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Austrian saws off own foot to avoid work: report
Reuters via TImes-Colonist ^
| 3/26/12
Posted on 03/26/2012 8:28:42 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
VIENNA — An unemployed Austrian man on Monday deliberately sliced off his left foot with a mechanical saw and threw it into an oven ahead of a health check on whether he was fit to work, police said.
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The man had mounted the mitre saw on two stools in his boiler room using nails and removed the guard plate before slicing off the foot above the ankle and around 5:00 am (0300 GMT).
Emergency services "looked in the oven and were able to recover the foot ... The foot was taken the hospital but it was so badly burned that it cannot be sewn back on," Fasching said.
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He didn't put his best foot forward.
To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
I've had jobs like that.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:29:55 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I’d rather have my foot.
There’s nothing that interesting on tv.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:32:08 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: Slings and Arrows
He may have been unemployed, but at least he had some dinner in the oven.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:34:07 PM PDT
by
Oberon
(Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
To: Slings and Arrows
To: Oberon
Five. Five. Five dollar foot...
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:36:34 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1161 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: Slings and Arrows
“Well I guess I showed them!”
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:40:15 PM PDT
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: Slings and Arrows
He doesn’t have a foot to stand on. He was defeeted.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:46:01 PM PDT
by
this_ol_patriot
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner)
To: Slings and Arrows
When the sun come
back up,
When the
first quail rooster calls,
Then's the time's come
Follow the Drinking Gourd...
[snip]
Left Right foot, peg foot, ..going on;
Followwww, the Drinking Gourd!...
For the Man was a-waiting
To give you a job....
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:47:10 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
To: Slings and Arrows
“Good news! You can still work with one foot - I’m going to go ahead and clear you.”
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:48:13 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
To: Oberon
"...at least he had some dinner in the oven." Filet of sole, no less.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:49:27 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Joe 6-pack
Filet of sole,....and heel.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:50:40 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: null and void
He would’ve used an electric oven but he couldn’t foot the bill.
He looked for bread to make a sandwich, but he was down to the heel.
It was a Toe-ster oven.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:51:17 PM PDT
by
bleach
(If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Inspiration for a new reality show: “Extreme Slackers”
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:56:58 PM PDT
by
marjiwoj
To: Slings and Arrows
One more time and he is out of excuses,
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posted on
03/26/2012 9:01:32 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
To: HereInTheHeartland
I know what he did to avoid his wife.. And I’m not telling.
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posted on
03/26/2012 9:06:39 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
To: Slings and Arrows
Interesting. It would seem that the insanity we see here is actually worldwide.
I feel better now.
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posted on
03/26/2012 9:09:30 PM PDT
by
Outlaw Woman
(The biggest Hate group in America is located in the White House, Congress & DOJ)
To: Outlaw Woman
This just in: People are nuts. Film at 11.
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posted on
03/26/2012 9:14:40 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
03/26/2012 9:17:01 PM PDT
by
Outlaw Woman
(The biggest Hate group in America is located in the White House, Congress & DOJ)
To: scott7278
“Good news! You can still work with one foot - I’m going to go ahead and clear you.”Presumably not for an ass-kicking contest.
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posted on
03/26/2012 9:25:46 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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