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Two Stage Chainsaw Accident in Insurance Scam
Mon Sep 15,10:44 AM ET
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court convicted two men of staging a
chainsaw accident in which one of them cut off the other's thumb and
forefinger to claim 40,000 euros ($44,780) in insurance money, authorities
said on Friday.
"One man held onto a cutting board and the other sawed his fingers off,"
presiding judge Juergen Treu said at the court in the southern town of
Wuerzburg.
The 58-year-old landscape gardener then threw away the fingers and
claimed money from two different insurers.
Police later uncovered the ruse after receiving an anonymous tip-off. "One of
the men had been blabbing about it," Treu said.
The court gave the eight-fingered gardener a probationary sentence of
one-and-a-half-years, while his chainsaw-wielding accomplice, a 28-year-old
trucker, received a jail sentence of the same length because of a previous
criminal record.
Mon Sep 15,10:44 AM ET
Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court convicted two men of staging a
chainsaw accident in which one of them cut off the other's thumb and
forefinger to claim 40,000 euros ($44,780) in insurance money, authorities
said on Friday.
"One man held onto a cutting board and the other sawed his fingers off,"
presiding judge Juergen Treu said at the court in the southern town of
Wuerzburg.
The 58-year-old landscape gardener then threw away the fingers and
claimed money from two different insurers.
Police later uncovered the ruse after receiving an anonymous tip-off. "One of
the men had been blabbing about it," Treu said.
The court gave the eight-fingered gardener a probationary sentence of
one-and-a-half-years, while his chainsaw-wielding accomplice, a 28-year-old
trucker, received a jail sentence of the same length because of a previous
criminal record.
