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13th January 2007, 07:16 PM
January 12, 2007 04:43am
Article from: Reuters
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<!-- END Story Toolbar --><!-- Lead Content Panel -->A GERMAN pensioner who wired up a high-voltage cable to try to wipe out the moles digging up his garden killed himself instead. 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," Mr 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."
Article from: Reuters
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<!-- END Story Toolbar --><!-- Lead Content Panel -->A GERMAN pensioner who wired up a high-voltage cable to try to wipe out the moles digging up his garden killed himself instead. 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," Mr 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."