Dog Finds Hand After Man Loses It In Fireworks Accident

File this one under "weird but true".

A nurse from Chicago got quite the surprise on Thursday after a man blew off his hand with a firecracker. Cheri Steigert fell asleep after an overnight shift when she heard an explosion and a scream in her Portage Park neighborhood in Chicago.

A few hours later, Steigert let her dog out in the backyard. A few minutes later, the dog walked up to her with a hand in its mouth!

"This is like the first Fourth of July that I had off in three years and I have body parts flying in my yard," Steigert told a local television station.

The victim was identified as 39-year-old Rafat Shejaeya. He is a barber by trade. Thanks to Steigert's dog, Shejaeya may recover some use of his hand, but it's unsure if he will be able to return to cutting hair.

Police say Shejaeya had the equivalent of a half a stick of dynamite explode near him.

Steigert lives about 250 feet from where the accident happened.