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Did Polish farmer Krzysztof Azninski chop his own head off?


RevokeNice 15 | 1,854
7 Jan 2012 #1
True or False?

I was in the pub for the night and one of the Polish barmaids was chatting away to us. We were waffling onabout stupid shite we did whilst rubber drunk. During our conversation the Pole butted in with this story,

During the 90s a load of Polish lads went on the beve in some chaps house. He had a reputation for being a bit of a nancy boy. The lads got buckled drunk and then decided to play some drinking games. After a while they started lobbing bottles and other household items off each other. To prove who wasthe manliest. This kept escalating and eventually one lad whipped out a chainsaw, where her got it i dunno, and cut off a finger. Then the nancy boy goes watch this, swings the chainswaw at his neck and rips his own head off.

I was told this by a Pole, so dont attack me for bringing it up. She was adamant it was true. I dont believe it meself. I bet her a score that she was lying.

So, whats the story? Is it an urban myth or what?
czar 1 | 143
7 Jan 2012 #2
in before delete
GLUPEK
7 Jan 2012 #3
I remember this happening. It made the front page of the WBJ.
Des Essientes 7 | 1,290
7 Jan 2012 #4
Thomas Mann has a story set in India called The Transposed Heads about two fellows who had each decapitated himself before an idol of Kali and then wife of one, who was the third point in the love triangle that inspired this gruesomeness, put the heads back upon the wrong bodies when the goddess appears and grants them life again. Mann went through alot of verbal antics in order to explain the feasibility of self-decapitation with a sword. A chainsaw seems like it would be alot more capable of taking this terminal act from fiction to fact.
OP RevokeNice 15 | 1,854
7 Jan 2012 #5
I remember this happening. It made the front page of the WBJ.

Link??????
GLUPEK
7 Jan 2012 #6
Thomas Mann

Meister of symbolism, that one - Mixing culture(heads) does not kill but brings new life.
Wroclaw Boy
7 Jan 2012 #7
This kept escalating and eventually one lad whipped out a chainsaw, where her got it i dunno, and cut off a finger.

Chainsaws are very common in Poland, they all have them in the country.

Its BS because how could anyone cut off one finger with a chainsaw? The chain is about 0.7 cm think and has lots of links with small blades which pull towards the saw, it would mash a finger and pull in the others. Also the saw usually weighs around 4-7kg, it would be virtually impossible to cut off one finger even if you had someone else holding the saw with two hands.

You could saw off a hand, leg, head - easy, but not a finger.
milky 13 | 1,657
7 Jan 2012 #8
So the moral of the story is - always carry a chainsaw, just in case you are confronted by annoying Polish Macho men. You won't even have to physically fight them, just give them an arm wrestle and, afterward, casually hand them a chainsaw. Tip to success in Poland.
smurf 39 | 1,971
7 Jan 2012 #9
cool story bro
Richfilth 6 | 415
7 Jan 2012 #10
This is the story of Krzysztof Azninski:

darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1996-07.html
milky 13 | 1,657
7 Jan 2012 #11
What a hero!
beta2
7 Jan 2012 #12
another Polish joke ?
there's no such Polish name as 'Azninski'
teflcat 5 | 1,032
7 Jan 2012 #13
Impossible. It would have chewed up his neck a bit and then stopped. Chainsaws hate cutting anything other than wood. I've got one and I must say it's the best fun a guy can have with his clothes on, but cutting your own head off? Rural myth, albeit a funny one.
Harry
7 Jan 2012 #14
During the 90s a load of Polish lads went on the beve in some chaps house.

Yes, I remember this one. Mid 90s. I believe that the first self-mutilation was somebody nailing his hand to the table, then the bloke with his foot and then the head bloke. Apparently the neighbours got fed up with the drunken singing and called the police, who found the guys singing a song about rolling the head of the giant home.

Found it.

