Tuesday 28 June 2011

The man with 12 fingers and 12 toes

The man with 12 fingers and 12 toes. Yoandri Hernandez Garrido is a 30-year-old Cuban who has 6 fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot and ensures that it never was an impediment to a normal life.
In his village located in the Toa river basin in the province of Guantanamo, the easternmost tip of Cuba, Yoandri is called by his acquaintances as “Twenty-four.”
The young Cuban is married and father of three who have not inherited his “virtue,” as he calls his condition. In his family there is no record of a relative with the same feature.
He cooks at a resort and is a “cayuquero” (driver barge from the river). He confesses that during his military service could even operate a machine gun AKM.
He says that what enjoys most is to walk barefoot or in any open shoes to show his twelve toes and twelve fingers.