The only thing worse than losing three fingers in an ill-advised fireworks experiment and having to lie about it later is having high-and-mighty Hizzoner cluck-cluck about it afterwards:

An injured city firefighter was held up by Mayor Bloomberg yesterday as an example of the dangers of illegal fireworks.

“You saw in the paper today there was a firefighter who lost part of his hand,” he told a crowd gathered at a Fourth of July Parade in Staten Island. “Fireworks can blind kids, they can maim them.”