After claiming last week that his finger fell off during a poker tournament, former MLB player Jose Canseco told TMZ that the whole thing was a hoax that he cooked up after seeing a fake finger in a Halloween store.
Jose Canseco claimed he accidentally shot himself in the hand last week while cleaning a firearm at his Las Vegas home. He later underwent surgery and posted this photo:
Love you baby no matter how many fingers you have <img src="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v1/72x72/2665.png"><img src="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v1/72x72/2665.png"><img src="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v1/72x72/2665.png"> @JoseCanseco
After the incident, he thanked both the Las Vegas police and his fiancée:
Thank u to all the Las Vegas police officers and fire rescue that came so quickly and made the incident much easier to deal with.
Most thanks to my beautiful fiancé @ModelLeila for saving my life . She was so calm and handled everything perfectly like she was a doctor.
But the story turned awkward Friday when Canseco took to Twitter to tease updates on the accident:
Dam I was playing in a poker tournament last night and something crazy happened to my finger that I shot off and they put back on.
I knew something crazy was going to happen with this dam finger cause it felt like it was falling off.
And then hours later, he delivered the news:
Ok well I might as well tell you .I was playing in a poker tournament last night and my finger fell off .someone took a video of it.
Even admitting that the finger was "smelling really bad."
My finger should have been amputated from the beginning. It was very loose with no bone to connect it.it was also smelling really bad.
A person who captured video of the incident reportedly contacted Canseco's agent:
This guy called my agent and sold him the video.of my finger falling off .it looks kinda funny.lol
I want to see the video I haven't even seen it yet .
Dammm I thought the guy was funny meaning kidding just saw the video .OMG
...and now we are all just left wondering.
