Ananova:

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.