Gardener tries to kill moles with mower, loses fingers

An Upper Austrian gardener lost two fingers after he tried to kill moles in his garden with a lawnmower.

The 34-year-old man was so angry with the moles digging up his garden that he taped a pipe to the exhaust of his lawnmower and and shoved the other end into a molehill to gas the animals, the Austrian Times reports.

When the Aspach resident saw a mole escaping through a gap between the ground and the mower, he tried to grab the animal. In the attempt, two of his fingers were chopped off by the mower’s rotating blades.

The man was taken to the hospital for his injuries, but it was not clear if surgeons were able to reattach the fingers.

Molehill is now a mountain.

“Mole killer” photo by by Chris Harley

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