BURNABY, B.C. –
Although Dennis Baker has always been good with his hands, he didn’t realize how much good he could do with them until after a train door cut his finger off.
“The door closed, and the latch got caught on my finger, and it was gone,” Dennis says holding up his hand and stretching out his three remaining fingers. “And wow did it ever hurt!”
But rather than complain about it, Dennis proved to be the sort of person who makes comedy out of it.
“I have a lot of fun with it,” Dennis bursts into laughter after placing the stub of the missing finger up to his nostril to make it look like he’s deeply picking his nose.
Although, Dennis wasn’t laughing when he started noticing broken bikes being discarded in the neighbourhood.
“I was mad,” Dennis says.
After confirming the broken bikes were left behind by families who had moved away, the senior began …