Headline of the Week Weak

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"Woman loses fingertip in Tampa meat market brawl"

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Woman loses fingertip in Tampa meat market brawl

TAMPA — The first time Jacqueline Wimbush got into a fight and lost a fingertip, doctors managed to save it.

Not this time.

Wimbush, who has a history of brawling, lost the tip of her left ring finger to another woman at a busy East Tampa meat market Monday, Tampa police say. "Right now it's gone, and there's nothing I can do," she fumed Wednesday.

The separation began Monday before noon when she entered the Aliana Meat Market and took a number, awaiting a butcher's attention.

It was No. 53.

The market, sandwiched between the Hope gas station and an African-themed bazaar, has an outside mural of a cornucopia filled with pigs, hens and cattle. It empties onto the earth like Noah's ark in reverse. The store sells oxtails, beef hearts, cow heads, salted pig tails, hog jaw and burnt cow skin.

Wimbush, No. 53, usually came to the market on Sundays but wanted pork chops. She planned to cook them along with chicken wings, black beans, yellow rice and Cuban bread for her children.

She was on her cell phone when a woman she didn't know entered the store and took the next number, No. 54.

Her name was Pamela Bumpers, police say.

But soon, a person holding No. 51 gave up and left Bumpers the ticket.

A butcher saw this and skipped to Wimbush's No. 53.

That seemed to upset No. 54 — Bumpers.

Bumpers bumped Wimbush, police say.

Arms flailed. Punches landed. Wimbush says she reached toward Bumper's face — and felt a crunch.

"When I looked at my hand," she said. "I saw she had bitten my finger off. And my finger was on the ground in front of me."

It was detached just above a pink French tip fingernail that had been scheduled for a manicure that afternoon.

People screamed, and the staff behind the meat deli separated the fighters.

A friend picked up the fingertip and the staff put it in ice.

An ambulance took Wimbush to St. Joseph's Hospital, where she said she waited several hours with her fingertip in a red biohazard bag.

It felt a little familiar. In 1996, she said she fought another woman at her sister-in-law's house. The woman bit off the tip of Wimbush's right middle finger. A plastic surgeon's skin graft saved it.

But this time, a St. Joseph's hand specialist numbed her finger and amputated part of the bone.

It was the finger Wimbush, 39, hoped a man would someday put a ring on for the first time.

"Why my finger?" she asked Wednesday, her left hand wrapped in pink bandages and her finger in a splint. "I don't know who's going to put a ring on a nub."

She works in day care, where her hands help children with puzzles and art. Before that, she assembled Big Macs and Whoppers at Burger King and McDonald's and punched keyboards and phone pads as a telemarketer.

She's been in some fights. She was arrested 30 times and served prison time for charges including robbery and grand theft, state records show.

In all that time, she never bit off anyone's finger, she said. The worst she did was scratch a woman's face.

"I guess there aren't any rules in fighting," she said, "and I'm a prime example."

Bumpers, too, had prior arrests. She's 33. She pleaded guilty to aggravated battery in 2001, state records show.

Now she faces a felony battery charge.

Released from jail Monday, she did not respond to a request for an interview.

In her booking photo, she looked at ease as she faced the camera.

And showed her teeth as she smiled.

    Posted: Jul 14, 2008 at 9:45 am / Email this  »

    76 comments to “Headline of the Week Weak”

    1. First says – reply to this


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      Not First.

    2. First says – reply to this


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      I Was First… Woohaa!!! take that!!

    3. First says – reply to this


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      I bet you are not 1st or 2nd!… #3, maybe… or not.



    4. 4

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    5. 5

      hah wtf

    6. dngdn says – reply to this


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      dunb cunt.



    7. 7

      wow this is embarrassing and ignorant. She should feel ashamed and so should that other lady. People fight over the stupidest shit.

    8. dngdn says – reply to this


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      also, dumb cunt.

    9. haha says – reply to this


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      IDIOTS !!!!

    10. haha says – reply to this


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      idiots



    11. 11

      DUMB ASS!

    12. balls says – reply to this


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      woot woot Tampa represent

    13. carph says – reply to this


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      so happy she's in child care…



    14. 14

      They let her work AT A FUCKING DAYCARE???? Do the parents there NOT do their research and know that dumb bitches like that are around their kids?!?!!??

    15. Andre says – reply to this


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      Tampa, w00t w00t!

    16. POCAH says – reply to this


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      She was just trying to get money from the place. Sue Sue Sue

    17. haha says – reply to this


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      Thats what happens when you leave the cage door open,the monkeys will get out and cause trouble where ever the go.

    18. mooki says – reply to this


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      LOL monkeys… What are you trying to say?

