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Bid to electrocute moles fatally backfires
January 12, 2007 - 2:37PM
A German retiree who wired up a high-voltage cable to try to wipe out the moles digging up his garden has killed himself instead.
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, police spokesman Uwe Werner said.
"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."
I don't know. People, eh?
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