I guess there are times when you can take just so much before you consider doing something off the beaten path to vent your frustration.
Such was the case of one highly stressed-out union official from Serbia. He and fellow workers at a textile factory have been working there for several years. They have not, however, been paid any wages for some time, only being compensated for their labor with free medical care and other benefits. So many workers have been laid off during the past few years that there are only 100 people left to do all the backbreaking tasks. Understandably, these folks want to get paid and to get other perks to help them and their families live decent lives.
In 2008, the upset workers showed their dissatisfaction by going on a hunger strike for 19 days, but this, apparently, did not yield the kind of results they desired.
This year, though, they supposedly intend to express their anger in the most desperate manner possible...by self-mutilation. Until they get their demands met by leaders from their government, they declare that they plan to start cutting things off.
The first person to follow through on this, thus far, has been Zoran Bulatovic, the union leader, who whacked off one of his digits and then ate it.
Hey, I have sympathy for their plight, but you gotta wonder-
If they chop off their fingers, hands, etc., how are they going to be able to do their work, once their demands are met?
Charles Out of Charge 
