Jesse James posts photo of his severed finger on Instagram

Jesse James promotes his new book
"American Outlaw" at Barnes & Noble 5th
Avenue in New York on May 5, 2011.
UPI /Laura Cavanaugh
AUSTIN, Texas, May 22 (UPI) -- U.S.
reality TV personality and motorcycle
customizer Jesse James accidentally
severed the top of his pinky finger, then
posted a photo of it on Instagram.
"Doesn't look like this little dude's gonna
make it. Nice know'n you little buddy,"
he said in a message accompanying the
gory image Tuesday at http://
instagram.com/p/ZlilYUxmkM/#
I was working in the shop today, and my
glove got caught in one of my machines
and it just took my finger off," he later
told TMZ. "My wife [Alexis DeJoria] and I
were on the floor looking around for the
piece of finger so we could put it on ice
and haul ass to the hospital. ... They're
totally trying to give me morphine, and
I'm like: 'No, I'm fine, I'm cool. I'm all
right. I can just take the pain.' I don't
like the way stuff like [morphine] makes
me feel. I'd rather just feel a little bit of
pain."
James, 43, went on to say doctors were
unable to re-attach the severed pinky
part.