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Pinky-biting victim: New piano lessons
by Mark Silva
Down a finger, William Rice says he has no plans to sue the pinky-biting health-care demonstrator who shortened his little finger the other night after Rice threw a couple of punches at him.
This was no chicken finger, Rice makes clear in his account of the confrontation with a MoveOn.org demonstrator at a rally for health-care reform in Thousand Oaks, Calif., the other night.
"I was confronted by somewhat of a deranged individual, a scuffle ensued, and he ate my finger in the process,'' Rice said in his inevitable 15-minutes-of-fame interview with FOX News Channel's Neil Cavuto.
Rice admitted throwing the first punch.
"Yessir, I did,'' he said. "He came at me calling me an idiot. And when he got close in range I threw a punch.... I threw a second punch and my fist ended up in his mouth.''
It was not finger food, however, Rice got his pinky back and took it with him to a local hospital for some health care. He is 65, so Medicare was taking care of all this for him. (The MoveOn demonostrators were making a case for the "public option'' in health care.)
"Because of the bacteria involved in a human bite, the chances of it surviving reattachment were almost zero,'' Rice said he was told at the hospital. Asked what he'll do without it, he said, "I guess I'll have to take different piano lessons....
"I thought about bringing it home and having it bronzed and wearing it around my neck.''
Asked what he will do about his assailant, if police ever identify him: "I don't wish to sue anybody. I am not a litigious person, but the authorities are looking for him....''
Asked what he might do if he came across the man again, Rice helped define the meaning of a teachable moment: "I think the smart thing for me to do would be to turn around and run.''
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