Man cuts off foot in bid to avoid work

[kingwilly]

Man cuts off foot in bid to avoid work

An unemployed Austrian man who feared his jobless benefits would be cut off has sawn off his foot and thrown the remains in a furnace in a bid to render himself ineligible for work.
Hans Url, 56, was due to undergo a medical examination after job centre staff challenged his claim that he was too sick to work, the Daily Mail reports

Mr Url reportedly waited until his wife and son left his home in Mitterlabill, southern Austria, on Monday and placed his leg on a circular saw, severing it above the ankle.
Before calling an ambulance, Mr Url threw his foot in a furnace to eliminate any chance the appendage could be reattached.
Paramedics arrived to find Mr Url near death from loss of blood.
Mr Url was then airlifted to Graz where he was in a stable condition following emergency surgery to seal the wound.
The next day he was transferred to the psychiatric unit of the hospital in Graz.
His wife Monika told an Austrian newspaper her husband had expressed regret over the incident.
"He apologized to me and told me how sorry he was," Ms Url said.
"He wants to work, but gets nothing suitable … my husband felt so worthless."
Mr Url has been unemployed, with brief stints of work, since 2003.
In 2010 he spent 11 days in a Graz psychiatric unit.

[taxexile]

reminded me of the late great peter cook and dudley moore

[Fondles]

Solid Effort.

[dirtydog]

Another workshy bloody aussie.

[kingwilly]

Another workshy bloody aussie.

[Davis Knowlton]

Another workshy bloody aussie.

That would be AUSTRIAN, DD. From AUSTRIA. It's not the same country as AUSTRALIA. Just saying...different continents and all......

[ltnt]

Yet another uplifting story on the greater advantages of being unemployed. What will he saw off next after he gets his new bionic appendage? Stay tuned...

[kmart]

Heroic effort to remain unemployed, Sir. Well done! *golf clap*

[kingwilly]

Unemployed man cuts off foot to continue claiming jobless benefits – only to discover he is still eligible for work

• The 56-year-old put his hacked off foot in oven so medics could not reattach it

By Tom Gardner
PUBLISHED: 15:15 GMT, 27 March 2012 | UPDATED: 15:40 GMT, 27 March 2012

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A scrounger who almost died after cutting his own foot off so he could stay on jobless benefits has been told he might still qualify for work despite his amputation.
Long term unemployed Hans Url, 56, had just been told his hand-outs would stop if he did not accept work found for him by job centre staff.
And when his claims that he was too sick and did not like the work were challenged with the offer of a medical, he took drastic measures.

Hacked off: Hans Url rigged up his power tool so he could slice off how own foot in order to avoid work

Url, of Mitterlabill, southern Austria, rigged up a mitre saw and sliced off his foot – then put it in the oven for good measure to ensure no surgeon could reattach it.
But job centre staff have delivered a blow to hapless Url's plan by saying his new disability does not rule him out for work.



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Police spokesman Franz Fasching said: ‘The planning was meticulous.
‘He 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.

Desperate: Url then threw his foot into this oven to make sure surgeons could not reattach it

The police added that the man had almost died from loss of blood before the emergency services arrived and that they had recovered the foot from the oven - but that it had been too badly burned to reattach.
He was airlifted to hospital in Graz where his condition was said to be stable after emergency surgery to seal the wound.
A hospital spokesman said: ‘The foot was too badly burned to reattach. All we could do was seal the wound. He had lost a lot of blood - he almost died on the way to hospital. He was put in an artificial coma.’
The police spokesman Fasching added that they were investigating the case as an attempted suicide.
But Feldbach AMS job centre spokesman Hermann Gössinger said: ‘This is a tragic case but it will not help the man.
‘His latest excuse had been a bad back which is why he had been sent for a medical.

'But even now losing a foot does not automatically mean he will not be able to work. He will be assessed once he is out of hospital and we will see what work we can find for him.’

Read more: Man saws off his own foot to avoid work and continue claiming jobless benefits | Mail Online

[alwarner]

ha ha ha - still eligible for work too. Mind you who would want to employ him, he's not exactly stable is he?

"Oh you're that Hans Url..."

[Jesus Jones]

I can see this ending up like a scene out of Monty Python!

[Kwang]

I know someone who got out of work by having a bath in Persil washing powder. It gave him a rash all over, He did that to get out of degreasing cars, said he was allergic to the Wipe Down chemical.

I, erm I mean he, got a nice easy job driving cars off the end of the assembly line after that

Up there for thinking , down there for dancing

[DrAndy]

Heroic effort to remain unemployed, Sir. Well done! *golf clap*

maybe a one handed clap next?

[larvidchr]

I doubt they will force him back to work in the end, a 56 year old nut-job write-off, quite sad story really.

[kingwilly]

Sounds like he needs to be in a mental institution.

[Looper]

A scrounger who almost died after cutting his own foot off so he could stay on jobless benefits has been told he might still qualify for work despite his amputation.

One foot?? that's a flesh wound! He needs to go the full python and do a quadruple limb amputation.



Come on, make me work now you bastards! Come on!

[Mr Lick]

I just wish that i had thought of it 45 years ago.

Up there for thinking , down there for dancing

Too busy dancing i suppose

[kingwilly]

A scrounger who almost died after cutting his own foot off so he could stay on jobless benefits has been told he might still qualify for work despite his amputation.

One foot?? that's a flesh wound! He needs to go the full python and do a quadruple limb amputation.



Come on, make me work now you bastards! Come on!

green owed.