    19. lynn says – reply to this


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      I would bet money perez barely passed english in grade school- especially the week they worked on summarzing stories! Could you make a short story any long? From now on Perez, have a nice cup of coffee before you hop on the computer- we can wait. Your grammatical errors are already at an all-time high, and it's only 10am!

    20. stfu says – reply to this


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      Re: haha – THE MONKEYS excuse me and wat do you call white people when they act a fool .. HMMMMMMMM love to heard this….

    21. Ultim says – reply to this


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      WHY THE HELL ARE BLACK CHICKS ALWAYS FIGHTING?

    22. Hahah says – reply to this


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      Ghetto black bitches

    23. Kt says – reply to this


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      WTF is wrong with people??

    24. dneez says – reply to this


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      I just want to know what kind of people let someone with that kinda police record work at a childcare??
      If she can't control herself waiting on porkchops how can she deal with lil kids… Lol

    25. caitm says – reply to this


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      Shes been arrested more than 30 times and shes working at a daycare?
      Who the hell hired this bitch?!?

    26. BlueE says – reply to this


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      LOL Talk about chopped meat.

      Nothing to lose a finger over. What a couple of idiots.

    27. joke says – reply to this


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      What happend to number 52? These are some Klassy females!

    28. Nik says – reply to this


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      WOW, way to represent Tampa. I am ashamed…LOL. What a fcuking POS

    29. molly says – reply to this


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      OK why hasn't anybody asked… what happened to #52?

    30. Jess says – reply to this


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      Weird. first?

    31. HaHaH says – reply to this


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      And black people wonder why whites move out when they start moving in.

    32. what! says – reply to this


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      A woman with a violent history and she takes care of kids at a daycare? why am I not shocked.

    33. olive says – reply to this


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      this is the most embarassing story, ever. every detail is as tacky as it can get. the only good thing i can say is that this ignorant display was well reported by the writer. but gosh, do some people ever grow up?

    34. Laura says – reply to this


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      What a poorly writen article. Whatever reporter wrote this needs to go back to journalism class.



    35. 35

      HILARIOUS.
      Lesson : Don't get between a negress and her oxtails and hog jowls.
      Warning : Elect Barack Obama president and this will be the status quo in Wal-Marts, K-Marts, and Targets across the land.

    36. aston says – reply to this


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      Why are women so angry over such trivial things? If fighting over who is next in line is the biggest thing they've got going, their lives must be pretty damn boring!



    37. 37

      crazzzy

    38. Alisa says – reply to this


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      Fucking psycho bitch! What is she Mike Tyson's girlfriend?

    39. njec says – reply to this


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      This is cleary NOT a real story. Any half way intelligent person who reads this can tell it's a satire. But of course Perez reports this as news. Wonder why?

    40. njec says – reply to this


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      This is clearly NOT a real story. Any half way intelligent person who reads this can tell. But of course Perez reports this as news. Wonder why?

    41. dee says – reply to this


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      Re: lynn – the reason perez did not make this "long story short" is because he lifted it, complete, from another publication! faster to just cut and paste then summerize, get it?

    42. mazie says – reply to this


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      Hey all you working Mom's dumping your kids in day care or with a Nanny -this woman was a DAYCARE worker - and if you think she's any different from the types they employ - you're kidding yourself!

    43. Sara says – reply to this


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      So sad and disturbing this woman works in a daycare. America, these are the people that are the mentors and role models to our children! Do you really want this lady being a role model for YOUR child? Disgusting! Although I don't have children currently, I do plan on having children in the future and I'm going to be a PROUD stay at home mom.

    44. hader says – reply to this


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      "I guess there are no rules in fighting anymore."
      yeah, here's the ONLY rule:
      You must be a stupid twat to fight.
      This stupid cunt had this coming for a LONG time.
      Maybe now she'll get her shit together. Next time she could be killed.
      Big loss for the world.

    45. rebec says – reply to this


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      this is the dumbest post yet perez

    46. Mark says – reply to this


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      And you want me to move there???? xx

    47. FUhah says – reply to this


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      Re: haha – F U

    48. FUhah says – reply to this


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      Re: HaHaH – F U again!

    49. FUbra says – reply to this


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      FU "Brazen Hussy" You Fag!

    50. MP says – reply to this


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      Aren't day care workers supposed to be given a background check before they're given the job? The parents should sue the day care for hiring this woman (30 arrests?!). Both of these "ladies" should be put in the same jail cell and let natural selection take its course.

    51. Ewwww says – reply to this


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      Must have been some great meat there. If Perez was there, he would have ripped her fucking head off.

    52. jame says – reply to this


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      Really Nice..



    53. 53

      Re: FUbra

      LMAO!! Calm down people. Why are you getting so upset about what people online have to say??? Who the fuck cares!

    54. jenny says – reply to this


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      you people are retarded, just because they are black and got into a fight they are ghetto black chicks? america is fucked because of people like you.

