FINGER FOUND

When a thief broke into a house in the middle of the night, he disturbed its occupants by smashing a window as he climbed in. Soon lights began to come on and he heard the noises of the householders upstairs. In his rush to escape, he left rather more than a few fingerprints behind. As he climbed back out though the broken window, he managed to slice his finger off, leaving it behind as evidence. After the police arrived they put out an appeal on local radio, requesting that the burglar go to the local hospital where surgeons were waiting to sew his finger back on. Faced with the prospect of a short prison term or the rest of his life being deficient in the digit department, the man had little choice but to turn up at the hospital and get stitched up in every respect.

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