Gardener loses fingers trying to kill moles

Austria - An Upper Austrian angered by moles digging up his garden has lost two fingers when a bizarre stunt to kill them went disastrously wrong. The 34-year-old Aspach resident taped a pipe to the exhaust of his lawnmower and rammed the other end into the alley under a molehill to gas the animals. When he noticed that one of the moles tried to escape through the gap between the ground and the mower, he tried to grab it - and had two fingers chopped off his right hand by the rotating blades.More