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Roy56
10-14-2007, 10:38 AM
Tip to copper wire thieves: Not the live ones
10,000-volt shock leaves cable thief to be ID’d by prints from severed hand.

BERLIN - A thief in Germany was charred beyond recognition by a 10,000-volt electric shock when he tried to steal a live copper cable, authorities said Monday.

Police in the western city of Duisburg found the 32-year-old man's blackened remains by a set of cable cutters and a pile of 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."

Koga
10-14-2007, 11:23 PM
for a second ! He should have found another job .

Koga