Austrian saws off own foot to avoid work: report

Reuters via TImes-Colonist ^ | 3/26/12

[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.

[Steve Newton]

Spam??

[Slings and Arrows]

Please don’t give them any ideas.

[Outlaw Woman]

huh?

[Secret Agent Man]

If only he could have put some of that initiative towards getting a job. Sounds like he’s handy with a saw.

[xrmusn]

Filet of sole,
....and heel
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It puts a whole new meaning to ‘putting ones foot in ones mouth”.

I apologize to the folks ‘down under’ as I first read the headline as Australian and it didn’t really seem very ‘shocking’.....<:

[gr8eman]

The jokes write themselves...something about a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest!

[Slings and Arrows]

That’s the one.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings scott7278:

“Good news! You can still work with one foot - I’m going to go ahead and clear you.”

Losin' me foot

gits me a bird, aye?

Cheers,
OLA

[survivingcalifornia]

If this were in the US, he would have had a lawsuit against the saw manufacturer...wouldn’t this have been a ‘foreseeable use’?

[survivingcalifornia]

If this were in the US, he would have had a lawsuit against the saw manufacturer...wouldn’t this have been a ‘foreseeable use’?

[I still care]

This man probably was unfit to work. I mean, would you want anyone this crazy working for you?

Shame he didn’t cut off his head - that seems to be the really broken part.

[Bon mots]

I would guess that he’s an immigrant Austrian... likely named Mehmet and not Hans.

[Oberon]

Guess what movie he was watching at the time...

[Silentgypsy]

Me, too. I bet you’ve never collected unemployment insurance. I used to wonder what that was like. That was another era.

[NCC-1701]

That was a bit excessive don’t you think?

[Steve Newton]

I always wondered what they put in Spam

Smile

[Slings and Arrows]

Some people are just overachievers.

[scott7278]

Aye, Matey!

[Lurker]

Measure twice, cut once.

[Slings and Arrows]

Don’t forget the duct tape.