TV quiz show cheat and ex-Army major loses toes in mower - Polidicks

[url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100916/tuk-tv-quiz-cheat-loses-toes-in-mower-6323e80.html]Source[/url] [quote]An ex-Army major caught cheating his way to £1 million on a TV game show has sliced off three toes in a freak gardening accident. Charles Ingram, 47, who won the top prize on ITV1's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? with help from an accomplice, slipped on a rotten apple as he was mowing his one-acre garden. The three biggest toes on his left foot were ripped off through his Wellington boots by the steel blades of the petrol-powered mower. The father-of-three stumbled back to his three-bedroom detached home in Easterton, near Devizes, Wiltshire, where a friend called the emergency services. Mr Ingram told the North Wiltshire and Kennet Gazette & Herald: "I was only wearing Wellingtons and it sliced right through the rubber. I remember seeing my big toe lying on the grass and thinking, 'oh dear'. I got up and managed to shuffle down to the front of the garden." Mr Ingram, who now runs a computer business, said he was fortunate a customer had just come to his house to collect a laptop he had repaired and she rang for an ambulance. He was taken to Salisbury District Hospital where he underwent surgery. "I had a second operation last Friday. Fortunately, the cut was very clean," he said. "I won't need the blade sharpening for some time. So they stitched me up and sent me home on Saturday morning. "It could have been a lot worse. I am still in pain and I am only just able to apply pressure to the ball of my foot, but I have not lost my balance." In 2003 Ingram, his wife Diana and university lecturer Tecwen Whittock were convicted of deception for attempting to cheat on the quiz show after Ingram used coughs from Whittock, who sat among the other contestants, to guide himself to the correct answers. The trio were each fined £15,000, ordered to pay £10,000 costs and handed 18-month suspended jail sentences.[/quote] [img]http://d.yimg.com/i/ng/ne/pressass/20100916/16/298753258-tv-quiz-cheat-loses-toes-mower.jpg[/img]

This is the most random karma I have ever seen.

:whoptc:

I wonder how they caught onto the coughing thing.

FYI: ITV aired a documentary entitled "Who wants to be a Millionaire - Major Fraud" detailing how they did it, and how they got caught. It's split into several parts on YT, the first part is below: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQoNWw0G2AY[/media]

Because obviously everyone who has an accident is a bad person who cheated.

That is the most confusing title of a news thread I have ever seen.

karma mother fucker!

Did the NHS cough up for his treatment?

[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;24867999]Did the NHS cough up for his treatment?[/QUOTE] I wonder if he had to foot the bill

[QUOTE=leach139;24879882]I wonder if he had to foot the bill[/QUOTE] not on your big toe he didn't ! wait wait that doesn't work

[quote]I remember seeing my big toe lying on the grass and thinking, 'oh dear'.[/quote] How fancy. "Oh dear, I appear to have severed my toe."

whoa its like one news after another trippy

i know this guy. hah.

OLOLOOL KARMA IS REEL U GUIZE!!! /caps Get over it, it is as stupid as religion.

from the title I thought it was some kind of weird gameshow involving lawnmowers that had cheated to stop the army guy claiming the prize and in the process severed his toes :psyduck: [editline]05:57PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;24880604]Get over it, it is as stupid as religion.[/QUOTE] maximum flamebait

Hmm, sorry if the title confused any of you. But hopefully reading the article will have cleared up any confusion.

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;24880604]OLOLOOL KARMA IS REEL U GUIZE!!! /caps Get over it, it is as stupid as religion.[/QUOTE] Actually it is part of a religion.

Well it's a good thing he didn't claim he slipped on a banana peel cause then people wouldn't think he was being honest about the accident.

Must be pretty shitty to see a lawnmower cough three of your toes out.

I remember this guy pretty badass. [QUOTE=Bengley;24881847]Must be pretty shitty to see a lawnmower [B]cough[/B] three of your toes out.[/QUOTE] I loled.

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;24880604]OLOLOOL KARMA IS REEL U GUIZE!!! /caps Get over it, it is as stupid as religion.[/QUOTE] :downs:

You are not allowed to cheat in WWBAMillionaire? and get jail sentence?

I guess Karma's a bitch [editline]07:41PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;24880604]OLOLOOL KARMA IS REEL U GUIZE!!! /caps Get over it, it is as stupid as religion.[/QUOTE] why you mad though

'Oh dear.'

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;24880173]How fancy. "Oh dear, I appear to have severed my toe."[/QUOTE] To be fair, they wouldn't have printed it had he said he had thought "OH FUCK MY FUCKING TOE'S GONE FUCK ME". The reporter might've censored it.

Karma is a bitch