Man kills self with own homemade electric chair

[Champ]

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - A 74-year-old Lithuanian man apparently killed himself by using a homemade electric chair he put together, police said Tuesday.

The man, who was not identified, was discovered Monday by his relatives who, concerned that they had not heard from him, broke down the door to his apartment in Kaunas, Lithuania's second-biggest city. Police said they found the man sitting in the chair, which had been rigged with wires and electrodes and was plugged into an electrical outlet in the wall.

The daily newspaper Respublika reported that the man had been a senior engineer for a local company that gone bankrupt, but didn't say which company it was.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/11/23/726894-ap.html

[UL_Approved]

1. Horrible

Just when you think you've heard it all.

[judge_smales]

2. .

Interesting. This must have taken some effort and forthought as straight wall current won't kill you by itself. It would need to be boosted to a much higher voltage- real electric chairs use about 40K volts.

[LibLabUK]

9. Hmm..

I didn't think it was the voltage that killed you ( harmless static discharges are often in the KV range), it was the amps... and there's more than enough amps in household wiring to kill you (toaster in the bath etc.).

[Throckmorton]

13. Nope, try again.

[underpants]

3. Man if he can get that patented he'll make a fortune!!

Yeah!

[DS1]

5. I'll put some leather over my copy and make it the passenger seat

in my car.

What? ANOTHER bathroom break? *zap!*

[bloodyjack]

4. Truly shocking

Wire some people just unable to continue living?

I think this man probably just needed an outlet for his worries.

[Champ]

6. I shouldn't be laughing

But I am. :D

[bloodyjack]

7. you, sir...

have a reVOLTing sense of humor

do you think his friends and family find anything funny about the manner in which he diode???

you are worse than Hitler

[ZenLefty]

12. And he did it in his own Ohm.

I tell ya, it's depressing lately reading about Current events.

[candy]

8. I'm laughing too----tea all over my screen---couldn't he have---

figured out a simpler way to do it?

[billyskank]

11. No that's NOT funny!

LOL! :D

[CO Liberal]

10. Wonder If He Built His Own Casket First.....

:shrug: