Man saws off own foot to continue receiving unemployment benefits

yahoo news ^ | 3-27-2012 | yahoo news

[kjam22]

It sounds like the plot of a boring "Saw" film, but it's apparently all-too-real. An unemployed Austrian man cut off his own foot with a mitre saw so he could continue receiving jobless benefits. Hans Url, a 56-year-old from Mitterlabill, then took the foot and cooked it in the oven so doctors could not reattach it. "The planning was meticulous," Franz Fasching, a police spokesman, told the Daily Mail. "[Url] waited until his wife and his adult son had left the house and he was alone. He then switched it on and sliced off his left foot above the ankle--throwing it in the fire so it would not be possible to reattach it before he called emergency services." He "then made his way to the garage where he called emergency services and waited for them to arrive." Url was airlifted to a hospital in Graz, where he was put in an artificial coma so doctors could stabilize him. "The foot was too badly burned to reattach," a hospital spokesman said. "All we could do was seal the wound. He had lost a lot of blood--he almost died on the way to hospital."

[kjam22]

Okay... words can never do this justice. You should go to the website to see the blood stained power saw... Maybe he sat around while he was drawing unemployment listening to "The Hokie Pokie"??

[tet68]

Did he measure it, I mean he cut off a foot.
Did he use a mitre box or do it freehand.

[GeronL]

What entitlement mentality??

[kjam22]

You gotta see the power saw....

[kjam22]

And now he gets good parking at the mall....

[molson209]

Fan of Jabberwocky ?

[Daffynition]

[ChildOfThe60s]

I’m sorry I am such a sick person, but I couldn’t help laughing. Especially at the part where they are going to find him suitable work when he gets out of the hospital.

[a fool in paradise]

Didn’t need to do anything that rash to qualify for disability. Just tell them that you are going to vote to re-elect Obama no matter what. Instant mental disorder claim will be approved.

[a fool in paradise]

That’s nothing, I gave my right arm for the job I’ve got right now. My typing skills ahve suffrd thoug....;’’

[FerociousRabbit]

Entitlements, welfare, food stamps, endless unemployment compensation... all are opiates for the masses. They get addicted to them. They will do anything to get their fix. They will even give their arm, leg or, in this case, foot.

[tophat9000]

Suitable work?...i have visions of a peg leg and a giant cribbage board

[Just another Joe]

Some people are just too stupid to remain alive.

[GeronL]

How many Americans would go to this extreme? Not that they have to.

[kjam22]

Ms Kjam22 and I were both laughing as I read the article to her. She quit when I showed her the saw though....

[kjam22]

The ones that would go to this extreme.... would first have to steal the saw from Sears ....

[GeronL]

With a peg leg and an eye patch he can be a greeter at Pirate Dan’s theme restaurant, heh

[GeronL]

lol

[King Moonracer]

All he had to do was sneak over the border here, and they’d throw money at him.

[mrsmith]

Wow, the guy who invented internet addresses has sunk that low!