Posted on 01/11/2007 11:52:39 AM PST by martin_fierro
Man electrocuted by do-it-yourself mole-killer
2 hours, 17 minutes ago
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German retiree who wired up a high-voltage cable to try to wipe out the moles digging up his garden killed himself instead, police said Thursday.
Uwe Werner, police spokesman in Stralsund north of Berlin, said the 63-year-old retired construction foreman was found dead in the garden of his weekend house in Zingst next to a 380-volt cable and metal spikes rammed into the ground.
"The moles survived," Werner said, noting the voltage was enough to run a cement mixer or heavy-duty power saw. "It was in any event an unorthodox method to try to get rid of moles."
Ich bin ein Molemörder.
I think that translates into English as Danny Noonan.
There. Fixed.
Ich bin ein Burrow-liner.
Removed himself from the gene pool ...
Uwe was not the zappee, he was the police spokesman telling about the zappee.
Should have stuned them with his BEEMER.
Ich bin ein badreader.
Our first 2007 Darwin award candidate.
Hey, the moles aren't bothering HIM anymore, anyway.
I always wondered whatever happened to ole Carl.
A mama mole, a papa mole, and a baby mole all live in a little mole hole.
One day the papa mole sticks his head out of the hole, sniffs the air and says, "Yum! I smell maple syrup!"
The mama mole sticks her head out of the hole, sniffs the air and says, "Yum! I smell honey!"
The baby mole tries to stick his head out of the hole, to sniff the air, but cant because the bigger moles are in the way so he says, "Geez, all I can smell is........
MOLASSES!
At the last minute, just as the juice began to flow, he did achieve total consiousness. Which is nice.
He's dead and if he's in the ground, the pesty little bastards may be still bothering him.
That's funny.
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