[QUOTE]BARACOA, Cuba -- They call him "Twenty-Four." Yoandri Hernandez Garrido's nickname comes from the six perfectly formed fingers on each of his hands and the six impeccable toes on each foot.Hernandez is proud of his extra digits and calls them a blessing, saying they set him apart and enable him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees to cut coconuts and posing for photographs in this eastern Cuban city popular with tourists. One traveler paid $10 for a picture with him, Hernandez said, a bonanza in a country with an average salary of just $20 a month.
[B]Man With 12 Fingers[/B]
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Yoandri Hernandez Garrido, 37, is known as "Twenty-Four" because he has 12 fingers. Hernandez, who lives in Baracoa, Cuba, is proud of his extra digits because enable him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees to cut coconuts and posing for photographs with tourists.
"It's thanks to my 24 digits that I'm able to make a living, because I have no fixed job," Hernandez said.
Known as polydactyly, Hernandez's condition is relatively common, but it's rare for the extra digits to be so perfect. Anyone who glanced quickly at his hands would be hard-pressed to notice anything different unless they paused and started counting.
Hernandez said that as a boy he was visited by a prominent Cuban orthopedist who is also one of Fidel Castro's doctors, and he declared that in all his years of travel he had never seen such a case of well-formed polydactyly.
"He was very impressed when he saw my fingers," said Hernandez, who is the only one in his family to be born with extra digits.
In a part of the world where people's physical traits are often the basis for nicknames – even unflattering ones like "fatty" or "shorty" – "veinticuatro" ("twenty-four" in English) is not an insult but rather a term of endearment, and Hernandez, now 37, said his uniqueness has made him a popular guy. He has a 10-year-old son with a woman who now lives in Havana, and his current girlfriend is expecting his second child.
"Since I was young, I understood that it was a privilege to have 24 digits. Nobody has ever discriminated against me for that," he said. "On the contrary, people admire me and I am very proud. I have a million friends, I live well."
Nevertheless, it occasionally caused confusion growing up.
"One day when I was in primary school, a teacher asked me how much was five plus five?" Hernandez recalled. "I was very young, kind of shy, and I didn't say anything. She told me to count how many fingers I had, so I answered, "12!"
"The teacher was a little upset, but it was the truth," he said.
Hernandez said he hopes he can be an example to children with polydactyly that there's nothing wrong with them.
"I think it's what God commanded," he said. "They shouldn't feel bad about anything, because I think it's one of the greatest blessings and they'll be happy in life."
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He must be really [B][I]handy [/I][/B]with em. Also, they all seems to be functional, not growth stubs.
nice gallery of pictures in the quote op
also what a cool guy i'd pay 10$ for picture with him
I wonder how it feels when he masturbates
Something is wrong with this article, but I can't put a finger on it.
Extra fingers would mean larger fist and wider foot
What is going on in that op.
Lrn2 Edit article after Copy Pasting entire webpage
people that rated me dumb didn't see this article before it was edited.
He can't flip people the bird...
I'd be proud too. His fingers don't look all fucked like some others do where there is just a little finger growing out of another or in the middle
[QUOTE=PivotDJ;31983270]I wonder how it feels when he masturbates[/QUOTE]
[i]Stranger in the tub[/i]
If they're fully functional and you can control them, heck I would love to have 6 fingers on each hand. Imagine playing instruments.
$20 a month? That's not a lot, i'm just saying.
[QUOTE=T.F.W.O.;31983420]He can't flip people the bird...[/QUOTE]
Either that or he can do it twice.
at first i looked at the picture and saw nothing wrong
then i had a massive double-take
[QUOTE=T.F.W.O.;31983420]He can't flip people the bird...[/QUOTE]
he can flip two birds with one hand!
This is considered news, what has the world come to.
[editline]28th August 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=T.F.W.O.;31983420]He can't flip people the bird...[/QUOTE]
Since it's an uneven number of fingers, he can give people a true "middle finger"
Thumbs don't count. Thumbs never count.
I first looked at the picture and thought it was photoshopped. Bahaha
Title is misleading, thought it was four extra fingers and four extra toes.
:ohdear:
I would definitely pay this guy $10 for a picture with him.
[QUOTE=Somebody_404;31983595]$20 a month? That's not a lot, i'm just saying.[/QUOTE]Well it's Cuba.
He should totally learn how to play the guitar.
[QUOTE=slashsnemesis;31984344]He should totally learn how to play the guitar.[/QUOTE]
Fuck the guitar, he could be the next Piano master!
All the strange stuff happens in communist countries...
Nothing wrong with an extra appendage to be honest, its in a way evolution in work, however we no longer follow those natural selection laws as much. Hell I wouldnt mind an extra finger or two granted they would actually worked.
I had trouble seeing the extra fingers :v:.
What a cool guy.
Mutant and proud.
more important
why was he voiced by a woman?
I wonder if he has two dicks
[QUOTE=Netsc;31984999]I wonder if he has two dicks[/QUOTE]
Or maybe 2 asses...
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I wouldn't mind another finger or 2 if I had full control and they didn't look all fucked up.
On a side note, I actually had to check the picture 3 times or something before I noticed the extra fingers.
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