stealing copper wire

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In nearby Houma a guy broke into an electric company substation to steal some copper wire, he put his cutter on the wrong wire, and clipped. Workers found his "charred body" when they showed up to find the cause of resulting power failure.
I'm not going to repeat what went through my mind when I heard the report on the news a while ago.

By the way, Houma is the site of that infamous, wild wedding/riot video that was linked to on a post here a month or so ago.

Steve W.
 
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Stevens said:
In nearby Houma a guy broke into an electric company substation to steal some copper wire, he put his cutter on the wrong wire, and clipped. Workers found his "charred body" when they showed up to find the cause of resulting power failure.
I'm not going to repeat what went through my mind when I heard the report on the news a while ago.

By the way, Houma is the site of that infamous, wild wedding/riot video that was linked to on a post here a month or so ago.

Steve W.
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I bet he won't do that again :rolleyes:

Seems that you have another contender for the Darwin awards.

We have actually had 2 guys try the same thing (at different times, same sub-station)....they showed the first guy on the news when he got cooked, and it wasn't a few weeks before the 2nd guy got his (I think they might have been cousins).
 
I think if more copper thieves ended up this way, maybe they would find another line of work. I put them on the social ladder just above meth cooks.
 
Don't know about the copper but the food is great there! The company I worked for in the past had some lime kilns in the area that burned oyster shell.When I visited we were treated to the local restaurants for some great local food.Only place I remember seeing turtle soup on the special of the day board!
 
Copper thieves; now available in two flavors. Original and Extra Crispy.
 
Just because it's a " ground wire " , doesn't mean it's not carrying current .
 
Finding that you clipped the wrong cable would sure make you hot under the collar.
 
Some scumbag(s) stole a bunch of Rebar from the construction site for a new SPCA shelter being built in the area. Now, it will be longer before the poor creatures in that shelter will get a better facility. I hope the creep(s) gets attacked by a pack of rabid pitbulls...I hope the copper thief didn't get the chance to breed. His demise helps to improve the gene pool a bit...
 
Um... yeah... riiiiiiight....

"She said her son left behind many people who loved him, including his three daughters..."

Where is the "roll-eyes" smiley when you really need it?

John
 
How ironic. I was with a group of friends this morning having coffee and was reading the Tulsa World. There was a story about a power outage because some *** clowns were stealing copper wire from a distribution station.

I just wish they had got fried like this clown.

I've got absolutely no pity for people like this.

Fry'm !
 
Trouble is that the family of the thief will sue (and win) a bunch of money 'cause the place wasn't safe to steal from.

" ... left behind many people who loved him, including his three daughters..."

It'd be for the children, ya' know.

GF
 
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