pen cap, paperclip or nametag, would that all get served up too? It's also the second time a person lost a body part in that machine.

Methinks the management is not really up to snuff.

[aerodave]

I wonder if Stowers thought for even a second that coldly insisting on hanging on to a piece of SOMEONE ELSE'S BODY might open him up to a lawsuit of his own.

Just for his mean-spiritedness, I'd love to see the two suits cancel out to zero gain for either party. But that would be fair, and we know the tort system always moves in the direction that will take it the quickest away from fairness and common sense.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

He's already getting some of his just desserts though

Pun intended?

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

Fizer: "Shit!!! I just cut off my finger!"
Owner: "That's terrible. As soon as I take care of this customer I'll give you a hand.

Pun intended #2?

[tdn]

I don't understand why the batch of custard was not pulled from the sales shelf.
We don't know that it wasn't. Until we get a clearer report of how much time elapsed, what the setup is there, and whatever other factors were in play, I'm hesitant to throw any blame.

[Big_Norse]

They explain how it happened here (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/02/national/a163838D35.DTL)

Shop owner Craig Thomas said the employee who lost the finger had dropped a bucket while working with a machine that dispenses the custard. He tried to catch the bucket when the accident occurred.

Thomas told WWAY that several employees tried to help the injured worker, and that a drive-thru window attendant apparently scooped custard from the bucket into a pint before being told what had happened.

[davenportavenger]

Sometimes the pain from losing a body part can be so tremendous that the brain can't comprehend it immediately. I've heard of people who lost entire arms in shark attacks and car wrecks who didn't realize their arm was missing until they looked down and saw that it was gone. The kid could have been slinging custard for five minutes before he got a good look at his hand.

[tdn]

They explain how it happened here (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/02/national/a163838D35.DTL)
Thanks for that.

So now the questions become:

-Did the window guy look at what he was scooping? (Or did the finger sink down a bit?)
-Did anyone say "Stop! Finger!"?

[Ike Witt]

The article mentions that this is the second time in less than a year that someone's lost a finger in that machine. Someone needs to look into that.

And lose an eye???

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

That's what I'd call custard's last stand.

Okay, strike that last one. Two thumbs down (but hopefully still attached)!

[BubbaDog]

I gotta tell you, BBVL, there's something funny about what you just said.....but I can't seem to put my finger on it.

[Ace309]

Just for his mean-spiritedness, I'd love to see the two suits cancel out to zero gain for either party. But that would be fair, and we know the tort system always moves in the direction that will take it the quickest away from fairness and common sense.

I can understand this if Stowers and the store sued each other, but how is it 'fair' to the kid who lost the tip of his finger and may have lost the chance to have it reattached by the meanspirited asshole's deciding to hold onto it?

[Cheesesteak]

If there were two suits, it would be Stowers against the stand and the kid against Stowers. So if it "evened out" the stand loses and the kid wins.

[tdn]

I gotta tell you, BBVL, there's something funny about what you just said.....but I can't seem to put my finger on it.
There's got to be a knuckle sandwich joke in here somewhere.

[cher3]

How could this not be clearly illegal in some way? Do you lose custody over your body parts if they become accidently separated from you?

[Left Hand of Dorkness]

I hope the employee nails him good.

Daniel

[Contrapuntal]

Of all the clip joints in all the world, I had to walk into this one.

[ZebraShaSha]

How could this not be clearly illegal in some way? Do you lose custody over your body parts if they become accidently separated from you?

Well, in this instance, they became custardy.

[Capt. Ridley's Shooting Party]

Why the fuck didn't someone forcibly get the finger off the asshole? What court is going to convict someone of trying to get a bodypart back to it's owner so it can be attached?

[Marley23]

Punnery aside, this is one of the worst things I've ever heard.

[tdn]

I hope the employee nails him good.

Daniel
I hope the award has lots of digits.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

Well, in this instance, they became custardy.

I am now your biggest flan.

[Lute Skywatcher]

I've heard that this isn't the first time that some employee lost some anatomy in that machine.

This possibility springs to mind: Brandon and the scooper knew about the dangerous machine, one of them knew Mr. Stowers, and the three of them conconted this scheme to get money from Kohl's.

