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 Edmond_Dantes
   
Location: Texas
Gender: Male
Dance Your Cares Away
 |  |  | Copper thieves zapped!
< on 3/29/2007 11:27 PM >
|  | | | So I'm cruising CNN as I'm apt to do. I see this headline "copper thieves killed by wire they were stealing!"
It has since changed to "Men fatally zapped by wire they were stealing"
I can't link to it because it's a video with no separate URL.
go to CNN.com main page, the stories just to the right of the big picture, 9th story down.
It's about time. The news should make this a big story to try to discourage as many as possible.
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Captain Obvious
 
Location: among the tank farms
Gender: Male
in ur xbox...there are midgets
| | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 1 on 3/29/2007 11:34 PM >
| | | | Why can't we just bring the power systems of all abandonments back on line? Darwin at work.
Nov. 24, 2007--The city of Cleveland, Ohio, announces that it has developed tactical nuclear weapons, and does not wish to hear any more jokes.
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blacksunshine
Location: The Midwest
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 2 on 3/30/2007 12:46 AM >
|  | | | I'm rather happy myself also.
I had a contract last year at a Nuke plant and some of the stories I heard about the balls some of these guys (thieves) had made me laugh. I figured it would be only a matter of time. The one story that sticks out in my mind in particular is that one night a sub-station either blew or shorted out, something of the sort. A trouble crew was sent out to investigate. After arriving the crew found smoldering boots melted to the ground. They never did find out who the person was or if they even made alive (maybe a friend took the bod to the hospital). The guy/s tried to cut into a huge voltage line while it was live.
I've been hearing some pretty nasty stories here in Illinois from the railroaders. I pretty much get to talk to about all the com/signal guys around what ever state I am in so I usually prod them for stories and such. Seems the thieves have been hitting them pretty good too. From what I understand from talking with some of the RR "Special Agents", they usually wind up catching a majority of the retards. At the scrap yards none the less. You would think the morons would learn.
“Try not to become a man of success rather try to become a man of value.”
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G to the Race
 
