Yes, it is annoying when workmen cut off your water or electricity for maintenance or repair work without letting you know before hand: if they know in advance, why not let you in on it so that you can fill up the bath, for example? However, no matter how annoying it might be, stabbing one of the workers is no quite cricket, is it? Read on…

The incident took place in Cenes de la Vega one afternoon. A team of electricians was working on a high-tension line on the Calle Real. One of them was up a ladder near the alleged aggressors house when the said individual came out and started berating him, complaining that whatever the electrician was up to had caused him to lose his electricity supply.

Now, according to the worker, after a short exchange, the man went back into his house, came back out armed with an impressive, ham-carving knife – with no leg of ham in sight – and stuck the bloody thing in his neck.

Well, before you can say, “could have sworn that that wasn’t there this morning,” he was lying on the ground, losing quite a lot of blood, so he was whisked off to the hospital where they managed to ‘plug the hole’ and top him back up again. However, he spent the night in the ICU on the brink of death.

Strange as it might seem, the family of the aggressor gave a different version of what had happened: the man on the ladder had threatened him, so the 48-year-old Samurai had no other option other than to stomp into the house, grab a knife, and puncture the blighter… in reluctant self defence.

Right! So the judge thought it over for about 0.3 seconds and opted for the stabbed worker’s version of the incident, ordering the hairspring, ham-knife individual to be remanded in custody, pending trial… bless him.

(News: Cenes de la Vega, Granada, Andalucia)