By Tim Binnall
Authorities in Turkey are trying to get to the bottom of a bizarre mystery spawned by a crow that somehow came into possession of two severed human fingers. The very strange case reportedly began on Monday when security guard Hayrettin Doğan was making his rounds at a gas station in the city of Istanbul. The normally routine patrol took a macabre turn when a crow suddenly landed in front of him and shockingly dropped an index finger as well a thumb onto the pavement. "Initially, we thought it was a joke," one of the other security guards said, "but as we approached, the gruesome reality became evident. The blood-stained fingers were swollen and fresh, leaving us utterly shaken."
The disturbed Doğan dutifully reported the dark discovery to police, who arrived on the scene and collected the mysteriously severed digits. Suspecting that that they may have come from a murder, authorities have since taken prints and DNA from the fingers in the hopes of identifying their owner while also using security footage to possibly track the movements of the bird prior to its arrival at the gas station. While it remains to be seen whether or not these efforts will lead to the source of the discarded digits, should the person have been the victim of foul play and their killer is apprehended, one imagines that they will be profoundly surprised to learn that a proverbial crime-fighting crow was to blame for their downfall.