Man Stabbed Self To Keep Job: Torn uniform pants led Blockbuster worker to hatch bizarre plan

The Smoking Gun ^ | 11/03/2009 | TSG

[iowamark]

NOVEMBER 3--Meet Aaron Siebers. The 27-year-old Denver man, a Blockbuster employee, was skateboarding yesterday afternoon when he fell and ripped his uniform pants. Due to work last night--and concerned about getting "written up" by Blockbuster superiors for not wearing his work-issued khakis--Siebers came up with a harebrained idea. Instead of just calling in sick, he stabbed himself in the leg and showed up at work claiming to have just been attacked by three Hispanic males. Siebers, who told cops he was assaulted as he walked toward the Blockbuster in Edgewater, had a deep stab wound in one leg and several other minor cuts on his face and stomach. As investigators began hunting for the assailants, they reviewed surveillance video from outside a Target store where Siebers claimed the attack occurred. The footage, however, showed no such assault. Confronted by cops, Siebers, pictured in the below mug shot, admitted that he had stabbed himself. He told investigators about the skateboarding accident, the resulting ripped pants, and how "he did not want to lose his job so he stabbed himself in the leg," according to an arrest affidavit sworn by Officer Shawna Naumann. As a result, Siebers was named in a criminal complaint charging him with filing a false report and obstructing police, both misdemeanors. (3 pages)

[iowamark]

[marvlus]

Candidate for Darwinian of the Year award.

[iowamark]

Police report at the link:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/1103091stab1.html

[1776 Reborn]

This guy is only 27? He looks good in this uniform.

[gimme1ibertee]

Color me stupid,but wouldn’t it have made more sense to just sew the pants and go to work??

[Kakaze]

I had to look......I actually had a college room mate stab himself in the thigh at a rest area after his girlfriend dumped him.

Simply crazy.

[FatherofFive]

Candidate for Darwinian of the Year award.

Really? I thought you had to remove yourself from the gene pool to get that award.

[Mr. K]

27 years old, works at blockbuster, skateboarding...

Let me guess - still lives at home too? or is this guy just an absolute catch for some young girl!!

I think we need to raise the voting age to 30

[KarlInOhio]

Buy new pants? Stab self? Buy new pants? Stab self?

Blockbuster must have some pretty good insurance if stabbing yourself and getting stitched up is cheaper than a new pair of khaki pants.

[oh8eleven]

27-years-old ... skateboarding?

[omega4179]

Obamas mismanagement of the economy causes this tragedy.

[Albion Wilde]

Nice tat, moron.

[Albion Wilde]

...referring to the moronic skateboarder in the above post, not to you.

[Chong]

Actually, I feel sorry for this guy in an odd way. The best he could come up with was to stab himself and actually carried it out for fear of losing his job at Block Buster? Poor thing.

[IrishPennant]

Let me guess - still lives at home too?

I would bet on it...as much as I would bet he had other pants he could have changed in to had he been able to locate them in his bedroom located deeeeep within his parent's basement...

[NMEwithin]

Ladies and Gentlemen...The future of America

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Wow, I thought Neanderthal Man was extinct.

[GeronL]

He did not take himself out of the gene pool. yet.

[GeronL]

He should be charged with stupidity

[teenyelliott]

Buy new pants? Stab self? Buy new pants? Stab self?

Made me laugh.

[IYAS9YAS]

27-years-old ... skateboarding?

Suspended/revoked license?

[CSM]

“27 years old, works at blockbuster, skateboarding...”

I wonder what name he uses on DU....

[Tenacious 1]

I think we need to raise the voting age to 30

...and limit voting to only folks who actually pay federal income taxes?

[Maurice Tift]

When I want to distract attention from my torn pants, I just put on the bunny ears and the fake arrow through the head novelty item.

[jacknhoo]

Look at all the piercing scars and couple that with his stabbing himself for the most ludicrous of reasons...this man truly does have a mental disorder.

[bytheBook]

Good eyes. I did not recognize those pock marks at first as piercing scars, but now I do. Self mutilation does not reflect good character or good sense.

[Mr. K]

OBAMA VOTER???

[VeniVidiVici]

Another job saved or created!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!