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Association of Alternative Newsmedia [4] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 20-26, 2019 Dateline: Canada A man has donated his frostbitten toe to a ODDS Canadian hotel known for its “Sourtoe Cocktail.” According to BBC News, ex-Royal Marine Nick Griffiths, of England, reportedly mailed his toe to the Downtown Hotel in AND ENDS Dawson City, Canada. He lost the toe to WEIRD NEWS frostbite in 2018 while competing in the Yukon Arctic Ultra, an extreme winter Dateline: Arizona marathon held in the Yukon. Participants in the marathon were tasked with competing in An 81-year-old man who is accused of robbing 100, 300 and 430-mile races. Griffiths was a credit union said he wanted to get caught, forced to drop out of the race after developing because his social security payments weren’t frostbite on his left foot, and his big toe had to enough to cover his living expenses. be amputated. He returned to the United According to Fox 10 in Arizona, details of the Kingdom to recover in a hospital. The toe was 2018 robbery were made public earlier this reportedly stored in medical grade alcohol and month at a hearing to determine whether sent to the Downtown Hotel with a letter Robert Francis Krebs is mentally fit to stand from Griffith asking that he be notified of its trial. According to police, Krebs robbed a safe arrival. He also expressed his desire to credit union in Tucson months after being visit the hotel and be the first patron to released from prison on a previous charge. He imbibe a “Sourtoe Cocktail” containing his allegedly entered the credit union, placed a BB own severed digit. The small hotel is famous gun that resembled a handgun on the counter for this unique drink—a cocktail of any type and demanded money. He left with $8,400 and served with a mummified human toe floating was later arrested at a hotel. He allegedly did in it. Those who allow the toe to touch their not wear a disguise during the robbery and told lips while enjoying this cocktail are issued a arresting FBI agents that he “kind of wanted to certificate by the bar. Downtown Hotel get caught” so he could return to prison. He General Manager Adam Gerle said in a reportedly spent 30 years serving sentences statement that the hotel was happy to receive related to bank robbery and embezzlement. the toe. The cocktail has been served for Krebs’ lawyers argued that the man suffers many decades, and toes have been from symptoms of dementia and are asking accidentally swallowed and stolen in that that he be declared incompetent. If the request time. The hotel has solicited the public to is granted, he will be sent to a mental health send in their unused toes, but Griffith’s is the facility where his competency might be first usable donation. Gerle said the hotel will restored. If that fails, the case against him be flying Griffith out to drink a Sourtoe could be dismissed. Prosecutors argue that Cocktail with his own toe this summer.