Posted on 03/28/2012 4:57:46 PM PDT by 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."
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That's good. My dad and I played a lot of cribbage back in the day. I wish he was here, he'd be laughing at that image too.
For some reason that reminded me of a joke about the porn actor whose member was 11 inches. He was fortunate it was not an inch longer. Then it would have been a foot and he'd have to find a different line of work.
>> Did he measure it, I mean he cut off a foot.
He’s Austrian — he cut off his thirty centimeters.
He’s gonna miss that foot in jail... when he’s too slow to get out of the shower fast enough ;)
His 99 weeks ran out?
What a gruesome tale. All the more sad and tragic because the abuse was self-inflicted.
I have a compound miter saw like the one in the pic that he used.... I can’t even imagine putting my foot up on the thing and cutting it off on purpose... Holy Cow! Darwin got robbed on this deal...
Remind me never to instruct an employee to “take about a foot off” without being completely clear.
I’d give my left arm to be ambidextrous.
He should go before Congress demanding a handout. They love a good sob story.
One foot. Measure twice, cut once.
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