Easy money... NOT

[Kevin]

Two Stage Chainsaw Accident in Insurance Scam
Mon Sep 15,10:44 AM ET

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.

[MARIAN]

I had a friend who cut off part of her hand while cutting some scroll work for her front porch.  I remember how much pain she was in and these guys did this on purpose?!

What were they on when they thought that up?!

[Kevin]

The scary part is people like this can have children and vote.

[rebocardo]

They recently convicted two men in the U.S.A. for medical insurance fraud. The fraud involved breaking the legs of homeless men and then giving them $1000 and keeping the rest of the insurance money for themselves.