[Cagey Drifter]

At the risk of jumping the gun, I'm going to have to say that this Stowers guy has to be one of the biggest fucking assholes in the history of the planet. I don't say this very often, but this guy is a fucking waste of human life. A worthless human being.

[lno]

This possibility springs to mind: Brandon and the scooper knew about the dangerous machine, one of them knew Mr. Stowers, and the three of them conconted this scheme to get money from Kohl's.If that were the case, I would expect part of the conspiracy to involve Mr. Stowers returning the finger to Brandon.

But then, I remember being 23, and my get-rich-quick schemes then weren't all that brilliant in retrospect.

Ok, so these beer bottles have a $.10 deposit in Michigan, so what we do is buy a lot of beer, and I mean a lot of beer, and...

[BubbaDog]

I'm still not ready to hop on this bandwagon.

I'm trying to look at it from Stower's viewpoint. He goes to the stand to by a treat. Gets the treat handed to him, goes home, and discovers a finger in the food. At this point he has to be outraged as well as sick over what he sees.

He goes back to the stand and confronts the (owner? manager?, worker) and is told that they want the finger back because its can be reattached to the kid who lost it.

At this point he has to wonder if he's being lied to and if the finger is going to be taken from him so that the stand could deny any involvment. He probably cannot imagine any scenario where someone handing him a product is unaware that their co-worker lost a finger. He must assume that the act was done with malice.

Did the ka-ching factor kick in or was he so outraged that he couldn't think straight?

[Bippy the Beardless]

The custard was frozen, is it possible that the guy who lost the finger had very cold hands at the time of the loss, and maybe wouldn't notice and scream imediately?

[holmes]

BubbaDog Then Stower takes the finger to the hospital himself or he takes a picture of it or lifts a print or he takes to the police station. He had lots of options to protect himself. Instead he keeps it, knowing that doing so, will maim.

He was able to threaten to call a lawyer, to call the TV, to be 'cagey' as to where the finger was....sounds like he was thinking straight to me.

[Cervaise]

At this point he has to wonder if he's being lied to and if the finger is going to be taken from him so that the stand could deny any involvment. He probably cannot imagine any scenario where someone handing him a product is unaware that their co-worker lost a finger. He must assume that the act was done with malice.Presumably the custard will still be (and those of you with snacks in hand you will forgive the meal-unsafe imagery, because by this point in the thread you deserve what you get) at least partly saturated with human blood. It seems quite reasonable to retrieve and return the severed digit but retain the sanguinated sweetness for evidentiary reasons. What's the shop going to do? "We can't be fingered for the finger, but okay yeah we bled into the food, so do your worst, Mr. Attorney Getting Person."

(In keeping with the pun fest: The movie version of this incident should be titled Cut, Print.)

[Baldwin]

As a side note, the story I read said that this is the second time somebody's lost a finger in the same machine. Sounds like a freakin' Stephen King story. Eventually the custard machine will be chasing people down the street, grinding up small dogs, maybe even running for Congress.

[Tuckerfan]

Has anyone else seen videoclips of Stower? The guy comes off as distinctly odd in the clips I've seen him in.

[ataraxy22]

I once sliced off the tip of my thumb on a deli-slicing machine. I immediately began bouncing around and swearing. I did not continue to slice meat.
My mother used to demo frozen pizza in grocery stores. One day she cut off the tip of one of her fingers and it ended up on a slice of demo pizza. It was subsequently eaten, apparently unnoticed, or perhaps noticed but accepted (though the number of zombie clientele at that store was vanishingly small). No lawsuits or international media attention were ever showered upon that incident.

[descamisado]

This assmunch thoroughly deserves his pitting. I too hope he doesn't see a single dollar out of this affair. He's already getting some of his just desserts though - the entire town now knows what an asshole he is. With any luck he's being spat upon in the street.

"just desserts" -- how funny!

I just had to point that out.

[lorinada]

It still makes no sense to me. If the drive-through employee was close enough to the action to get the bucket, then the drive-through employee must have been close enough to the action to glean what all the hullabaloo was about.

But then, I don't even know what frozen custard is, much less how a stand is set up.

[Mr. Miskatonic]

The article mentions that this is the second time in less than a year that someone's lost a finger in that machine.

