Man saws off own foot to continue receiving unemployment benefits
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.
Anyone whose injuries are self inflicted for the purpose of a early retirement should not qualify for anything, they should be written off and left to fend for themselves.
which is pretty close to being as cold hearted as what I was asking
notice the question mark???? it means its a question not a strawman, or a ad hominem, a genuine clarification QUESTION, a yes or no response would have been fine... thankyou for the muddy clairification..
now chill out