# Man gives warts the finger **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704 "2011-06-16T16:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/1 "2011-06-16T16:18:32Z")
[Link](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43423785/ns/world_news-weird_news/) Basically, an English chap got so fed-up with a wart on his middle finger that he used a shotgun to remove it (and most of the finger as well). I bet myself before I read the article that the guy was from The South. Nope, the north, Yorkshire, to be exact. As commented on in the article, it’s a good thing it wasn’t genital warts! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/2 "2011-06-16T16:24:47Z")
_Luxury._ In my day, when we had warts on our faces, our parents would hold us down and hack them off with broken glass and rocks. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/3 "2011-06-16T16:25:52Z")
Wonder why he didn’t just go to the dermatologist. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/4 "2011-06-16T16:32:30Z")
Now that takes shooting the bird to a new extreme. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/5 "2011-06-16T16:37:04Z")
Mandatory _Simpsons_ quote: “A gun is not a weapon, Marge. It’s a tool. Like a butcher knife, or a harpoon, or… uh, a… an alligator. You just need more education on the subject.” ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/6 "2011-06-16T17:47:51Z")
Yorkshire born, Yorkshire bred, strong inth arm, thick inth 'ead. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/7 "2011-06-16T18:14:03Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > _Luxury._ In my day, when we had warts on our faces, our parents would hold us down and hack them off with broken glass and rocks. You were lucky to 'ave glass! Our parents would scrub us facedown on traffic spikes during rush hour on the freeway. ---
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/8 "2011-06-16T18:14:41Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > _Luxury._ In my day, when we had warts on our faces, our parents would hold us down and hack them off with broken glass and rocks. In my day, when we had warts on our faces, our dad would just kill us and dance about on our graves. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/9 "2011-06-16T21:58:16Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > In my day, when we had warts on our faces, our dad would just kill us and dance about on our graves. You had warts? Luxury! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/10 "2011-06-16T22:09:41Z")
It was self-defense. That wart was coming right at him. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/11 "2011-06-16T22:15:51Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > In my day, when we had warts on our faces, our dad would just kill us and dance about on our graves. But if you try to tell young people today how it was, they don’t believe you. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/12 "2011-06-16T22:43:16Z")
Some warts just need killin’… ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/13 "2011-06-17T01:02:12Z")
When I wart seventeen, it was a very good year. Stupid Englishman. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/14 "2011-06-17T01:52:59Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > _Luxury._ In my day, when we had warts on our faces, our parents would hold us down and hack them off with broken glass and rocks. Hey, **M**? You forgot “and we _liked_ it!”;)😃 Your pal Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/15 "2011-06-17T18:08:24Z")
Something tells me alcohol played a role in this incident. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/16 "2011-06-17T19:45:46Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > Something tells me alcohol played a role in this incident. It certainly is one of those situations where a person should claim to have been drunk if he wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Junkman209](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/junkman209/32/5522_2.png) [@Junkman209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junkman209)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gives-warts-the-finger/585704/17 "2011-06-17T19:55:57Z")
[Wart blasted off with shotgun](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8577572/Wart-blasted-off-with-shotgun.html) > [@](#): > > Having decided to use the Beretta, he administered the “anaesthetic” of Yorkshire bitter. > > He stretched out his left hand, pointed the end of the barrel at its intended target, and used his other hand to hold the stock steady. Then he pulled the trigger. > > Murphy denies that the beer affected his aim. He insists the fault lay with the weapon’s recoil. Yea, I’d say beer affected his aim, in spite of his claim.