Suspected rooftop burglar electrocuted
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kmkalf
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natural selection at its best
rockwithjason
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that should be the outcome of every copper theft
jlckmj
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It's called JUSTICE
jim
jim
Charles (in GA)
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"The man also had a screwdriver and a crack pipe, according to the report."
Crack makes you stupid, if you were not already. Has ruined a lot of lives.
Charles
Crack makes you stupid, if you were not already. Has ruined a lot of lives.
Charles
Reminds me of a man electrocuted at a construction site a few years ago in St. Louis. There was a great uproar about negligent construction companies leaving live wires lying around to kill innocents - ignoring that he had climbed a locked gate to get in in the first place. On further investigation, it turned out he was engaged in copper thievery. Uproar kinda petered out.
uniballer
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He had it coming!
PugetDude
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Probably might come as a shock to some here on GJ, but I find these kinds of stories electrifying.
Greatbear
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No sympathy from me, that's for sure.
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Speedy Petey
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One less crackhead. Unfortunately there are three waiting to take his place.
It's a shame how society makes people smoke crack and commit crimes.
Just ask them, they'll tell you how it's not their fault.
A) The whole "path to ground" is wrong.
B) If he was cutting only one wire HOW could it be 240V. It was 120V.
Trivial I know to lay people, but wrong nonetheless.
It's a shame how society makes people smoke crack and commit crimes.
Just ask them, they'll tell you how it's not their fault.This is where wrong information and urban myths are perpetuated.
A) The whole "path to ground" is wrong.
B) If he was cutting only one wire HOW could it be 240V. It was 120V.
Trivial I know to lay people, but wrong nonetheless.
road
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O M G what a dumb a$$ move..
There is nothing worse than a thief.
Add the crack even better
There is nothing worse than a thief.
Add the crack even better
creativecars
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karma
djjsr
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I suggest adding a warning to the Crackhead's Handbook. "Always call the utility company first before you work on main service lines."
pepi
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Could not have happened to a nicer or more well deserving fellow.
Crispy bugler king
Crispy bugler king
Diesel Dan
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All I can say is,
No sympathy here either.
No sympathy here either.
Jarcese
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One less crackhead. Unfortunately there are three waiting to take his place.
It's a shame how society makes people smoke crack and commit crimes.
This is where wrong information and urban myths are perpetuated.
A) The whole "path to ground" is wrong.
B) If he was cutting only one wire HOW could it be 240V. It was 120V.
Trivial I know to lay people, but wrong nonetheless.
The news ALWAYS gets EVERYTHING wrong about anything to do with electricity. Makes you wonder about all the facts that they fudge on things we're not as well versed in.
Falcon67
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What they don't know, they tend to make up. Because most of the viewing public doesn't know either.
And I'd think it was probably three phase anyway. ?
Elvenhome21
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Yeah I dont buy it. To get "burned" that bad Id suspect youd have to be at bare minimum 1000 volts.
Jarcese
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120v will cause burns if you hang on long enough I.E. your heart stopping and falling into the wires. Current going through your body will probably take max time for the primary fuse to blow if you're hung up on the secondary side if it even made enough current to blow at all.
It's usually the fire or police department who tells the news how and why it happened. They just use words that they've heard from working with the POCO on detail jobs and emergencies. They only know 4 or 5 words. Transformer, volts, surge, current.. Nobody knows whether they're right or making stuff up except for people who work with electricity for a living. I've had a good handful of jobs that I was on that made the news and everything was wrong about what they reported. Most POCO employees are not allowed to give interviews and the company spokespeople don't know what happened so they don't talk either.
By the time an investigation is done, everybody has lost interest besides family members and nobody gets to know what actually happened.
It's usually the fire or police department who tells the news how and why it happened. They just use words that they've heard from working with the POCO on detail jobs and emergencies. They only know 4 or 5 words. Transformer, volts, surge, current.. Nobody knows whether they're right or making stuff up except for people who work with electricity for a living. I've had a good handful of jobs that I was on that made the news and everything was wrong about what they reported. Most POCO employees are not allowed to give interviews and the company spokespeople don't know what happened so they don't talk either.
By the time an investigation is done, everybody has lost interest besides family members and nobody gets to know what actually happened.
rockwithjason
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nah, i used to burn up hot dogs for my apprenticeship classes all the time. who knows how long he cooked there before they got him off
manioso
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Article says it was Tire Shop, so they probably had 3 phase for compressors, etc. and therefore were at least 208Y or 230delta or 460delta. The latter two would produce a voltage in excess of 200v phase to ground. Easily enough to fry someone without tripping breakers.
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I live in Iowa and last month Darwin took down another of these idiots. Some ***** and his buddy climbed an electrical pole to try to take out a transformer for it's copper....Last I heard he was going to live, but both arms needed to be amputated....Too bad he didn't fall to his death. I have NO sympathy for thieves. I rank them just barely below murderers.
Jarcese
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Most likely phase to ground higher than 200 would be 277. There's probably only a handful of people that are ever going to know. If a criminal gets hurt, nobody cares and the investigation goes nowhere. If a regular person/worker gets hurt, the investigation gets ******* and/or buried forever. Very rare that you actually get first hand reports from someone who knows what they're talking about.
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wjamyers
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this happens anytime professionals or experts read news media reports relevant to their area of expertise.
media are paid liars. assume everything you read or hear in the news is either incorrect or a lie and you'll be better off than imagining it's correct.
G_P
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Industrial? I never knew my house was considered industrial!
Bronson
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Shocking!
FarmerPete
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As an IT Professional, I get a good laugh at every movie or TV show where they try to dive in to the technicals of computers. It's really disgracing. Hire a nerd for an hour of consulting time people! Oh my gosh!
Garage Coffee Roaster
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Crack is wack
Well, no. There's no death penalty for theft.
But, every copper thief should be rewarded with severe enough injuries to guarantee his capture and conviction, and left with some little permanent injury to remind him not to do that any more.
Prototyper
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"and he cut into the wire, which contained aluminum."
Haha, if that's true, would't that be a kick in the nuts! What's the scrap rate these days for aluminum service wire???
Haha, if that's true, would't that be a kick in the nuts! What's the scrap rate these days for aluminum service wire???
BearCuda
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I wonder what will happen to the screwdriver and bolt cutters? Go to auction? I wonder if it was a Snap On screwdriver.
machine_punk
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I laughed out loud on that one...good thing I was taking a drink at the time, I would have spewed through my nose!
Kev
The sad part is that the turd will cost taxpayers millions for the rest of his miserable "no arm" life -- prison time, healthcare, then welfare/section 8/food stamps the rest of his life.
What kind of ***** climbs an electrical tower to nick a transformer?
DanCo
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I see nothing wrong on the outcome
Dan
Dan
inphx
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We had this local incident recently:
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/regio...s-to-arrest-of-attempted-copper-theft-suspect
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/regio...s-to-arrest-of-attempted-copper-theft-suspect
OP
Dick in Wisconsin
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And then he gloats about his misfortune on Facebook.
What a loser.
What a loser.
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In Sept. we had this story:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/...r-gets-stuck-in-milwaukee-vet--224148521.html
I remember that the TV news said that the burglar got pretty cut up when he couldn't make it into the clinic and slid back down the duct and cut himself on the screws sticking inwards.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/...r-gets-stuck-in-milwaukee-vet--224148521.html
I remember that the TV news said that the burglar got pretty cut up when he couldn't make it into the clinic and slid back down the duct and cut himself on the screws sticking inwards.
thundermug
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I can't tell you how many times my wife and I were almost electrocuted during copper heists. All while strung out or coked up. Oh, the times we had.