Chainsaw Insurance
Confirmed Darwin Award
A violent attack on an innocent man?
January 2002, Italy
| Andreas, 23-year-old ex-bouncer from Italy,
was found lying in a pool of blood. Police initially thought
him the victim of sadism, his left leg almost severed by a
chainsaw, his body drained of blood by copious bleeding.
Emergency call operators heard only a "death rattle".
He bled to death on the phone, victim of his own devices.
The incredible truth was that Andreas had asked his cousin
for "help" with an insurance scam. The 29-year-old
cousin confessed to attacking--and inadvetently killing--the
younger man in a planned and "mutually satisfactory" insurance
fraud that went badly awry.
Andreas asked his cousin to cut his left leg off with a
chainsaw, in order to glean a million dollars from numerous
insurance policies. Permanent disability was all that was
required. That and Andreas' knowledge of first aid.
The attack took place near a country lay-by. Cousin sawed
at cousin, below the knee, and a major was artery severed in a
gambit timed too close for survival. Emergency crews arrived to
find Andreas dead and his cousin fled, tossing the chainsaw in
a river on his way to the pub.
A classic case of justice
reaching those who buy chainsaws.
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