Contributed by:
Eric J. Lubbers/YourHub.com
Article Contributed on: 8/10/2007 2:05:53 PM
Author's note: The North Denver News has issued an editor's note (
link) that not only confirms that
this story is a complete hoax, but chastises the world at large for believing that a story in a newspaper with no history of satire might be true. To that I say only that the burden of proof of fact should not be the reader's responsibility.
The
North Denver News is reporting that one of our own, a Denverite named
Thomas Martel, has had his thumbs "whittled" so that he can properly use his new iPhone and other tiny tech items.
This blogger(
link) makes a few interesting comments about the man, but also assumes that Bonnie Brae is a city in Colorado, not the southeast Denver neighborhood that is home to the
city's best ice cream.
The surgery itself is a little perplexing to me, because I would think that really, any dowel-like object (pen, stylus, toothpick, etc.) or even a fingernail could still accomplish the job without the whole "slicing off a piece of your body" business.
There is also the question of what his hands look like now (the story didn't have photos). Symmetry is important in the look of a hand, so significantly smaller thumbs might throw your hand aesthetics completely out of whack.
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Surgically alters thumbs to better use iPhone(link) NorthDenverNews.com