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June 9, 2013 04:09 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mG31OOJBonw/story01.htm
Prosthetics maker does a roaring trade in replacement pinkies forex-yakuza
Shintaro Hayashi, a Tokyo prosthetics maker, spent most of this life making medical prostheses for people who'd lost breasts, limbs, etc, but now does a booming trade in fake pinkie fingers for ex-yakuza gangsters who don't want to broadcast their criminal past (yakuza members who screw up have their pinkies lopped off in retaliation).Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mG31OOJBonw/story01.htm
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