Spaniard says he uses his SEVERED FINGER to unlock his phone

Man claims his SEVERED FINGER will still unlock his phone two weeks after it was cut off in an accident and preserved in alcohol

  • Kieran Higgins’ index finger had been severed in an industrial accident
  • He claims that he can use the dead finger tip to unlock his Samsung phone  
  • Higgins, who lives in Spain, had preserved the finger in alcohol for two weeks 

A man in Spain has reportedly proven that he can unlock his Samsung Galaxy phone with the tip of his severed finger. 

Kieran Higgins’ index finger had been severed in an industrial accident two weeks prior. 

Higgins, a semi-retired auditor who lives in Spain, claims that his dead finger tip, which he is keeping in medicinal alcohol, is able to unlock the device. 

Kieran Higgins has reportedly proven that he can unlock his Samsung Galaxy phone with the tip of his severed finger

The shriveled finger tip, which was crushed in an incident involving a crane, even has a hole down the centre where the bone used to run. 

‘I devised a cunning plan to register the fingerprint on my brand new shiny whatsit,’ Higgins told The Register

‘I extracted [the fingertip] from its grave of medicinal alcohol, dried it off and… eureka! … managed to register my dead finger on my phone.’ 

Higgins, a semi-retired auditor who lives in Spain, claims that his dead finger tip, which he is keeping in medicinal alcohol, is able to unlock the device

Higgins, a semi-retired auditor who lives in Spain, claims that his dead finger tip, which he is keeping in medicinal alcohol, is able to unlock the device 

According to Lucas Francese, biometric devices manager at aerospace company Thales, standard technology in the market stops fake fingers, such as those made by rubber or gelatine, from working. 

However, it ‘enables real fingers, dead or alive, to work,’ he told the publication. 

Describing the ordeal of losing his finger tip, Higgins explained that he lived in rural Spain and drove himself to the nearest pharmacy after the accident took place. 

The pharmacy ‘wrapped it in paper’ and told Higgins to drive to hospital, which was another 20km journey. 

Once in hospital, doctors bandaged the rest of his finger and gave him painkillers and antibiotics. 

The shriveled finger tip, which was crushed in an incident involving a crane, even has a hole down the centre where the bone used to run

The shriveled finger tip, which was crushed in an incident involving a crane, even has a hole down the centre where the bone used to run

Higgins, who says his severed finger tip was too badly damaged to reattach to his finger, has since been keeping it in the alcohol jar at home. 

Explaining his decision to keep the severed finger, he told The Register: ‘Keeping evidence and stuff is always a good idea.’ 

‘You never know when it’s gonna turn nasty. So I kept it in case anybody asked me first… because insurance companies never like to pay out.’