Man Saws Off His Own Foot To Keep Jobless Benefits – Dumb Criminal of the Day

I feel lucky in that I like my job. I know plenty of people that seem to hate every waking moment spent at work. But I'm not sure I know anyone who hates work more than this guy.

An unemployed Austrian man actually sawed off his foot in order to try and keep himself eligible for jobless benefits.

After his wife and son had left the house, [he] positioned his left leg against an electric saw in the boiler room and severed his foot above the ankle, tossing it a wood stove to make sure doctors could not reattach it to his leg.

His plan worked in the sense that doctors were not able to salvage the mangled and burned foot, however he did nearly bleed to death from the ordeal.

Now here's the really dumb part of the story

His whole plan was to make sure he could keep receiving benefits without going to work, but a job center spokesman in Austria said "lacking a leg doesn't necessarily get you a free pass from work." And that they would look into placing him in a job after he's out of the hospital.

Oops.

[The Indy Channel]

Picture by the half-blood prince, Flickr.

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