A German teenager turned off the life-support machine of a fellow hospital patient last week because he said he couldn't sleep with the noise.
Frederik Moelner's attempts to get some shut-eye were interrupted by the noisy machine that was keeping the 76-year-old in the neighboring bed breathing.
So the 17-year-old, who was recovering from a car accident, decided he had had enough of the beeps coming from Hermann Berghof's bed and decided to turn his life support off.
The medical staff at the hospital in Southern Germany quickly realized what had happened, and reconnected the lucky pensioner, who survived. A police spokesman said: "Luckily the medical staff acted promptly-- if there had been any delay the old man could have died."
The German teenager is now being questioned by police, who say the boy claims to have "just wanted some peace and quiet".
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