To avoid a return to work, an unemployed Austrian man apparently sawed his own foot off. [Reuters]

  • http://twitter.com/kpkpkp Kevin Pierce

    Tobe Hooper Presents: Austria Chainsaw Pedicure  Coming soon!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KLDXI7FI3NUHYC23SUHMGLNBCQ Tom

    Honestly, I’m glad people like this aren’t in the workforce. I can’t even come up with any hyperbole to illustrate the point. Imagine working in the cubicle next to him when he finds out there’s a new TPS coversheet?

  • http://boingboing.net/ The Life Of Bryan

    What kind of lazy bastard can’t be bothered to use a proper hand saw to cut— oh.

  • http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty
  • http://twitter.com/Cluisanna Cluisanna

    I am at the moment suffering from a major depression, and I can absolutely understand this. I don’t know if mental illness was behind this action, but if I had to work at the moment I’d probably rather harm myself.

  • Lobster

     The guy couldn’t find a better way to do this?  Literally EVERYTHING in Australia is poisonous.

    • dave

      Ain’t no Wiener Schnitzel in Australia!

    • ffabian

      Typical USian? Austria =/= Australia

      • Lobster

         The fact that I don’t read things closely has nothing to do with my nationality.  I’ll have you know I’d be an idiot even in Europe!

  • Nathan Bibb

    I am sure there is a mental issue that I should be sensitive to here, but all I can hear in my head is this Kids in the Hall skit about “Mama Compensation”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkwL8QOYWbk
    “Gimme your hand! [Ka-CHUNK Ka-CHUNK!]“

  • elix

    This is reminiscient of the rash of suspicious limb amputations in the 1960s in a small town in Florida, with >50 incidents in a town of 500. They always seemed to lose the limb they least needed.

  • CognitiveDissident

     Look, it wasn’t his fault, he was staying in an evil old shack in the woods that made him do it!

    He kept kicking himself in the head, so Ash J. Wilhems got even, and cut off the wrong, I mean right foot.

  • biggga

    definitely better than having to deal with those boobs at the labor office – i somehow understand ^^

  • TheMudshark

    According to local newspapers he actually did it with a self-made sawing device – he´s a maker!!!

    Furthermore, this is going to do nothing to change his situation, as disability benefits are expressly not to be granted in case of self-mutilation.