Dog Retrieves Hand After Man Loses It In Firecracker Explosion

[NWCorona]

Source: CBS

A Chicago nurse got a rude awakening Thursday afternoon when a man in her Portage Park neighborhood blew off his hand with a firecracker – a body part that was found hours later by the nurse’s dog.

Cheri Steigert normally works the overnight shift and was sleeping around 3:30 p.m. when she heard a large explosion and a scream.

She learned that a man had been injured in a fireworks explosion and lost at least two fingers. A few hours later, she learned it was even worse.

Steigert let her dog out in the yard, and it returned with something in its mouth and dropped the item – a bunny rabbit, she thought, at first....

Read more: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/06/30/dog-retrieves-hand-after-man-loses-it-in-firecracker-explosion/

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"The hand was found about 250 feet away at Steigert’s residence, on West Dakin."

I think it was more than a firecracker!

I remember I used to light ladyfingers between my fingers when I was a kid. I'm so lucky to have made it intact!

[shenmue]

1. Yipes

[Orrex]

2. At least it wasn't the hand that feeds him.

[TomCADem]

5. Funny, but Incredibly Inappropriate

[NWCorona]

10. True but it's not like this guy was an innocent victim.

[Craig234]

16. Oh come on

We don't need that sort of judgmentalism

Tragedy for the guy.

[NWCorona]

17. Yes, you are right. It's bad taste to kick someone when they are down

[XemaSab]

19. Wasn't the foot that was in bad taste

n/t

[Orrex]

30. I guess I'm sorry that he was injured while detonating illegal fireworks

Every year people are injured or killed by illegal fireworks, and while it's always sad, they're illegal for a reason.

I imagine that this is not how he hoped to declare his independence.

[El Supremo]

7. Thread winner!

So far.

[Blandocyte]

28. You win the interwebs today!

Don't let the humor haters tarnish this victory! Tell them to spend their time un-knotting their knickers.

[Mendocino]

3. I refer to July 4th as

Darwin Day.

[NWCorona]

4. I love fireworks but you are right unfortunately.

[scscholar]

26. And the day that the police arrest so many people...

so many people. They're all Republicans so we don't care.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Did she need a hand for something?

[meow2u3]

20. That was tacky

[ailsagirl]

8. Every year something like this happens-- sometimes a lot worse

Fire crackers are illegal in my county, tho' one always hear them popping before, during, and after 4th of July

Every year I wonder if some idiot isn't going to start a fire

[NWCorona]

9. Yes, sometimes much worse

[roamer65]

11. Her dog was giving her a hand.

Literally.

[Ptah]

12. That was not a firecracker:

"a firework equivalent to a half-stick of dynamite."

[benld74]

23. When I was a kid most likely an M-80

[Person 2713]

38. M 80 is 1/4 stick . They sell 1/2 stick too . In areas like where this occurred they blow em off

in the alleys where technically ... No thing or no one will get hurt (if you run fast enough )
Big boom sound off the surrounding garages because it is surrounded

Edit to add fireworks are illegal here. They are mostly coming out of Indiana where it is legal and there are stores at the state line border

[benld74]

13. Have to wonder if alcohol was involved

[roamer65]

14. Usually is.

[NWCorona]

15. 90% probability IMHO

[Warren Stupidity]

18. If that were my late and great fetchaholic she would have impatiently waited for that hand to

go flying away again.

[romanic]

21. Yikes

Just another reminder to stay away from fireworks.

[christx30]

22. I'm going to stay home and play

with my dogs that night. Keep them distracted from the illegal fireworks people are going to be popping off in the neighborhood. They always get really scared.

[LakeArenal]

24. Who's a good boy...?

[keithbvadu2]

25. Do the Google for idiots who fire (try to) bottle rockets from the crack of their butt.

The stupid. It burns.

[Scootaloo]

27. I once had a bottle rocket do a flip and land in the crook of my arm.

Melted off a nice strip of skin down to my wrist.

It's a nice scar to show to my nieces when I tell them why it's just the adults who get to handle the flaming explosives.

[elmac]

29. In Michigan

the only bill the dems got passed & signed was to legalize fireworks. Now ever excuse for a celebration turns once quite neighborhoods into war zones.

[EL34x4]

31. I still have my hands thanks to guys like this...

...and their ability to provide clear demonstrations as to why fireworks are dangerous.

Sometimes your purpose in life is to serve as an example to others.

[NWCorona]

34. True!

[packman]

32. The hand was found 250 feet away!!

That was NOT the little red-firecracker of my day.

Still carrying a leg scar from a firecracker my brother threw it at me. Yah, we were throwing firecrackers at each other - and it didn't go off. So after the "battle" I surveyed the battlefield and saw this unfulfilled cracker and for some reason still a mystery to me put it into my jean's pocket. Sure, the damn thing went off a few seconds later and, yes, it hurt like hell. Worse was my brother laughing his ass off as I screamed and hopped about on the sidewalk. Even more embarrassing was pulling down my pants as my mother treated the seared upper thigh with iodine and Vaseline .

[NWCorona]

33. I used to have Roman candle wars when I was a kid and have a few scars to prove it

But luckily nothing remotely as bad a this.

And yes I've been a victim of slow fuses as well.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

35. Now that's a good dog

[Odin2005]

36. 250 feet? Must be one powerful firecracker.

[Blandocyte]

37. practicing his handoff before football season.

Dedication.