Baby born with 12 fingers and toes

[Catherine Vincent]

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/31/Baby_born_with_12_fingers_12_toes/UPI-29201233431826/

Baby born with 12 fingers, 12 toes

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A baby born in San Francisco has six perfectly formed and functional fingers and toes on his hands and feet, say doctors at Saint Luke's Hospital.

Kamani Hubbard's extra digits look so normal they weren't noticed at first, said his mother, Miryoki Gross, of Daly City.

Extra digits run in the father's side of the family, said dad Kris Hubbard, but none have been so perfectly developed.

Kris Hubbard himself had nubs of sixth fingers removed as a child because they were non-functioning, reported KTVU-TV, San Francisco. That won't be the case with his son, born three weeks ago, because Kamani's fingers and toes function perfectly, said Dr. Michael Treece.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/peninsula&id=6634255
edited for video

[treestar]

1. Evolution

He'll be the best piano player the world has ever seen!

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. I for one welcome our extra-digited overlords. nt

[SharonAnn]

4. Reminds me of a friend of mine who said he couldn't fool around. He carried

the gene for additional digits. So if any child was born near their small town with extra fingers and/or toes, it would be obvious who the father was.

This was before DNA testing.

[BlooInBloo]

3. So..... you're saying if he was a Steeler, he'd have no problem wearing the rings?

[givemebackmycountry]

5. See...

Now that's not only funny, it's timely as well!

BlooILoo

:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

How was yer night?

[BlooInBloo]

6. Was fine until the fuckers decided to sit out for a quarter, ruining my fucking prediction...

But now I'm about to start seriously drinking, so it's all good.

[liberalmuse]

7. Perfect for the times.

Two middle fingers!

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. odd, it appears to be an extra index digit

instead of an extra pinkie digit. I think I read somewhere that eventually humans will evolve to the point at which their pinkie toes and fingers will just run down to nubs. The pinkie toe is practically useless already.

[BlooInBloo]

11. And it wouldn't be odd if it were a ring fingerr?

:rofl:

[Berry Cool]

9. Maybe this kid could help me at my job.

He might be able to keyboard quickly enough to keep up with everything I have to do. Then if he would just grow another pair of eyes...

[TahitiNut]

10. Piano? 12-string? Dobro?

That kid will have to live in warm climates ... he won't be able to get gloves.

Baseball is out. :shrug:

[bridgit]

14. Tootsie Roll...

That's the bit from B.D.Q. Bach where he lays out the studied variations on a cathedral pipe organ's foot pedals ;)

[QC]

12. Anne Boleyn had those, too. n/t

[ferrous wheel]

13. Shit. If this becomes popular, we'll be converting to the duodecimal number system.

;-)

That'll teach those goddamn metric enablers!
:rofl:

[ferrous wheel]

15. He will end up killing Inigo Montoya's papa.

:D

[SKKY]

16. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:rofl: I pissed myself when I read that. It was the first thing that came to mind as well!

[SKKY]

17. He'll be able to type 500 words a minute!

That would be killer! I type a lot at work.

[snot]

18. i can think of a lot of places they might be useful.

[Control-Z]

19. The feet are adorable.

The hands not so much. But I love baby feet, they are just so cute. The parents are waiting to consider surgical correction.

Keep the toes!

[Maru Kitteh]

20. The digits appear perfectly functionable. There is no reason to alter his physiology

until he himself is of an age to make that decision.

[The Straight Story]

21. How will those extra digits impact the environment and me? How will she raise the child?

Oh wait, thought this was an octuplet thread :)