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Demetrius Burnett: Croquet Mallet Attack Leaves Victim with Missing Finger

By Chad Garrison in bizarre
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 10:15 am
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​Croquet. It's such a dignified sport. A game to be played in the backyard while eating finger sandwiches and drinking lemonade. Or you could play croquet like Demetrius Burnett. That's when you abandon the game's ball and wickets and use the croquet mallet to savagely attack your ex-girlfriend's new lover. Riverfront Times has the story.

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Sam
Sam

How in the world do you chop off somebody's finger, no, worse - RING finger, with a croquet mallet???? My brain does not compute.

Laura_RT
Laura_RT

Had to have been pure pressure that knocked it off. Not the kind of injury you'd expect from a crochet mallet...

Sam
Sam

Right? Especcially knocking off one of the fingers but leaving the fingers on either side in situ!

Actually, thinking about it it might not have been so hard, depending on how the victim was holding his hand. My then 3yo managed to get his hand stuck in a door and chop the tip of his ringfinger off without even bruising the fingers on either side.

My2Cents
My2Cents

Was trying to figure that one out myself.