Toughness contests are a traditional part of Polish recreational life," Regional Prosecutor Stefan Wojcelski told a court in Stargard Szczeciski, "and the state has no wish to interfere with a playful tradition. But, while we accept amputation as an inevitable part of this we do not accept murder, and I therefore ask for the heaviest penalites to be broiguth against the three accused.(PAP [Polish News Agency], 25/10/94, printed in Private Eye.)

guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/dec/31/nazdrowiecheers
delphiandomine 88 | 18,163
7 Jan 2012 #15
Toughness contests are a traditional part of Polish recreational life," Regional Prosecutor Stefan Wojcelski told a court in Stargard Szczeciski, "and the state has no wish to interfere with a playful tradition. But, while we accept amputation as an inevitable part of this

It's not just me that died of laughter after reading this, right?
gumishu 13 | 6,133
7 Jan 2012 #16
ranciszek Zyzcoszusko

completely made up
Harry
7 Jan 2012 #17
You mean not everything which is printed in Private Eye is true?!
JonnyM 11 | 2,615
7 Jan 2012 #18
completely made up

The name of the guy might be, however I remember the story was fairly widely reported in the UK at the time. I've heard the story told in Poland too.

It might sound outrageous and hard to believe. But so would a story about Polish ambulance staff murdering hundreds of patients so they can get bribes from funeral homes, wouldn't it........
gumishu 13 | 6,133
7 Jan 2012 #19
the number of versions quoted in this thread shows that is just a story, I can't think of any Polish song that could be rendered as 'Roll the head of the giant', too.

The names are made up and/or misspelled in every instance.
JonnyM 11 | 2,615
7 Jan 2012 #20
that is just a story

A true one. I remember it at the time. It was an axe rather than a chainsaw.
bored
7 Jan 2012 #21
Yet another creepy urban legend as the one about Alice Cooper cutting open his own abdomen, pulling out his intestines and jumping rope with them. LOL
a.k.
7 Jan 2012 #22
I think it's an urban legends but if you need horror stories I can tell you a few which might seem to be urban legends but they are not.
Sidliste_Chodov 1 | 441
7 Jan 2012 #23
I bet they also used the chainsaw to slaughter some swans for dinner :D
Wroclaw 44 | 5,379
7 Jan 2012 #24
Impossible. It would have chewed up his neck a bit and then stopped.

there was a report in the telegraph a few days ago about a uk man doing just that.
JonnyM 11 | 2,615
7 Jan 2012 #25
And somebody sadly commuted suicide not long ago by fixing one to his ceiling. Mind you, to kill someone it just has to sever an artery.
teflcat 5 | 1,032
7 Jan 2012 #26
there was a report in the telegraph a few days ago about a uk man doing just that.

What? Cutting his head off, or damaging an artery in his neck? Not quite the same thing. There's something they call chainsaw kickback. Google it and you'll know what I meant by 'impossible'.
Wroclaw 44 | 5,379
7 Jan 2012 #27
Google it and you'll know what I meant by 'impossible'.

i don't have to google. i have a student who managed to slice into both his leg and arm with a chainsaw.

my above post was just a point of interest in connection with the topic.
delphiandomine 88 | 18,163
7 Jan 2012 #28
What? Cutting his head off, or damaging an artery in his neck? Not quite the same thing. There's something they call chainsaw kickback. Google it and you'll know what I meant by 'impossible'.

This guy managed

A man who was found with his head severed by a chainsaw was fighting to stay in a block of 70 flats in Hampshire cleared for redevelopment.

David Phyall, 50, was the last tenant at the Atlantic Housing Ltd housing association flats in Eastleigh.

His body was found by police on 5 July, who said his death was not suspicious. Post-mortem tests showed he died of a "complete transection of the neck".

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7505443.stm

I wouldn't know about it though, I was explicitly forbidden from ever going near a chainsaw :(
Harry
7 Jan 2012 #29
This guy managed

Lucky you found that link: I was beginning to think that the only way to answer this question was to ask for a volunteer.
Wroclaw 44 | 5,379
7 Jan 2012 #30
I was explicitly forbidden from ever going near a chainsaw

forestry workers in the uk wear kevlar lined overalls. so you do well not to go near a chainsaw.


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