    55. cooco says – reply to this


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      She needs a downer..every day..some sedetive. too coo coo.

    56. Chris says – reply to this


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      That is what she get's. Why are these grown ass women fighting in a meat store, they were all goign to get served eventually. Some people………….

    57. haha says – reply to this


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      what a couple of dumb bitches. fighting in the meat market. how fucken ghetto. she deserved to get that shit bitten off. and the other women was a sick bitch too. did u see that ugly ass thing in the picture. she put that things dirty ass finger in her mouth. ewwwwwwwwwww. stoopid ghetto bitches rule!!! losers!!!

    58. haha says – reply to this


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      Re: haha – totally agree. good one

    59. Jodi says – reply to this


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      Re: MP

      AMEN!! After about 10 or 12 arrests, you think they would have just kept her in jail. That might have been a better solution than to let some crazy lady run free - especially around children!!! UGH!

    60. haha says – reply to this


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      Re: lynn – shut up u dumb bitch go screw your dog. if you don't like it don't read it cunt

    61. Sean says – reply to this


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      Re: jenny – Uh, no: because they got into a fight over who should've been next makes them ghetto-trash; the fact she is black is secondary, but helps to confirm those racist thoughts in peoples heads. It's situations like this where ethnic people (myself included) need to make better decisions. Think about it: If she would've just dealt with it in her own mind instead of acting out, she would've waited an extra 5-minutes and NOT been the poster child of ghetto-trash. From my experience, anybody whose life schedule cannot handle a 5-minute delay, probably doesn't EVER have to wait for anything nor do they buy their own meat products from a local market.

    62. haha says – reply to this


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      Re: jenny – stfu you ghetto black chic.

    63. iisee says – reply to this


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      OMG! What idiots!

    64. Atika says – reply to this


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      SHE HAS HAD 30 ARRESTS - AND SHE WORKS IN A DAY CARE???!!!
      OMG! Is it even possible? I would not want my children to be looked after by her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(

    65. LisaL says – reply to this


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      WTF kind of people fight over shit like that? Fucking ghetto ass no class trash.

    66. dayto says – reply to this


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      Less see….this douche bag has been arrested 30 times. The sad part of the story is she didn't bleed to death and save society a lot of grief and my tax dollars.

    67. Janet says – reply to this


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      Ilive in Tampa and I read this article in our paper. I used to work in a deli.. both animals are fuckin disgusting.

    68. Nick2 says – reply to this


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      These are two fine youngish women. They are strong, proud, pro-active go-getters. I just feel very uplifted reading about them both. I feel like, myself, along with the two of them, we are just going to conquer the world!!!

      Perizita, thank you for this Monday morning, afternoon, evening, (depending) inspiration!!!

    69. blah says – reply to this


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      bet some parents wont let her watch their kids no more she's been in arrested 30 times and served prison time! and that other bitch is just crazy!

    70. youtu says – reply to this


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      Typical blacks, turn a mountain in to a moe hill, look at them wrong and they want to kill, bump into them and they want to kill, always with the "don't get me started, or the don't let me get ghetto on you, frickin clowns, remember when you come across these clowns, let them have their small victory, let them get the last word, because at the end of the day you go home, and they go back to their pathetic ghetto life, waiting for their next confrontation, where they can get a small victory, for it temporarily drowns out the sorrow in there meager existence.

    71. Niko says – reply to this


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      Re: Ultim

      because theyre black….

    72. seept says – reply to this


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      Re: Ultim – Maybe I missed something, but I didn't see a picture of the alleged "finger biter", so how does everyone know that they both were black? I really don't understand how people are still justifying being racist yet calling others ignorant…Perez, as a fellow minority, you should check your blogs more for these racist comments…I do think they are ignorant for fighting–not because they are "black" (since I don't have any proof of the color of the other woman)

    73. happy says – reply to this


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      Some of you people just make me so sick with your assuming. It's just ridiculous how people still talk. Lots of you people talk and talk about African Americans and how they are ghetto and what other words you use for them but you need to realize that all African Americans are not like that and you also need to take into consideration you do not know their life styles. They could've been brought up in a mansion and still act uncivilized or they could've had nothing you never know. I have worked with kids that are mainly white that act really uncivilized because of the environment that they were growing up in, so it is not just African Americans that are as you say ghetto but also caucasians so make sure you get it right (and by the way African American all the way)

    74. nvt says – reply to this


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      I don't think a "nub" is what will keep her from getting married one day, but the psycho-bitch thing might.

    75. ItsYU says – reply to this


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      I hate the poor.



    76. 76

      If you can't manage to gather dinner without getting into a fight where you actually lose a part of your body, maybe it's time to examine how you are living your life.

      Idiot.