You probably don't want to fake a heart attack with electric underpants

Ah yes, the old "electric underpants" scam. Usually this one is reserved for impressing the ladies, but some dude in England named Marcus Danquah thought he'd use a pair to try and scam an appliance manufacturer out of some cash. Seems he modded an iron to make it deliver an electric shock, then went to a hospital claiming that the iron had shocked him and used a pair of tricked-out electrical underpants to "fool" the electrocardigram machine into making it look like he'd suffered a heart attack. His next move, of course, was to sue the manufacturer for £300,000 in damages. Too bad he got busted; not only has his claim been dismissed, the judge presiding over the case has ordered him to pay the defendant's legal bills, too.

[Permanent4 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

Do androids dream of electric underpants?

[DeWaun @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

Ahhh... you gotta love that British legal system, imposing legal costs on the loser, and all. What a novel idea!

[Mike-o-rama @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

"the judge presiding over the case has ordered him to pay the defendant�s legal bills, too."

Isn't that SOP for the british courts?

[Jonathan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

I bet he was shocked by that outcome.

[Homan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

"I bet he was shocked by that outcome."

Haha....

[glad @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

I guess his claim just ran out of steam