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Darwin Award Candidate: Man off's self with Chainsaw
2007-05-09
A man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after stabbing his 70-year-old father to death in their apartment in the German city of Cologne, police said.

The body of the offender, 24, was found headless when police raced to the apartment after an emergency call, apparently from the dying father, had been broken off in mid-sentence.

Alf Willwacher, a senior prosecutor, said an electric chainsaw was next to the son's body.

"We do not believe any third party was involved,'' he said.

Neighbours said the father and son had been reclusive since the death of the mother, allegedly by suicide, several years ago.
Posted by:Delphi2005

#6  The fool should have had more consideration for the folks that have to clean up this mess.

A prosecutor named Willywacker?

Posted by: GK   2007-05-09 19:37  

#5  That guy was lucky he didn't electrocute himself.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-05-09 17:57  

#4  "How do you spell Determination?"
Posted by: mojo   2007-05-09 17:49  

#3  Reminds me of the song "ProzaKc Blues"

Well I woke up this morning
and shaved off my head.
When I realized what I had done,
I was already dead.
Posted by: xbalanke   2007-05-09 17:44  

#2  How do you hold the chainsaw all the way through you're neck? Did his body just keep moving it through after his brain stopped working?
Posted by: Charles   2007-05-09 17:13  

#1  His last words reportedly: " Oh be Stihl, my beating hea..."
/rimshot
Posted by: USN. Ret.   2007-05-09 14:46  

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