The Daily Populous Monday July 22nd, 2024 morning edition
Authored by kiro7.com and submitted by Sariel007

TACOMA, Wash. — The case of a mysterious human finger found in a Tacoma driveway earlier this month has been solved and the digit has been returned to its rightful owner.

During the afternoon of July 5, Tacoma Police Department (TPD) officers responded to a report of a finger found in a driveway in the 800 block of South Pine Street, according to a statement TPD Public Information Officer Detective William Muse sent to MyNorthwest.

Muse provided an update in a statement to MyNorthwest Thursday that a person “saw the story” and called the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office, which had taken custody of the digit, to claim the finger.

The man identified himself by his surname and admitted to losing multiple digits “messing around with some fireworks.” Muse didn’t provide the identity of the man who claimed the finger in his statement. He did explain the latent prints on the recovered finger correspond with the information about the person available in the FBI database.

Muse concluded his statement by saying the case hasn’t been assigned to an investigator and added that no criminal charges will be pursued.

Previous information about the human finger found in Tacoma

Tacoma police said there was no blood around the finger and it appeared to have been, possibly, left on the property by an animal, perhaps a bird.

At that time, TPD officers attempted to identify the finger using a portable fingerprint scanner, but no identification was able to be made.

Calls were made to local hospitals, but they didn’t report anyone being treated over the Fourth of July holiday for any sort of dismembering injury.

Buckwheat469 on July 22nd, 2024 at 00:57 UTC »

My uncle was watching his neighbors lighting off fireworks in their trailer park near Tacoma and one guy tried to light a mortar but the fuse burned out before it lit. He took the launcher part off the mortar and found the quick fuse between the launching shell and the bomb, and he decided to light the bomb fuse in his hand and throw it. Well, this neighbor didn't understand that the bomb fuse is very fast and it went off in his hand, splayed open his fingers, and I'm sure he lost a couple. The paramedics came and when asked if they'd seen others get hurt yet, they only said "it's still early" before leaving to the hospital.

shuhweet on July 21st, 2024 at 19:35 UTC »

The dude blew his finger off with fireworks and didn’t even bother going to the hospital? Wtf

kytheon on July 21st, 2024 at 18:17 UTC »

When you give someone the finger, and eventually get it back.