Sounds like Monty Python's Tiger in Africa skit (paraphrased) "I woke up this morning with one sock too many"

It's on Yahoo, too (link from snopes), attributed to 'Press Association'. Anyone know who or what this organization is? I almost gave it default credence due to the (what, accidental?) similarity of name to 'Associated Press'...

For what it's worth I saw this gentleman on tv
here. Yes, he has a leg stump and looks like a prof.
It could easily be established he is a real person as he is a mathematics professor in Leipzig.
I see no reason why his story shouldn't be true.
See http://www.mdr.de/brisant/1773080.html

"I see no reason why his story shouldn't be true."
-Because it's really WEIRD. Maybe I'm thinking too American, but I can't see someone taking $200 (pounds, whatever) out of someone's wallet & sticking a receipt in its place.

He looks like a prof?? I can stick put scrubs on & sit in a hospital, but it wouldn't make me a doctor.

...minus the stick?

It's not in the same league, but a friend of mine (not a friend of a friend-- I really know this person and talked to her the same day it happened) almost lost several teeth the same way. Her insurance dropped the dentist she had been using, so she went to a new one. She mentioned that a filling in one of her molars had been bothering her. The next thing she knew, the dentist's assistant was in the room demanding that she pay in advance to have that tooth and the one next to it pulled! No niceties like discussing it with her or getting permission first. If the dentist hadn't been so greedy (wanting his whole fee up front), he might have yanked the first tooth before she could run away.
She got out of there as fast as she could, then went to a competent dentist who put a new filling in the molar and it was as good as new.

In Costa Rica a local newspaper ran the story citing Ananova and Bild.de as primary sources (Al D

Where are you sticking those scrubs Maegan?
I just couldn't resist.

Just a few years ago a hspital here in the USA amputated the wrong leg of a patient and then had to go back and amputate the correct one, they charged for both. Patient won the lawsuit. Other similar incidents involved people needing surgery and losing a leg or arm due to a mix-up in the instructions to the doctor or whatever they are called. Doctor acted on the information given by the hospital and acted properly on that information. Again, patients won the lawsuits. Other than the unusual collection methods, this sort of thing could happen just about anywhere. However, I do have one question about one aspect that no one else seems to have caught. The hospital rushed the guy out real quick, didn't try to milk him for bed charges, extra medicine, nurse care, etc. Instead of two hundred pounds, they could have billed him for several thousand. Seems a false note in the story.

The same thing happened to me. They took BOTH of them. I tried to sue, but my lawyer said "I didn't have a leg to stand on". Ba dum Bum

Paul in Prague asked about Press Association. It's the British domestic wire agency, owned by the major newspapers.

...Sometimes when a foot is dmgd badly, you may have to amputate up higher than you think...But again, I think this is fake.

And I TRIED to correct my grammer mistake!!
=op

*singing* I have no leg! *ching ching*

Hey, nobody else said it....

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