Man saws off own foot.....

[oakranger]

.....to continue receiving unemployment benefits!  Dam fool almost die from lost of blood.   

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."

According to the Austrian Times, Url had complained before the incident that he was too sick to work and "didn't like the work he was offered."

The kicker: According to the paper, being footless does not necessarily qualify Url for unemployment compensation.

"He will be assessed once he is out of hospital, and we will see what work we can find for him," Hermann Gössinger, a spokesman for the employment benefits office, said.

[Nathan60]

thats either mental illness or, just lazy to  the nth power

[oakranger]

thats either mental illness or, just lazy to  the nth power

Well, we can rule out lazy or he would not have bother to cut his foot off.

[coombz]

he saw his benefits walking off...he was trying to get a step ahead of the system

the taxpayers are gonna foot the bill for this

[Slate]

 

he saw his benefits walking off...he was trying to get a step ahead of the system

the taxpayers are gonna foot the bill for this

   Thought he could just hop into the unemployment line?
              He now has a use for those unmatched socks.
              Maybe he had two left feet.
              Cops can't make him walk the line when he gets pulled over.
              .........oh well I'm stumped.............    

[Nathan60]

dude hot-footed it to the unemployment line/looney bin

[SFRT - Frenchy]

He sure started on the wrong foot with those unemployment people. He sure did put his foot in his mouth on this one. I'm amazed he didn't got cold feet about the whole thing, sad he didn't land on both feet. He now will have to live his life one foot at a time.

[Dragon]

His recovery is slow, but he is making baby steps.  Unfortunately, he will have to bear this crutch for the rest of his life.

[madhogg]

W o w   : O

[68valu]

I'm sure the employment office will make sure he puts his best foot forward in the future!

[Pigslilspaz]

Couldn't he have just worked at IHOP?

[Seanaldinho]

You guys are cutting me up 

[ink]

 

[Pigslilspaz]

I think a judge is going to have to put their foot down on this.

[ozrocker]

Fox Network will buy him Prosthesis, he'll win on Dancing with the Stars.



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