# "Nub City" Florida... Anyone have any additional information? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nub-city-florida-anyone-have-any-additional-information/815065 "2018-05-29T16:06:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nub-city-florida-anyone-have-any-additional-information/815065/1 "2018-05-29T16:06:45Z")
I’m sorry but I can’t put this bizarre story (re: folks lopping off limbs for insurance money) into my own words. This article is brief: > **[The Story Of "Nub City," Where People Cut Off Their Appendages For Insurance...](https://allthatsinteresting.com/nub-city-vernon-florida)** > > It was near impossible to convict scammers of fraud because jurors had a hard time believing that people would willingly engage in self-mutilation. And there are others that mostly repeat the same information with little expansion. What is/ was wrong with these/ those people?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nub-city-florida-anyone-have-any-additional-information/815065/2 "2018-05-29T16:09:15Z")
I don’t even need to click your link to know where and what: [Vernon, Florida](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083281/). Errol Morris told the world way back in 1981. ---
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nub-city-florida-anyone-have-any-additional-information/815065/3 "2018-05-29T17:48:19Z")
Anybody on the message board live the vicinity? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nub-city-florida-anyone-have-any-additional-information/815065/4 "2018-05-29T18:13:21Z")
I live in Orlando, try to stay away from the panhandle. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nub-city-florida-anyone-have-any-additional-information/815065/5 "2018-05-29T19:32:31Z")
A friend’s husband lost the last joint of a pinkie finger years ago. He recieved $5,000 for this injury. His wife (my friend) brings this up when she is drunk, calling him a sissy/coward/baby for refusing to go back to the trough one more time. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nub-city-florida-anyone-have-any-additional-information/815065/6 "2018-05-29T20:43:21Z")
Here’s something that happened back when I was a shop steward in a machine shop in New York State. It was before OSHA regulations, and risks were a little higher than now. One of the employees lost a finger in a cutting machine. In New York State the workers’ compensation is based on a schedule of loss of use, and the maximum award for the loss of a finger was 2/3 of your weekly pay for a certain number of weeks. It’s currently 46 weeks pay for an index finger. Subsequently in an unrelated accident the employee lost his hand. I did say it was prior to OSHA, right? The schedule for this injury would have been 2/3 of his weekly pay for 244 weeks, but the company deducted 46 weeks, because as they said; “We already paid for that finger once”.