Follow-up on Custard Finger - Not returned to owner, can't be reattached

The Associated Press is now reporting that Clarence Stowers, who found a severed finger in his chocolate frozen custard earlier this week, still has posession of the digit, which he has frozen and is keeping for evidence in a potential lawsuit. (Click above for full story courtesy of the Houston Chronicle.)

We also now have the identity of the poor dude who lost his finger, Kohl's Frozen Custard Employee Brandon Fizer, age 23. When this story first hit the news, some co-workers and I were musing about how much attention the "victim" who found the finger in his custard, and even the finger itself were getting in the media, but what about the REAL victim, the guy who lost a finger?

Apparently, now that Stowers has frozen the severed finger, the cells are too damaged to allow a successful re-attachment to Fizer's hand. Poor guy. If I were him, I'd start a couple lawsuits of my own - one against Kohl's for having unsafe equipment or something (another employee lost a finger on the SAME MACHINE in July 2004, but the State Labor Department found the worker to be negligent, not the company. Maybe they'll change their song soon... and if not, how many more fingers will it take?); and then a seperate lawsuit against the jerk who wouldn't give back my finger for medical attention and re-attachment!

If there are any updates to this case, I will be sure to post them here!