Its a custard machine that's tasted human blood. Gotta put it down like Old Yellow. (loads shotgun).

[Derleth]

Gotta put it down like Old Yellow. (loads shotgun).And you're from the planet where movie titles always use OED-vetted English?

(That, or you just shot a very un-Mellow soda can.)

[Mr. Miskatonic]

And you're from the planet where movie titles always use OED-vetted English?

(That, or you just shot a very un-Mellow soda can.)

That soda can also had a taste for human blood.

(reloads)

[PunditLisa]

Lynn Bodoni: The article mentions that this is the second time in less than a year that someone's lost a finger in that machine. Someone needs to look into that.

AdamYax: And lose an eye???

Mr. Mistakonic: Its a custard machine that's tasted human blood. Gotta put it down like Old Yellow. (loads shotgun)

***

::gasping for breath::

You guys are KILLING me! :D

[SteveG1]

Refusing to give someone the finger, and holding onto it in the hopes of getting a handout makes Stowers an asshole.

[SteveG1]

Lynn Bodoni: The article mentions that this is the second time in less than a year that someone's lost a finger in that machine. Someone needs to look into that.

AdamYax: And lose an eye???

Mr. Mistakonic: Its a custard machine that's tasted human blood. Gotta put it down like Old Yellow. (loads shotgun)

***

::gasping for breath::

You guys are KILLING me! :D
Maybe it's like Stephen King's story, and we have us a real life Mangler? :eek:

[I can't believe that's butter!]

But then, I don't even know what frozen custard is, much less how a stand is set up.

Soft ice cream to you? It's like frozen yogurt, only not made with yogurt (and one-hundred times better tasting IMHO).

It's either dispensed out of a specialized cooler or actually scooped.

Stowers had so much opportunity to allow the poor guy his finger back while still making his case. I hope he is made profoundly aware of his error.

[Scoundrel Swanswater]

I sincerely hope that Stower gets awarded a million bucks.
I hope that the 9-fingered kid gets awarded 2 million bucks.

[black rabbit]

There's got to be some kind of criminal charge to file against that Stower motherfucker. And if there isn't, there should be.

Sure, let him have his million bucks for whatever emotional distress was inflicted on him. Then let him give it right back to the kid who he is partly responsible for maiming. Then let him go to prison for assault or something.

Fucking asshole.

[betenoir]

Refusing to give someone the finger, and holding onto it in the hopes of getting a handout makes Stowers an asshole.

Yes. He shouldn't have waited to return it. He really should have pulled his finger out.





(Wonders if anyone will get that.)

[Ike Witt]

Man offers to return finger found in custard. (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/12/custard.finger.ap/index.html). Too late, everybody already realizes you are an asshole.

[tdn]

I sincerely hope that Stower gets awarded a million bucks.
I hope that the 9-fingered kid gets awarded 2 million bucks.
That's ridiculous. Fizer is going to make a fortune doing Frodo Baggins impressions. Why give him even more money?

[Mint Julep]

I still cannot believe what kind of asshats are lurking out there. Stowers is an embarrasment to human life.

[Scotticher]

Agreed.

And if there are "duelling lawsuits" that end up cancelling each other out, the jerk will win and the owner of the custard business will win.

And the poor guy who has to live without his finger for the rest of his life....what about HIM?

[SteveG1]

Yes. He shouldn't have waited to return it. He really should have pulled his finger out.





(Wonders if anyone will get that.)
:D :D :D :D :D :D

[Wile E]

That's ridiculous. Fizer is going to make a fortune doing Frodo Baggins impressions. Why give him even more money?

*sings* Fizer ... of the nine-fingers!

[Tabby_Cat]

As for Fizer here,

He gets to claim against employer for unsafe work environment (Well, he would in the UK) Statutory duty.
Doofus sues him, employer is most probably vicariously liable. It is in Fizer's interest that doofus WINS.
Fizer sues doofus for causing him harm, doofus has owes Fizer duty of care due to his action (keeping the finger), and obviously breaches it, mucho $$$$.
Fizer wins, normally Doofus wouldn't have enough money to pay anyway. But in this case, if he wins against the employer, he has mucho bux, and Fizer can now get paid.


Just a slightly less than WAG. :p