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."
LOL, figgered you deserve the warning.
Shocking. Simply shocking.
He, on the other hand, was.
you just can't make this stuff up...
The dead guy only managed to "out" himself as a Russian spy.
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