Posted on 02/28/2008 6:31:07 PM PST by Orange1998
Yeah he may be a winner without even dying.
Shocks like that with burns can burn/blow off some things you need to reproduce.
I had electrical wires ripped out of a house that we were building. Quite a few houses around town got hit last year.
I reinstalled them on the roof this time. We shall see.
What..... being a thief or the way he did it. :)
Maybe next time he will not do that again. Let me restate, maybe in his next life he will not do that again.
“You’ll never take me alive, copper!”
See, this is why we need national health care. The thief is probably worried to death about how he’s going to pay for his hospital care.
When I was a kid theives would give nothing less then %110!
Guys around my area build steel cages around the outside units. Nobody uses copper pipe for plumbing lines anymore and the first thing they install in any rehab project is an alarm system. A lot of these builders would gladly donate some copper to the thieves, though - a couple of copper-jacketed hollow points. And they’d even offer “express delivery” of them.
Maybe dynachrome was right that the danger sign was in english only.
Last year Hawaii was plagued by copper thieves, as soon as a new home was built the thieves went in and ripped out all the plumbing and wiring, also street lights are losing their wiring.
Copper is the poor mans gold right now, per pound even the older real copper pennies are worth more per pound by scrap metal prices.
I am about to put up a sign on my business entrance stating no scrap metal collectors allowed as they continuously try to talk themselves into our back lot where I have acres of aluminum frames and motors.
***I mean his skin was just coming off,”***
Third degree burns. If he survives, which sounds unlikely, his friends may start calling him “Sparky”!
I'd imagine there would be two kinds of ground connections. One kind is the "ground", which might be relatively safe to cut, as it normally does not carry current. The other would be the "neutral", which carries running current to ground. Sounds like he misjudged a bit... ouch!
An copper stealing Einstein in my town got toasted when he used a bolt cutter to sever the main going into a service box in an abandoned K-Mart a while back.
“I am about to put up a sign on my business entrance stating no scrap metal collectors allowed as they continuously try to talk themselves into our back lot where I have acres of aluminum frames and motors.”
Put a couple of dogs back there for after hours.
Copper thieves would live a lot longer if they bothered to learn something about electricity.
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