- Text
Beer thief on bicycle crashes Fla. party, hacks father's finger with machete, report says
AP Graphics
(CBS) EAST NAPLES, Fla. - An East Naples father nearly had his finger severed while protecting his daughter and her friends from a machete-wielding man who tried to flee with stolen beer on a bicycle, CBS Tampa reports.
The 42-year-old man was throwing a party for his daughter when an acquaintance showed up and began loading beer into plastic bags. When the host tried to stop him from riding away on his bicycle, the beer thief pulled a machete out of his waistband, according to an incident report.
As the father lifted his hand to defend himself and the partygoers, the man swung the machete and sliced the host's right pinkie finger until it dangled, Naples News reported. The man then fled on his bicycle.
The victim was taken to Physicians Regional Hospital, where a doctor said the finger was stitched back on, a report said.
The incident is under investigation by the Naples Sheriff's Office.
- Report: Okla. teen vanishes while hiking in South America
- Report: NFL player not ruled out as suspect in murder probe
- Report: NFL player questioned in death investigation
- Ex-Playmate pleads guilty in immigrant smuggling case
- Atty: Martin family confident Zimmerman will be convicted
- 4 accused of holding mother, child captive in Ohio
- Ariel Castro, alleged Cleveland kidnapper, appears in court
- Police: Boy, 13, killed sister, 5, with wrestling moves
- Okla. inmate executed in the 2000 death of a couple
- Report: College student kept girl, 13, in his room for a month
- One of US FBI's most wanted nabbed in Mexico
- Calif. widow's home broken into 14 times, says she's leaving
- "Modern-day slavery" case "all lies," suspect's mom says
- Cops: Fla. man beaten, robbed, left naked on first date
- Steubenville teen rapist must register as sex offender
- Ind. woman, sentenced to death at 16, to be released
