OMEN
06-03-2008, 11:09 AM
A Romanian electrician claims he doesn't get electric shocks even when he touches live wires without protection.
Constantin Craiu, 51, from Buzau, says he can stick two nails into a power socket and feel only his fingers getting warm.
Mr Craiu said: "One day when I was working as an electrician for the railway company, I had to make some repairs to a building's network.
"I asked my colleague to disconnect the power and started doing my job. It was only after I finished that we both realised I was working with live wires."
Local media dubbed him the Electric Man after he performed a demonstration for journalists in which he put two wires into an electricity socket then used his hands as conductors to turn on a lamp.
Specialists say Mr Craiu's skin might be unusually resistant to electricity or he may have an unknown anomaly which protects his heart from shocks.
Annanaova
Constantin Craiu, 51, from Buzau, says he can stick two nails into a power socket and feel only his fingers getting warm.
Mr Craiu said: "One day when I was working as an electrician for the railway company, I had to make some repairs to a building's network.
"I asked my colleague to disconnect the power and started doing my job. It was only after I finished that we both realised I was working with live wires."
Local media dubbed him the Electric Man after he performed a demonstration for journalists in which he put two wires into an electricity socket then used his hands as conductors to turn on a lamp.
Specialists say Mr Craiu's skin might be unusually resistant to electricity or he may have an unknown anomaly which protects his heart from shocks.
Annanaova