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• When police officers in Orem, Utah, pulled over Victor Chavez-Zuniga, 27, for a broken headlight on Feb. 9, they discovered that he had several outstanding warrants, The Smoking Gun reported.
As a result, they searched him and found something "extra" in his wallet: a severed finger in a cloth wrap, which had "what appeared to be pus and blood on it" and "was beginning to turn green and the fingernail appeared to be decayed."
Well, gross. Officer Bryce Mondragon also noticed a "foul smell."
Unfortunately, the mystery lives on: The court filing does not say who the finger belonged to or why Chavez-Zuniga had it, but he was held on a charge of desecration of a dead human body, among other charges. [The Smoking Gun, 2/11/2022]
• On Feb. 10, as a 38-year-old man walked with a friend and his two children in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, he felt an unexplained sharp pain in his lower body.
Later, at the emergency room, doctors discovered he had been shot, Oddity Central reported. But the man and his companions heard no gunshot and saw no one with a firearm: "An accident, a crime, a shot fired from afar -- we're not ruling anything out at the moment," said Matthias Graf, a police spokesman.
Investigators are hoping the public can help; for now, they believe an air gun or a small-caliber weapon was used from a great distance, as a larger bullet would have caused more damage.
The man is recovering. [Oddity Central, 2/17/2022]