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Zoinks! 'Scooby-Doo' Actor Cuts off Thumb

Posted Sep 29th 2009 6:01PM by TMZ Staff

'Scooby-Doo' Actor Cuts off ThumbNick Palatas -- the straight-to-DVD "Scooby-Doo" actor -- just lopped off his thumb.

Nick's manager tells us the actor -- who plays Shaggy in the film -- was working with a table saw this afternoon in Northridge, CA when the saw struck a knot in the wood and suddenly jumped.

We're told the saw sliced off one-third to one-half of Nick's right thumb. Nick dialed 911. Yes.

While in the ambulance, Nick called his mother and asked her to go to his home and retrieve his thumb ... which she obligingly did.

Nick's mother just took the thumb to Northridge Hospital -- but the medical staff concluded it could not be reattached.

Nick is now waiting on a "top Hollywood plastic surgeon" to see if he'll ever get put back together again.

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1. That's a bummer.

Posted at 6:07PM on Sep 29th 2009 by Michelle

2. balls

Posted at 6:08PM on Sep 29th 2009 by balls

3. Ouch! What some people won't do for a Scooby Snack!

Posted at 6:08PM on Sep 29th 2009 by Banana Hammock

4. It is probably cruel to second guess him at this point, but why didn't the ambulance drivers, or Nick, grab the thumb on the way out to the Hospital. Was it unusable because they waited too long, or was it too mangled. Space, Space, Space. Thumbs come in so handy on a keyboard. Space... Pierce Aero, SuperHero!

Posted at 6:12PM on Sep 29th 2009 by Pierce Aero

5. If you're gonna' be stupid, you gotta' be tough.

Posted at 6:22PM on Sep 29th 2009 by Biffington

6. PUSH STICK!!!

Posted at 6:23PM on Sep 29th 2009 by nightcrawler

7. Eeeeeeeeew. He took a page out of the Homer Simpson book.

Homer: "Okay, if the doctor asks you why you cut it off, tell him that you caught me in bed with four beautiful women."

Posted at 6:23PM on Sep 29th 2009 by LakersFan

8. Guess he will not be sticking that thumb up his ass any more :-)

Posted at 6:31PM on Sep 29th 2009 by Stinker

9. Poor guy !!!! I hope they can reattach the thumb part. :(

Posted at 6:26PM on Sep 29th 2009 by tamara

10. I love that agents call TMZ to report this kind of thing. Publicity. Er, I mean, priorities.

Posted at 6:31PM on Sep 29th 2009 by Carla

11. thumb + eBay = $

Posted at 6:33PM on Sep 29th 2009 by genius

12. they can use his big toe....

Posted at 6:39PM on Sep 29th 2009 by this little piggy went to the ER

13. I did the same exact thing to my thumb and than put a tattoo of a saw blad on my Stub! If you can't laugh at yourself than who can you laugh at!!!

Posted at 6:58PM on Sep 29th 2009 by Stu

14. OH BALLS!!! you never let me down!

Posted at 6:51PM on Sep 29th 2009 by Oh Golly!

15. ZOINKS!
Jeepers, this would've never happened with the dandy new twin blade saw. It cuts through anything without kicking.
(what's with the Yes after dialing 911 bit? Schonenfraude?)

Posted at 7:56PM on Sep 29th 2009 by Scooby Don't!

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