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| Teen loses finger at Croydon rave, continues dancing 'because the bass was hard' | Teen loses finger at Croydon rave, continues dancing 'because the bass was hard' |
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| Unwavering hedonism is alive and well in a disused sorting office in Croydon it seems, where a 16-year-old partier "skanked it out for half an hour" at an illegal rave after accidentally severing his finger on the dance floor. | Unwavering hedonism is alive and well in a disused sorting office in Croydon it seems, where a 16-year-old partier "skanked it out for half an hour" at an illegal rave after accidentally severing his finger on the dance floor. |
| "Rave f*cked me up #rumnbass want my finger back...#sh*t #happens," the attendee wrote on Instagram, alongside a picture of him holding a rollie cigarette with his four remaining fingers. | |
| Astonishingly, given the setting of the accident and the fact he partied on undeterred, 16-year-old Josh claims he was sober at the time of the injury. | |
| In an interview with Vice, he explained exactly what went down: | |
| "Well, at about 1AM we were up in the house room, but I don’t really like house so I was waiting for the drum 'n' bass to kick in. As soon as I heard it, me and my mate went down there. Five minutes in, the fire alarm starting going off and everyone was like, "Rip it off! Rip it off!" So I thought I’d give it a go. I was completely sober at the time. I jumped up, grabbed it and my little finger got caught in the case because it was all broken, and as I came to rip it back down, my little finger got ripped off completely." The illegal rave took place in a disused Royal Mail sorting office on Cherry Orchard Road in East Croydon | "Well, at about 1AM we were up in the house room, but I don’t really like house so I was waiting for the drum 'n' bass to kick in. As soon as I heard it, me and my mate went down there. Five minutes in, the fire alarm starting going off and everyone was like, "Rip it off! Rip it off!" So I thought I’d give it a go. I was completely sober at the time. I jumped up, grabbed it and my little finger got caught in the case because it was all broken, and as I came to rip it back down, my little finger got ripped off completely." The illegal rave took place in a disused Royal Mail sorting office on Cherry Orchard Road in East Croydon |
| Asked what he did next, Josh replied: | Asked what he did next, Josh replied: |
| "I looked at my hand and my little finger was gone – the bone was sticking out. It’s the weirdest feeling; one second you’re fine and your little finger is there, and the next second it’s gone. It shoves reality up your backside. I was in so much pain and shock that the first thing that hit my head was the beat and the bass. The bass was hard, so I just ripped off my top, wrapped it around my finger and tied it up as tight as I could and skanked it out for half an hour. My mentality was, 'I’ve only been here for an hour, I’ve paid £10 for this night, I’ve lost my little finger – am I seriously going to go? Nah, I’m going to skank until I can’t skank any more.' After that, my mate dragged me down to the paramedics." | "I looked at my hand and my little finger was gone – the bone was sticking out. It’s the weirdest feeling; one second you’re fine and your little finger is there, and the next second it’s gone. It shoves reality up your backside. I was in so much pain and shock that the first thing that hit my head was the beat and the bass. The bass was hard, so I just ripped off my top, wrapped it around my finger and tied it up as tight as I could and skanked it out for half an hour. My mentality was, 'I’ve only been here for an hour, I’ve paid £10 for this night, I’ve lost my little finger – am I seriously going to go? Nah, I’m going to skank until I can’t skank any more.' After that, my mate dragged me down to the paramedics." |
| The boy asked paramedics if he could just be bandaged up and "rave on", but was told he needed to go to hospital immediately. | The boy asked paramedics if he could just be bandaged up and "rave on", but was told he needed to go to hospital immediately. |
| Pressed as to why he persisted to dance after losing a digit, Josh said: | Pressed as to why he persisted to dance after losing a digit, Josh said: |
| "Well, what can you do? There are fit girls around you, the bass is hard, the music is popping. I didn’t want to be the sore thumb sticking out – or the sore pinky – so I was like, "F*ck it, let's skank on and enjoy it." | "Well, what can you do? There are fit girls around you, the bass is hard, the music is popping. I didn’t want to be the sore thumb sticking out – or the sore pinky – so I was like, "F*ck it, let's skank on and enjoy it." |
| Friends later told him that a "bunch of stoners found [his] little finger and were playing catch with it." | Friends later told him that a "bunch of stoners found [his] little finger and were playing catch with it." |
| Read the remarkable full interview with Vice here. | Read the remarkable full interview with Vice here. |