Reuters: Oddly Enough: Austrian saws off own foot to avoid work - report

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Austrian saws off own foot to avoid work - report Mar 26th 2012, 13:53 VIENNA | Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:53am EDT VIENNA (Reuters) - An unemployed Austrian man sawed his foot off, apparently to avoid being found fit to go back to work. Hours before an appointment on Monday for the labor office to check on his health, the 56-year-old man held his left leg against an electric saw in his home workshop and severed his foot just above the ankle, Austrian broadcaster ORF reported. Bleeding profusely, the man from the province of Styria then threw the foot into an oven, hobbled to his garage and called an ambulance. An emergency operation was unable to reattach the foot, ORF said. (Reporting by Angelika Gruber; Writing by Michael Shields, editing by Paul Casciato)

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