Kearnstd
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Derfel
Re: Incroyable!
notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage.
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pnh102
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| said by Kearnstd  :notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage. HAHAHAHA I would pay good money to see someone try to steal copper from the power company 
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Hall
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said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company... This is about criminals, right ? And most criminals are stupid, right ? I'm looking for the article, but it did happen here in Dayton. Needless to say, after a couple of weeks or a month of certainly extreme pain in the hospital, this guy won't be stealing *anything* anymore...
Here's a very brief, and old, story about this incident: Man Shocked By Wire In Dayton In Intensive Care
The man shocked while allegedly trying to steal copper Thursday afternoon is in Intensive Care after getting burned.
Police said 48-year-old Grover Scott took an ax and chopped through a powerline carrying more than 13,000 volts of power.
The electricity burned Scott over 40 percent of his body on Edwin C. Moses Boulevard.
The incident knocked out power to part of the city including Sinclair Community College. »www.whiotv.com/news/9314409/detail.html |
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Doctor Four
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Dallas, TX | It happened in Dallas a few weeks ago. A man was fatally
electrocuted after he tried to steal copper from a live
power line.
Someone said he'd looked like he had been through a
bug zapper. |
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Anonymous
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said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage. Wrong  |
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dave
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not in ohio | reply to Hall
'Carrying X volts of power'. Sigh. Science education isn't what it used to be. |
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CCTVTech
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A commercial building near me had its breaker boxes broke into and and the copper ripped out. |
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N3OGH
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Philly burbs | reply to Hall
Darwin award nominee...... |
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csalazarv
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Costa Rica | reply to pnh102
too bad I dont have the clip but a few months ago a thief was caugh stealing cable from the power lines and the news crew got him at the moment when he got electrocuted and then after a 12 ft fall.............hits the ground |
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elios
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Springfield, MO | reply to Kearnstd
in MD when thay were building the over head for the Lightrail people were stealing the copper
there were a few that even tryed once the over head was energized >.> |
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The Folsom
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said by Hall :said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company... This is about criminals, right ? And most criminals are stupid, right ? I'm looking for the article, but it did happen here in Dayton. Needless to say, after a couple of weeks or a month of certainly extreme pain in the hospital, this guy won't be stealing *anything* anymore... Here's a very brief, and old, story about this incident: Man Shocked By Wire In Dayton In Intensive Care
The man shocked while allegedly trying to steal copper Thursday afternoon is in Intensive Care after getting burned.
Police said 48-year-old Grover Scott took an ax and chopped through a powerline carrying more than 13,000 volts of power.
The electricity burned Scott over 40 percent of his body on Edwin C. Moses Boulevard.
The incident knocked out power to part of the city including Sinclair Community College. »www.whiotv.com/news/9314409/detail.html "Paging Charles Darwin... Charles Darwin, please pick up the 'Buzzing Red Phone in the Intensive Care Unit... Charles Darwin, pick up the 'Buzzing Red Phone in the Intensive Care Unit...' Thank you..."
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dvd536
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said by pnh102 :said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage. HAHAHAHA I would pay good money to see someone try to steal copper from the power company Oh i see big spools of this thick copper electrical cable in contruction areas. a guy i know regularly steals this stuff, takes bolt cutters in to cut it. then he strips the rubber insulation off it, recycling yards pay about 2 dollars for a foot of this quality cable. course these thefts are passed on to the homebuyer whos having their houses built.
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dvd536
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Volts isnt what kills you, its the amperes.
a cops tazer has 50K volts. true it hurts but doesn't do much damage(i think the barbs they shoot hurt more than the current does.
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Anonymous_
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all u need is a power outage |
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Nanoprobe
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said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage. You would think nobody would be stupid enough to try and steal from the power companies but a guy was killed here in central Fl. trying to do just that. How quick does 72,000 volts fry you?
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Maggs
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I'd be shocked to see anyone live to see their day in court if they stole copper from the power company 
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Maggs
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Hell, I could have looted Con Ed's copper underground lines for 8 days straight
Walks into bank with $20,000 in cash.... I'd like to make a deposit.
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pnh102
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said by Maggs :I'd be shocked to see anyone live to see their day in court if they stole copper from the power company There's one way to get Westinghoused
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fireflier
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Limbo | reply to Kearnstd
Uh, yeah they do. And some of them die doing it. Check out my post above. . .
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