Hi!
| | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 3 on 3/30/2007 1:02 AM >
| | | | I came here after seeing that video. Sucks to be dead, but unauthorized destruction of property will sometimes get you that.
You betcha |
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NextelCupMK
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Location: Waltham, Mass and Athenry, Galway
Donkey Could KICK the ASS out of Action's monkey
| |  |  | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 4 on 3/30/2007 1:37 PM >
| | | | Okay we shouldn't be like good. We don't know why he did this, he could have a family. I know I wouldn't want someone to be like good he died, if it was my dad.
*edit* did this fast because i was in computer class*
[last edit 3/31/2007 12:26 AM by NextelCupMK - edited 1 times]
spunking cock
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FyRePhReAk
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Gender: Male
disassociative
| | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 5 on 3/30/2007 1:57 PM >
| | | | Posted by NextelCupMK
Okay we should be like good. We don't know why he did this, he could have a family. I know I wouldn't want someone to be like good he died, if it was my dad.
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this is of course assuming the person in question had the cerebral capacity to figure out HOW to procreate. My money is on most likely not.
Walk away. |
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blackhawk
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Location: Mission Control
UER newbie
| | | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 6 on 3/30/2007 5:06 PM >
| | | | For destroying the infrastructure of industry and civilization, and being an ignorant, selfish, lazy, self-centered thief, he got exactly what he deserved.
I'd pay to watch someone try to steal a live 12 KV or larger bus bar without powering it down. Call it a character flaw...or maybe just a wicked sense of humor.
CRACK!- HUMMMMMMMM, click....HMMMMMMM, click....HMMMMMM, click.
oh my...
"They had made a cut into a wire that they thought was a ground wire, but it turned out to be live," Tyngsborough police officer Richard Burrows said.
They were electrocuted with approximately 13,000 volts of electricity.
National Grid workers shut the power off so that emergency crews could pull the men away from the sub-station. They spotted freshly-cut copper wire. Some of it had been piled next to the victims' pickup truck.
http://cms.firehou...tionId=46&id=54063
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 7 on 3/30/2007 5:32 PM >
| | | | Posted by FyRePhReAk
this is of course assuming the person in question had the cerebral capacity to figure out HOW to procreate. My money is on most likely not.
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Sadly it's usually the dumb ones that have kids early and often.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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Duncantx
Location: Tulsa, OK
Gender: Male
| | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 8 on 3/30/2007 7:16 PM >
| | | | if the electricity doesnt get them, the asbestos the copper is wrapped in sometimes will.
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Bones
Location: st.paul, minnesota
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 9 on 3/30/2007 7:40 PM >
| | | | ASHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHHAHAHAH FUCK YEA
out and under the town |
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Chrysis
Location: Moncks Corner, SC
Gender: Female
| |  | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 10 on 3/30/2007 7:42 PM >
| | | | Posted by Freak
Sadly it's usually the dumb ones that have kids early and often.
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Yep.... procreation is just animal instinct.... no brain cells required. I think it takes alot more intelligence to NOT have kids. And as for the copper thieves getting fried.... my only thought is a good ol' Nelson's "Ha-HA!".
Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or play with it, Just pee on it and walk away. |
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aaronni
Location: South Puget Sound
| | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 11 on 3/31/2007 12:33 AM >
| | | | Posted by Chrysis
My only thought is a good ol' Nelson's "Ha-HA!".
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Just what I was thinking.
[last edit 3/31/2007 12:34 AM by aaronni - edited 1 times]
never know until you go |
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Brooks
Location: Fall River Ma
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 12 on 3/31/2007 1:12 AM >
| | | | Meh sucks for that guy. At least copper thieves are doing somthing with the buildings. The real criminals are the owners who let these places fall to complete shit, whatever flame me away just make sure to pm me the flames because I wont be checking this thread again.
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blackhawk
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Location: Mission Control
UER newbie
| | | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 13 on 3/31/2007 2:45 AM >
| | | | Posted by AaronNi
Just what I was thinking.
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I almost posted they same pic myself. Damn talk about a collective mind.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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SteamPunk
Location: Sailing the seas of sleaze.
| | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 14 on 3/31/2007 3:57 AM >
| | | | Posted by blackhawk
For destroying the infrastructure of industry and civilization, and being an ignorant, selfish, lazy, self-centered thief, he got exactly what he deserved.
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Are you fucking serious Blackhawk??? I don't admire thieves, in fact I hate them. however, destroying the unsustainable machine of industry that is built overconsumption is fine with me. Rage against the machine. incidently...this happens a few times a year around vancouver as well.
[last edit 3/31/2007 4:06 AM by SteamPunk - edited 3 times]
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too! |
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minusonebit
Location: Oklahoma City, OK, United States
Gender: Male
Will Explore for Food
| |  |  | | | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 15 on 3/31/2007 4:08 AM >
| | | | Good riddance.
Though, Blackhawk, it is possible to work on live equipment. They make insulted tools for this purpose. But they are not easily obtained and are very expensive.
Commit a Random Act of Exploration. |
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eidolon
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
| | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 16 on 3/31/2007 4:34 AM >
| | | | Now we just need to start slathering the copper pipes and wiring in abandonments with contact poison!
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Chrysis
Location: Moncks Corner, SC
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 17 on 3/31/2007 4:37 AM >
| | | | Posted by minusonebit
Good riddance.
Though, Blackhawk, it is possible to work on live equipment. They make insulted tools for this purpose. But they are not easily obtained and are very expensive.
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'Insulted' tools? Did you mean insulated? Or are those tools just really sensitive? J/K..... we all know how tough most tools are.... they really are hard to insult. Unless you talk about their mommas.......
Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or play with it, Just pee on it and walk away. |
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Soldat
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Gender: Male
The Mayor of Noobtown
| | | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 18 on 3/31/2007 7:25 AM >
| | | | I think its pretty funny they were dumb enough to cut into a high voltage wire like that. Well, there are a few less worthless parasites in the world now. Hurray!
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MattTrakker
Location: North Shore, MA
Gender: Male
Mark it zero!
| | | Re: Copper thieves zapped!
<Reply # 19 on 4/1/2007 6:54 AM >
| | | | Survival of the fittest applies here...usually Darwin's laws are defeated by welfare and WIC and all that stuff.
I saw this on TV when it happened, I don't get what the hell they were thinking because while they were outside an empty warehouse that wasn't really all that abandoned as far as UE goes, they went up to a fenced in electrical substation and cut 13,000 volt wires or whatever it was. What were they thinking? These guys weren't any stupid kids either, one was in like his late 50s I think.
I know it's sad but you just don't mess with electricity when you aren't sure of something in general. Tards.
I also thought it looked slightly funny in a dark and morbid way, from the news copter vantage point I saw, the way the guys landed, people standing around, etc...Looks like they got blown a good distance from where they got zapped. All I could think was "Wanh-Wahhhhhh", or the sound it makes on the Price is Right when you lose a pricing game.
"Walter, what are you doing, man?"
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