By The Canadian Press

Woman loses finger to waterslide at WEM

Aug 15, 2018 | 10:40 AM

SASKATOON – A Saskatoon woman is recovering after losing a finger on a waterslide at the West Edmonton Mall.

Claire Clark was celebrating her granddaughter’s birthday at the mall’s water park she decided to take a ride on a slide called the Corkscrew.

On her way down she was grabbing something and got snagged and says her finger was literally ripped off.

Clark’s 28-year-old daughter found the finger and pointed it out to a lifeguard, who dove into the pool to retrieve it and the ring.

Surgeons could not sew the finger back on.

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Clark wants the mall to advise people who are wearing jewelry to take it off before they go down the waterslides.

She says she’ll never go to a water park again.

West Edmonton Mall has declined comment.

(The Canadian Press)