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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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TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
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To: Outlaw Woman
21
posted on
03/26/2012 9:26:40 PM PDT
by
Steve Newton
(And the Wolves will learn what we have shown before-We love our sheep we dogs of war. Vaughn)
To: marjiwoj
Please don’t give them any ideas.
22
posted on
03/26/2012 9:26:40 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Steve Newton
23
posted on
03/26/2012 9:28:22 PM PDT
by
Outlaw Woman
(The biggest Hate group in America is located in the White House, Congress & DOJ)
To: Slings and Arrows
If only he could have put some of that initiative towards getting a job. Sounds like he’s handy with a saw.
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posted on
03/26/2012 10:05:07 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: dfwgator; Joe 6-pack
Filet of sole,
....and heel
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
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’.....<:
25
posted on
03/26/2012 10:41:37 PM PDT
by
xrmusn
((6/98) Let's start from scratch by voting ALL incumbents out.)
To: Slings and Arrows
The jokes write themselves...something about a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest!
26
posted on
03/26/2012 10:59:07 PM PDT
by
gr8eman
(Ron Swanson for President!)
To: gr8eman
27
posted on
03/26/2012 11:28:57 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: scott7278
Greetings scott7278:
Good news! You can still work with one foot - Im going to go ahead and clear you.
Losin' me foot
gits me a bird, aye?
Cheers,
OLA
28
posted on
03/27/2012 12:58:28 AM PDT
by
OneLoyalAmerican
(In God I trust, all others provide citations.)
To: Slings and Arrows
If this were in the US, he would have had a lawsuit against the saw manufacturer...wouldn’t this have been a ‘foreseeable use’?
To: Slings and Arrows
If this were in the US, he would have had a lawsuit against the saw manufacturer...wouldn’t this have been a ‘foreseeable use’?
To: Slings and Arrows
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.
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posted on
03/27/2012 1:45:38 AM PDT
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I would guess that he’s an immigrant Austrian... likely named Mehmet and not Hans.
32
posted on
03/27/2012 3:53:34 AM PDT
by
Bon mots
("When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...")
To: I still care
Guess what movie he was watching at the time...
33
posted on
03/27/2012 5:48:47 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Me, too. I bet you’ve never collected unemployment insurance. I used to wonder what that was like. That was another era.
To: Slings and Arrows
That was a bit excessive don’t you think?
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:18:35 AM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
To: Outlaw Woman
I always wondered what they put in Spam
Smile
36
posted on
03/27/2012 8:19:29 AM PDT
by
Steve Newton
(And the Wolves will learn what we have shown before-We love our sheep we dogs of war. Vaughn)
To: NCC-1701
Some people are just overachievers.
37
posted on
03/27/2012 9:30:13 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: OneLoyalAmerican
38
posted on
03/27/2012 12:54:18 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
To: Slings and Arrows
39
posted on
03/27/2012 12:58:08 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Lurker
Don’t forget the duct tape.
40
posted on
03/27/2012 1:33:52 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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