Student Convinced Friend To Amputate Both Legs For Money
Hey, Rat Rockers a student in Taiwan who had his legs cut off for high hopes of getting $1.3 million insurance money, has been arrested. This fraud scam is so unbelievable, and why on Earth would you do this? I guess this is the world we live in and will do just about anything to get money. You can get more information on this story by clicking right HERE.
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This 23 year only known as Zhang, put his feet into a bucket of dry ice for more than 10 hours to dry to get them to be frostbitten. After that, he would need to have a double amputation, for the insurance money. This is all reported by the Taiwan Criminal Investigation Bureau. Here is more to the story.
Student Convinced Friend To Do This And How It Came To Action
The Criminal Investigation Bureau did report, Zhang had a friend from high school named Liao talk him into it. This Liao guy also who is 23, tricked Zhang into putting his signature on a legal note saying it would get him $800,000 according to investigators. Liao told the victim that he was being chased by a couple of gangsters. Then back in January of 2023 they decided to ride around the city on a motorbike to try to get and claim frostbite. After this ride, this is when Zhang soaked his feet in dry ice for 10 hours.
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According to the investigation team, Zhang invested in life insurance, travel insurance, and accident insurance policies. When arriving at the hospital medical staff knew something was a little off. They noticed his legs did not have shoe or sock marks. Other red flags were up when nothing naturally had occurred with frostbite injuries. Also, the weather in January does not get that cold and he would even be close to being frostbitten. Zhang did have his legs amputated below the calf but it did not pay out for him.
Police did a whole investigation on this and found the plastic bucket where he soaked his feet. Along with that were insurance papers, the dry ice, and 8 cell phones. Both boys have been arrested and charged with fraud and aiding abetting serious injury, according to police. Zhang did claim $7,200 bucks but that money never ended up in his pocket. Let us know what you think in the comment section.
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