Birth defect

This was unlike any birth defect Rock had seen. Someone emailed him a photograph of the three referees scheduled to officiate a high school basketball game he would watch the following evening, and he was immediately nauseated by it.
One of the referees had what looked like a human hand attached palm down where his right ear should have been. Rock's first thought was that it had grown there, but his friend Tim Cooper, who assigned many of the events Rock covered, explained that the man was born that way.
"At first, doctors said they thought the merger developed in his mother's womb with his head pressed against one of his hands, but then they noticed he had two perfectly normal hands at the end of his arms," Tim said. "Later on, they worried that perhaps they had overlooked a twin child. I mean, they couldn't imagine any other ways to explain the extra hand."