Woman says £30 Puma sliders saved her life after she was nearly electrocuted while vacuuming her fake lawn

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A woman has said her £30 Puma sliders saved her life after she was nearly electrocuted while vacuuming her artificial lawn. Kerry Tattersley, 36, was vacuuming her fake grass lawn in her backyard when she went to unplug the extension lead and touched a live current.

The resulting contact from the electric shock produced enough force to throw her back into the nearby wall. The support worker from Halifax, said: "I was in my garden vaccing my artificial grass and my extension lead was plugged in too.

I had finished vaccing the grass and went to unplug the extension and the back plastic bit must have been loose. Read more: Specialist teams continue to search Oldham mill after human remains found "I didn't know, and I grabbed it and it fell off while I had hold of the plug and I got electrocuted and I got flung back into my wall.

The pain was like a dull ache and a massive tingle through my body and it was like electricity going through my arms. "I was running up and down my kitchen.