The story of a Priest Lake fish swallowing a wakeboarder's severed finger has gone national, as you can imagine. Colleague Scott Maben did a terrific job tracking down the wakeboarder for his story in the SR today. In my 42 years in the news business, I've never written anything like the 4 paragraphs that close Scott's story:

The sheriff’s office offered to return the finger to Galassi, but he declined.

“I’m like, uhhh, I’m good,” he said.

Johnston said the agency will keep the digit for a few weeks just in case Galassi changes his mind.

“There’s still three more, too,” he noted. “It’s hard to say where those are going to end up.”

Thoughts?