Fun Facts From Florida!: Tampa Woman Jacqueline Wimbush Gets Finger Bitten Off In Fight

Jacequeline Wimbush of Tampa, Florida has lost a fingertip not once but twice. Not unusual in a state where people light fireworks in their dens after too many Miller High Lifes and angel dust. This time, however, it happened after getting into a fight with a woman at a local meat market. At least it probably won’t go to waste:

Wimbush, No. 53, usually came to the market on Sundays but wanted pork chops. She planned to cook them along with chicken wings, black beans, yellow rice and Cuban bread for her children.

Superfluous information! Also, yum. Dinner at Jackie’s tonight. It promises to be finger-licking good:

She was on her cell phone when a woman she didn’t know entered the store and took the next number, No. 54.

Her name was Pamela Bumpers, police say.

Bumpers? This is quickly turning into a Carmen Sandiego mystery.

But soon, a person holding No. 51 gave up and left Bumpers the ticket.

A butcher saw this and skipped to Wimbush’s No. 53.

That seemed to upset No. 54 — Bumpers.

Bumpers bumped Wimbush, police say.

Arms flailed. Punches landed. Wimbush says she reached toward Bumper’s face — and felt a crunch.

“When I looked at my hand,” she said. “I saw she had bitten my finger off. And my finger was on the ground in front of me.”

It was detached just above a pink French tip fingernail that had been scheduled for a manicure that afternoon.

The irony of it all. It’s just like a novel! That unfolds in a place where the only things that ever happen are DNA tests and alcohol-induced seizures. Thank you, Florida.

Woman loses fingertip in Tampa meat market brawl [St. Petersburg Times]