Hillarysworld

File this under "yuck".

Seriously, though, looks like the moveon crowd is taking things to the next level.

"One man bit off part of another man's finger when a health care reform demonstration turned violent.

William Rice said doctors did not reattach the bitten-off part of
his left pinky after he got in the middle of a Southern California
rally Wednesday night that he said was "very scary."

"I didn't go out to demonstrate my beliefs, I happened to be driving
by and I stopped to ask people what their purpose was," Rice, 65, said
in a telephone interview Thursday. "I had no signs, I was not part of
the demonstration."

About 100 demonstrators in favor of health care reform had gathered
on a Thousand Oaks street corner for an event organized by MoveOn.org.
About 25 counterdemonstrators gathered across the street.

Rice declined to say Thursday which side of the debate he falls on.

Ventura County sheriff's spokesman Eric Buschow said a confrontation
erupted after the biter crossed from the MoveOn.org side of the street
to the counterprotest, where Rice was standing.

A loud scuffle ensued, punches were thrown, and the tip of Rice's finger was bitten off, Buschow said.

The biter fled before authorities arrived. He could face felony mayhem charges."

"Rice was treated at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center. The top
joint of his pinky, including his whole fingernail, was severed,
hospital spokeswoman Kris Carraway-Bowman said.

She said his treatment was covered by Medicare.

Rice said he and his attacker did not have a conversation about
health care unless "you want to call him screaming in my face that I'm
an idiot a conversation."

MoveOn.org spokeswoman Ilyse Hogue said in a written statement that
the incident is a "regrettable act of violence" but the group had few
facts about the situation.

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