Man Electrocuted by Do-it-yourself Mole Killer

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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. "