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Shock burns cable thief beyond recognition

........IKK - INSTANT KRISPY KRITTER ........

From correspondents in Berlin

October 09, 2007 01:27am

A THIEF in Germany was charred beyond recognition by a 10,000 volt electric shock when he tried to steal a live copper cable.

Police in the western city of Duisburg found the 32-year-old man's blackened remains by a set of cable cutters and pile of non-live cables he had already stolen.

Only because one of his hands survived incineration were officers able to identify the man as a German of Kazakh origin.

"His fingerprints were already logged on police files," a local police spokesman said.

"The force of the shock was so great that the hand was severed from his body."
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  • dongizmo
    10 k volts? he must have went up like a flash bulb[:0]
    Don
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  • jimbowby
    [8D]-My daddy always told me, keep one hand in your pocket, around electricity, that musta been IT !!!

    --[xx(][xx(]--JIMBO
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  • jimbowby
    [8D]-My daddy always told me, keep one hand in your pocket, around electricity, that musta been IT !!!

    --[xx(][xx(]--JIMBO
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  • The Dutchman
    A crispy critter indeed. Humans do not make good resistance coils.
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  • Azhunter
    Darwin strikes again!![}:)] I wonder who the family will sue?
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  • ljwrench
    There was a copper thief electrocuted (might have been two) while steeling copper from some old abandoned buildings close to where I live recently. There's an unused army ammunition plant that's being converted into an industrial park about 2 miles from my house that has had problems with people steeling. There's lot's of old abanoned industrial buildings with lots of copper wiring.
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