While the DIY (do it yourself) movement is yielding some excellent medgadgets, one German’s DIY mole killing device turned out to be an anti-medgadget…
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”
Unfortunate, this serves as a reminder as to why all electrical medical devices must be properly grounded such that there’s no current path through the patient to ground. As it turns out the 50/60Hz AC that’s used is pretty much the worst frequency possible from a safety standpoint.
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