백만불짜리 손가락

정말 아주 희한한 세상이다. 손톱 디자이너가 기차 바퀴에 손가락이 잘려 나갔다고

보험회사가 백만유로를 지불할 사건이 생겼다. 주소속 변호산 검사가 피고인의 말을

들어준 것이고 보험회사는 기차 밑에라면 사람이 죽지 어떻게 손가락만 잘리는냐는

것이고 피고는 자전거를 타고 가다 강뚝에 넘어져 손가락이 레일에 걸렸다고 주장하며

피고는 사고2개월전에 보험에 가입했고 그 당시 부채가 한 200,000유로있었다고. 만약

이게 의도된 사기라면 10년 징역이라네요. 어쨌던 빚은 해결됐군. 잘못되면 10년 감옥

잘되면 백만 유론 데. 정말 대단한 재주와 아이디어

Man accused of deliberate finger severing

Associated Press

SALZBURG, Austria - Prosecutors on Tuesday accused a former fingernail designer of deliberately

putting his hands beneath a passing train so his fingers would be severed and he could collect on

a euro1 million ($1.17 million) insurance policy.

The 35-year-old defendant from the town of St. Johann, whose name was not released in line with Austrian

privacy laws, is being tried on federal charges of insurance fraud stemming from claims filed in November 2003,

when the incident occurred. The suspect told police he was riding his bicycle when he lost control and

rolled down an embankment and onto railroad tracks just as a train was passing by, losing a thumb on one hand

and an index finger and a pinky on the other.

Insurance company investigators became suspicious after they found that the man had taken out the policy

a few months before the alleged accident. State's attorney Elvira Gonschorowski-Zehentner said Tuesday that

prosecutors had reason to believe the man cut off his own fingers in an attempt to cash in on his insurance.

But the defendant's lawyer, Karl Wampl, dismissed as outlandish the notion that the man would intentionally have

mutilated himself in such a fashion, contending he could have used a power saw to cut off his fingers rather than

risk death faking an accident with a train.The suspect has admitted that he had accumulated about euro150,000

($175,000) in debts at the time he lost the fingers, prosecutors said. If convicted, the man faces up to 10 years

in prison, authorities said