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TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A family in Tampa, Fla., discovered part of a human finger inside its dinner, their attorney alleges.
Lawyer Thomas Parnell contends Connie Edwards and her family were eating together June 28 when she suddenly found the appendage in the oxtail they were having for dinner, The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune reported Friday.
"She took a fork and peeled it off to see what it was," Parnell said of the discovery underneath some gristle. "It looked like the end of a finger. The first joint down to the whole nail and everything."
The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office later confirmed the finger was from a human and an investigation had began, the Tribune said.
Associate Medical Examiner Leszek Chrostowski said the discovery of the finger, which may lead to a lawsuit from the family, was definitely something out of the ordinary.
"Initially, all of us thought it was artificial, that it was a practical joke -- a Halloween-type thing," he told the Tribune.
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