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A little girl is recovering at a hospital after she apparently stuck her hand into the family fish tank and a piranha bit off the tip of her finger this week at their Maine Township home.
The parents suddenly heard their daughter start crying and rushed over to find her finger bleeding. They became frantic when they found the child’s fingertip was severed and automatically believed the culprit was their 65-pound family pit bull, said Frank Bilecki, spokesman for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
They called 911 and an ambulance took her to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where a doctor realized this was not the case.
“He said: ‘This is not a dog bite,’’’ Bilecki said.
Authorities called her father, who was still at the home, and he immediately plunged his hand into the fish bowl, grabbing one of two piranhas.
“He had no fear; these were truly fatherly instincts,’’ Bilecki said. “He grabbed a knife and cut it open and found her fingertip right there.’’
The piece of her finger was taken to the hospital and doctors were trying to re-attach it, but Bilecki did not know if that operation was successful as of Friday afternoon.
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Northwest suburban Park Ridge residents will now be able to swear, legally, thanks to a local law being stripped from the books.
The Park Ridge City Council decided this week to delete a law which made it a crime “to use profanity in any street, alley or public place of the City.” The repeal was part of a broader effort to rein in the number of city ordinances, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Park Ridge Police Chief Frank Kaminski said that though the law is not enforced, it was likely not constitutional in a first place, as it violated freedom of speech.
According to an AP report, the city also deleted a disorderly conduct ordinance, which made using “abusive or obscene language” or gestures illegal. Next on their agenda? An “indecent exposure” law which both outlaws public nudity and officially bans the public wearing of the “opposite gender’s” clothing items.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/park-ridge-repeals-anti-s_n_995899.html
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