A man today admitted beating himself up with a boulder to get the day off work. Steven Reid, 23, from Aberdeen, claimed he was assaulted on his way to his job on March 22. But it later emerged he told his friend he faked the attack because he couldn’t be bothered going and fancied a day off.
After previously admitting wasting police time, Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard who Reid injured himself by repeatedly dragging a razor down his face and beating himself on the head and body with a boulder. Sheriff Graeme Buchanan described it as a “bizarre” case.
Following the incident Reid went to the police station and said he had been assaulted by two male persons who repeatedly punched and kicked him. During follow up questions Reid admitted faking the assault but claimed he did not think police would bother investigating it.
STV (Thanks KirstyJ)
So this is a real life Beavis, where’s Butthead?
Is it me, or is that a really silly thing to do?
Now there’s a happy fella.
By how much would you have to hate your job to do this? Couldn’t he just claim to have man-flu?
Don’t blame him, March 22nd was a Sunday…
I will leave it for someone else to put what we’re all thinking…
Woah :-O
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Wow that man has a lot of forehead!
He looks like a real life caricature – I wanna draw him!
Can’t decide if the use of that particular photo is a joke or not, ’cause its not of Steven Reid.
It’s a mugshot of Chris Kemp, arrested in Oregon (USA) on Boxing Day of 2003 after being caught in the act of burglary, still wearing the clothes of the homeowner’s mother – http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/chriskemp1.html
that picture is notorious on the net….is this story as fake as the picture perhaps???
What a great example of an Aberdonian. Makes me proud……
*Sigh*
maybe he was just really stoned!?
im pretty sure you dont get arrested for beating yourself up, or for skipping work, so why is there a mug shot?
I’m sure that piccy is on this blog somewhere else if memory serves?
Blimey, couldn’t he have said he had a hangover or something?! A whole lot easier! Not that I would know or anything…… ;o)
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This is the real Steven Reid: http://tinyurl.com/n2ggao
He looks quite normal, unlike the Dan Clowes caricature that you have pictured.
what a nerd.
Yup Faye that was it
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I work in payroll as my “proper” job, and up until now the best reasons on sick notes that I had heard were “Stump Pain”, “Malaise” and what in doctors writing looked like “Uncertainty”
Wow, most people just fake ill.
On another note, you’ve used this photo too much. 3 times is enough already!
What a muppet. Surely everyone knows about phoning work while lying on your back with your head hanging off the edge of the bed to make yourself sound bunged up and out of breath.
If he’d pretended he had gastric flu and started describing the symptoms in graphic detail, there wouldn’t have been any further questions!
@Mary lol!!
That’s a bit dramatic….would you not just say you’ve got a migrane or something?
Craig, I do a similar job to you, I’ve had a doctors note with “lethargy” given as the reason for a week off work.
That man in the picture scares me. A lot.
he looks like a real, live caricature
Ahhh,
Travel Lodge… that explains a lot, haha.
Shouldn’t disrespect his job really… it’s a job.
Even though he did feel the need to vigorously beat himself about the head with a rock to escape it.
Saying that, it mainly looks like the guy in the picture was just exfoliating with a Brillo pad.
(Note: Other brands of scouring pad are available).
Peace people
Can this possibly be his actual head??
i think i’d whack myself with a rock aswell if i looked like that.
This pic must have been someone\’s favorite pick … it made it twice to the blog .. A secret crush ..
Or is it a sign … a new hidden competition?
This man did not realize yet that he could have called in telling that he came up with that pig thing .. It\’s very hip and trendy, or about to become that …
Does he work for Tefal?
We are so judgemental, non? But even if we didn’t say it, I bet we all thought it! If it’s been on the site before, there’s gotta be a reason for it. Unless it’s simply that it gets such a reaction each time!
That is sooo mean, he is a very attractive large foreheaded man,,, (ok, I have probably drank enough wine for tonight…)
That dude in the picture needs tipee for his bunghole
Siobhan- Put the wine bottle down and back away.
( I think Phillis has a secret crush on him :-p )
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@AbstractbyMark ROFL!!!! he really is a real live Beavis!
i did think he was an odd lookin scot lol
my guessing is we were meant to find out who this person is seeing as its not the actual Reid bloke….and because in text it says \”Sheriff Court heard who Reid injured himself \”….who…not how.
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Caronline: Lethargy is a medical condition.