Italian Man Gets Busted Using Fake Arm to Try and Circumvent COVID Vaccine
An Italian man went to great lengths to get his COVID certificate without actually getting the shot on Thursday.
The unnamed 50-year-old man is now facing charges of fraud after rolling up his sleeve to get the shot into a prosthetic silicon arm.
The fake arm scandal took place in Biella, a town close to Turin in the northern Piedmont region of Italy, after the nation announced massive restrictions on those who refuse the vaccine.
“After completing the bureaucratic formalities, including signing a consent form in front of a doctor, the man, aged 50, sat down and lifted up the sleeve of his shirt as he prepared for a health worker to administer the jab,” the Guardian reports. “Initially, the health worker did not notice anything odd,