What a great scam! Bill two insurance companies each for a single injury, and pocket the extra money. Even better, don’t wait for a REAL accident, make one! How often do I need my thumb anyway? With my rusty chainsaw, I might even get lucky and pick up a case of lockjaw.
Easy money!
looks at the two bandaids on two separate fingers on two separate hands
Think this might be worth $400?
His thumb? This guy cut off his thumb and first finger in an insurance scam? Wouldn’t you at least cut off the useless ones?
I think some insurance plans pay more for the good fingers.
sounds like the movie ‘four rooms’ to me.
jeez, they couldn’t at least be original with their scam!
He might have had bigger plans. Perhaps, as a landscaper, he thought he could parlay the hand injury into some kind of disability retirement pension.
Then he’d have it made. You only need one hand to slug down the beer at the Rathskellar.
He’s on probation. If he ever cuts off those two fingers again he could go to jail.
Yeah, but he got caught red-handed.
He’s gonna miss the digital gardening revolution.
[OT]Actually, by its own acknowledgment, the segment in Four Rooms wasn’t that original. It was based on a Roald Dahl short story, The Man from the South, that was subsequently dramatized on TV several times (most memorably on an ep of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” with Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre that was also directed by Hitchcock).[OT]
As for the OP, given how most insurance companies are loathe to making huge payments for claims, I would think they would thoroughly investigate the incident before paying out. If there was any hint it was due to chicanery (or stupidity), they would likely reduce the recovery substantially if not outright.
Hah. They were just being more careful than these guys.