Yes, English security guard Sean Murphy thought it was a good idea to blast off his wart with a shotgun, and in the process, his own finger too. Murphy decided to use a 12-bore Beretta at a Doncaster garden centre to consign the wart to history, along with most of the middle finger on his left hand.

Murphy, 38, worked as a security officer at Markham Grange Nurseries, Brodsworth, at the time of the incident in March, and has since lost his job.

He had suffered with the wart on the joint closest to the tip of his middle finger for more than five years and claimed it had just become too irritating for him.

He explained:

It was hurting a lot and causing my finger to bend. I’d been to the doctors and tried all sorts of things but it wouldn’t go.

I didn’t expect to lose my finger as well when I shot it but the gun recoiled and that was it.

The wart was gone and so was most of my finger. There was nothing left, so no chance to re-attach it.

The incident landed Murphy in court on charges of “theft by finding,” because he’d found the shotgun three months earlier and had not done anything about it.

Shaun Murphy, minus one times wart and one times finger

Luckily the judge took mercy and he avoided going straight to jail for illegal possession of a firearm – which could have been for up to 15 years.

For its troubles, the wart-shooting cost Murphy 100 hours of unpaid community work, a suspended 16-week prison sentence and £100 in costs.

And yes, he had been drinking beforehand.

[Source: TheStar]