Man chops off, eats own finger, in protest

[CougarKing]

:-X

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090427/odds/odd_us_finger

 
BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said Monday he did it to show how desperate he and other workers were.

"We, the workers have nothing to eat, we had to seek some sort of alternative food and I gave them an example," Zoran Bulatovic told Reuters. "It hurt like hell."


Bulatovic, a union leader at the Raska Holding textile factory in Novi Pazar in southwest Serbia, used a hacksaw to cut off most of his left-hand little finger Friday.


Bulatovic said he decided to act after his deputy, "a single mother of three, was the first to say she would cut off her finger. I could not allow her to do that," he said.


State-owned Raska Holding was a major textile producer in the late 1980s with a workforce of 4,000. It suffered during the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and a loss of markets and mismanagement during a decade of wars and sanctions led to massive job cuts, leaving the company with just 100 workers.


Some employees have not been paid for years, only collecting social benefits, like free medical care.


About two dozen workers went on a 19-day hunger strike last year. They want the company's debt to be swapped for state-held equity and a welfare program for those nearing retirement.


Bulatovic said his comrades will not back down from their demands, but they will postpone planned self-mutilations at least until talks with government officials in Belgrade expected Tuesday.


(Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic; Editing by Gordana Filipovic and Matthew Jones)

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Lets hope they aren't addicting.....

 

[Bando Commando]

Ummm...

....yummy? lol

Thats pretty extreme...and may possibly not even get the point across.

 

[Sub_Guy]

Some folks will do anything to avoid a posting to Greenwood.

 

[Eye In The Sky]

Some folks will do anything to avoid a posting to Greenwood.

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!  Ok that made my day!

On another note, maybe someone could introduce Mr SnackyHand to the concept of 'writing a memo'

 

[ExSarge]

Jeez, hope it wasn’t his bogger digger digit!

 

[the_girlfirend]

Sick! Sick Sick! Sick!  :-X

 

[2 Cdo]

Personally I have never found myself that hungry or mad at something that self-cannibilization was the only answer!

 

[Mighty W]

I wonder if Kentucky Fried Chicken will hire him as a spokes person.... Finger Lickin' Good

 

[HollywoodHitman]

"Fingers, the other white meat".......

 

[Old Sweat]

Taking nail biting to a whole new level . . .

 

[X-mo-1979]

"About two dozen workers went on a 19-day hunger strike last year "

Ok.I'm sorry but am I the only guy who see's humor in that?

 

[BlueJingo]

Which finger?!?!?!!? some of them are important you know!

 

[ajp]

With reference to the booger digger unit...Did he go there for an appetizer?  (Sorry!  But I am not the only one to think it)

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Good thing it wasn't his nose to spite his face.

 

[Good2Golf]

"About two dozen workers went on a 19-day hunger strike last year "

Ok.I'm sorry but am I the only guy who see's humor in that?

Nope.  Although it would have been better if they noted that they are all on a 20 day strike except for this guy.....  ;D

 

[X-mo-1979]

Nope.  Although it would have been better if they noted that they are all on a 20 day strike except for this guy.....  ;D

haha
Thank god, I thought I was the only one whom seen humour in that.

 

[PMedMoe]

I'll see your finger and raise you a penis.  :-X

Man mutilates self in protest
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CAIRO - A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday.

After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his reproductive organ, said a police official.

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Guess he won't have to worry about marriage any more.......

 

[BlueJingo]

Yikes! Now that is true love don't ya think? If I can't marry you then I won't marry anybody...Take that Penis!  ;D

 

[X-mo-1979]

See his dad was right.He was crazy.