A Whole New Definition of Giving Them the Finger

We’ve had any number of bozos who were caught after leaving fingerprints at the scene of the crime, but today’s bozo from Glendale, Arizona took it to a whole new, and very uncomfortable, level. It seems bozo Joshua Grier spotted a big spool of copper wire on the back of an air conditioning installer’s truck. Knowing it was worth about $300, he pulled the big spool off the truck and drug it about 20 feet before things went terribly wrong causing him to leave the spool behind and flee the scene. Investigating officers soon found the reason for his hasty exit. Somehow, his finger had gotten caught up in the spool of wire and had been severed. Ouch! Forensic technicians were able to match the fingerprint to our bozo, who offered the lame excuse that he had lost the finger while working on a car. After he couldn’t explain how the finger ended up in the wire, he was placed under arrest.