Confrontation

Man's Finger Bitten Off in Scuffle at Health Care Rally

About 100 protesters sponsored by MoveOn.org were having a rally supporting health care reform.

A group of anti-health care reform protesters formed across the street.

A witness from the scene says a man was walking through the anti-reform group to get to the pro-reform side when he got into an altercation with the 65-year-old, who opposes health care reform.

The 65-year-old was apparently aggressive and hit the other man, who then retaliated by biting off his attacker's pinky, according to Karoli from DrumsnWhistles, who attended the rally.

You see America, this is why we can't have nice things! Things like intelligent political debate, informative town halls, or useful public demonstrations.

But that's not the end, oh no. The reform opponent who accosted a reform supporter and got his finger bit off was able to have his finger reattached and was released from the hospital that same day. Why? Because he had government run socialized medicine Medicare. I wonder if he paused to note the irony before he went to call up all his friends to tell them about how he got his finger bit off by a hippie, just because he had the temerity to assault him while yelling about socialism. I doubt it.