I don't see it leaving the hand.
I'm missing it by blinking I guess.
( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 0:05, archived)

The actual video shows it definitively being thrown.
No shadow of a doubt, he threw the puppy off the cliff.
( Jenk Neptune is a pedant and now I can't fit my sig in, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 0:16, archived)