From the “holy crap you’ve made your point” file, a 50 year-old British man protesting his eviction decided to kill himself in spectacular fashion by cutting off his own head with an electric chainsaw. A snippet of the gory details from the article published in the U.K.’s Daily Mail:

“Desperate David Phyall, 50, plugged the electric chainsaw into the mains and attached a timer to the socket. He then wrapped sellotape around the machine’s trigger to secure it in the ‘on’ position and tied the handle of the saw to a table leg to hold it steady. Mr Phyall rested the saw on his neck and waited for the timer to go off. The Black and Decker chainsaw sliced through his neck in an instant but kept going for a further 15 minutes.”

Blecch!