In the German city of Duisburg, police found the blackened remains of a 32-year-old man, along with a set of cable cutters and a pile of cables he had already stolen.

The body was that of a known felon, who had tried to steal a 10,000 volt carrying live copper wire. The force of the shock had blown the robber's hand clean off, before the rest of the body was incinerated. This was useful, as it allowed police to use his already logged fingerprints to identify him.

Reuters