Man stabs himself to get out of working the night shift
Filed under: Career
What do you make of a guy who doesn't want to go to work so badly that he stabs himself in the leg? And then calls the police to report that he's been knifed? All so he can avoid working his shift at Blockbuster Video.The Denver Post reported earlier this week that when 29-year-old Aaron Siebers walked into Blockbuster at the start of his evening shift, he claimed he had been attacked by three people -- skinheads, he said at first. Indeed, he had a deep wound in his leg and several lesser cuts.
A manhunt soon ensued, complete with police dogs. Then the police started finding holes not just in his leg, but his story, For starters, he claimed to have been attacked near a Target, but the cameras didn't pick up the incident or show any suspicious activity.
Siebers eventually recanted and admitted that he had abducted himself at knife point.
As a police spokesman told The Denver Post, "If you are going to concoct a story about being stabbed, don't do it near a Target Store."
Siebers was arrested, of course, and hopefully, along with a good lawyer, he has retained a good psychiatrist. I certainly know I'm wondering if he is crazy, as in mentally ill. Why else would you stab yourself in the leg and put your life at risk -- or at least put yourself into such pain -- to avoid working?
On the other hand, maybe he's just lazy. But not so lazy, since his excuse took some effort on his part... I mean, most of us would have just called on a cell phone and said we had the swine flu, hung up and called it a day, but maybe he had used that excuse already.
I almost feel for the guy. While a video store may have looked like a fun place to work--after all, who wouldn't want to work in a business where you're constantly talking about movies--the reality is probably quite different. I'll never forget working at a bookstore a few months out of college. I thought it would be the next best thing to writing books -- until I had to lug piles of book to shelves, stock the shelves, sweep out the back alley and work the cash register. Suddenly, this fun job was just a job. And the pay was dismal.
Maybe that's what happened to Siebers. Maybe he found himself feeling stuck, stuck in a job, stuck in life, and... and yet, even as I try to understand why he did it, I still can't picture myself or any mentally healthy person taking a knife to their leg as a way to get out of work. I feel sorry for people who are desperate for a job, any job, and are reading this right now. There's a lot of unemployment, after all, and even if Blockbuster was the worst place in the world to work, I'm sure a lot of people would have happily taken Sieber's place.
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11-05-2009 @ 4:49PM
wow! said...
And people in the US are still pissed that illegal immigrants take their jobs??? Seriously?? Working at Blockbuster compared to House cleaning? Babysitting? Restaurant bussers?? Construction??? I know it's not all Americans who think this...but for the minority who do....try working two full time jobs 6 days a week....and then it'll be understandable that you do wanna stab yourself with a knife....stupid asses...there ARE jobs you know...you just have to LOOK for them and LOWER your expectations...do some house cleaning, some landscaping, some construction, get used to being paid the minimum and spend your vacation at HOME, with your FAMILY....people are so damn lazy that they'll just use the excuse of the recession to not work...like this idiot did, that's exactly what some americans are doing....
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11-05-2009 @ 5:15PM
DENIS I. said...
WTF? He's got a job, but does not want to work night? There are plenty of us out here who would love such a posh job, indoors, with a real paycheck,[not the promise of one.].
I assume the place is heated, dry & clean. No roaches, or rats.
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What was so bad that he had to stab himself & make up the story? Why did he blame "skinheads"? Are they a big problem in Denver? I know that guys were shooting themselves in the foot to get out of combat in Vietnam, but to get out of work?
WTF?
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11-08-2009 @ 6:24PM
bob said...
50/50 bb and real paychecks are iffy ...they're working people a lot more like gamestop type job .. 15hrs ish for the most part .. depending on how good you are.
11-06-2009 @ 7:17AM
Anna L. Richard said...
I'll bet the guy is between 18 and 40 in age...they're the laziest most good, for nothing but become a criminal! Why should they work Mom hands them the money when they ask? It's a crime to them to have to work for it. They'll stab themselves. I'm a grandmother of 8 and believe me, most of the five grandsons don't want to work, either. America has the laziest men and boys on the planet. You can't hire a young man to do anything. Why? he gets money from parents without it. I am so ashamed of some most young Americans these days. America is not the Americ a I grew up in..we all had chores and fun followed getting the chores done! I hate to think our country will be run by one pof these lazy, uneducated buffoons one day...
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11-05-2009 @ 8:06PM
DENNIS I. said...
Why do these nut jobs have to blame someone for something THEY did to themselves?
That guy in Boston who killed his wife & shot himself, he blamed a large black man.
That broad out in AZ. who worked for the McCain camp, she claimed a large black man carved a B in her face over the bumper sticker on her car.
That broad from Alabama who blamed the Dutch kid over her drunken slut daughter. Claiming he & two other guys killed Natalee Holloway, when all the while the girl is in Venezuela.
And that woman who skipped with her kid to Florida but said they had been kidnapped by two large black men.
Now this lazy slob tries to pin it on "skinheads"?
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11-05-2009 @ 6:12PM
mike said...
you mean theres still a blockbuster in buisness? why?
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11-06-2009 @ 12:48AM
wEIRDO said...
Is that reallly the knife he used maybe he was spending too much time playing Wow
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11-06-2009 @ 12:50AM
wEIRDO said...
Is that really the knife he used. If it is looks like he was playing too much time playing wow. Seriously where did he get a knife like that at work does he drive around with something like that
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