Posted on 04/27/2013 6:37:08 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Two Spanish scroungers who chopped off their own hands and tried to claim the insurance payout have been exposed as cheats - because they performed the amputations so well.
The unnamed men, whose cases are not linked, both thought they could pocket up to £2million if they could hoodwink insurers into believing unforeseen accidents had caused their injuries.
They are among a wave of penniless desperados in recession-ravaged Spain who are increasingly turning to more extreme measures to make ends meet.
Authorities said the first claimant removed his hand with an electric saw but told insurers it had been ripped off in a car accident.
He then made claims to 11 insurance companies demanding £2million in compensation.
But when medics examined his wound, it became clear that the cut was 'too clean' to have been torn in two.
José Luís Nieto, president of Gesterec, which investigates accidents, said: 'The cut was too clean between the bone for a car crash, which is never so clean.
'This man might have got someone to use a saw to cut off his hand. A surgeon would never have done it.'
The second man chopped off his arm above the elbow and claimed €600,000 from insurers, saying that he had suffered an accident with an electric saw.
Both cases come amid a steep rise in the number of false insurance claims that have been revealed since Spain plunged into recession in 2008.
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An Islamic government would chop the hands off these thieves - but it’s too late for that.
If they get together they can give themselves a round of applause.
There goes the love life...
They thought they had the insurance company in the palm of their hand, but now they’re stumped.
He's a very humerus fellow.
and that’s the long and short of it.
Someone expected this Spanish Amputation....
Ulna-t go for the low-hanging fruit.
Sharia law at work. Punished before doing the crime.
Dumb & Dumber
I have older relatives that grew up in a coal mining area. It wasn't all that unusual for somebody to lose a finger, one way or another, accidentally-on-purpose, for cash payout compensation.
I saw a show years ago about a rash of such incidents in a sleepy Florida town. Probably in the 1960s. Apparently, it was quite the topic of conversation amongst insurance agents across the nation. Very disparate and unrelated incidents, except for monkey see-monkey do aspect. And the $$$, of course.
Sometimes I’d be tendon to agree there, but I never metacarpus I didn’t like...
DESPERADO (Why Don't You Keep All Your Fingers?)
Tune: "Desperado"
Desperado
Why don't you keep all your fingers?
See your hand, how it lingers
For so long now
Oh, you're a plotter
And I know that you got your reasons
This saw that is teasin' you
Can hurt you somehow
Don't you try to fool insurers, boy
They'll see why you're disabled
You know how paople say you've never been that bright
Now it seems to me your left hand
Has been laid upon your table
'Cause you always want the stuff that ain't your right
Desperado
Oh, you ain't gettin' no money
They won't find it funny
They'll charge you with fraud
And brilliant?--oh, brilliant--
Well, that's just how it's appearin'
But you'll only hear the sound
Of one hand applaud
Don't you use both hands when it's dinner time?
The knife and fork make a pair so fine
It's hard to eat your supper with just one
You're losin' half your batting gloves
Ain't it funny you can't fill 'em once you're done
Desperado
Why don't you take off your goggles?
The mind fairly boggles
This ain't no game
Your brain is buzzin'
But there's a buzzsaw before you
You bet your agent will ignore you--
Bet he will ignore you--
You bet your agent will ignore you
Your plan is so lame
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