Don,t try this ever-off topic

Round here they have signs on railway pylons that hold the wires up"danger 22.000 volts -contact will cause death."And still they try this The article this comes from didn,t state where the wires were, this "Brilliant" thief was stealing;but they must have been for a similar purpose-powering trains or something like a high voltage line.

"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.”