Somehow I didn't feel overly sorry for them. [Especially as a couple of months ago copper tubing was swiped from a freezer for a food bank causing a loss of [I think] $2 million in frozen food for the needy.
I’m afraid I’m totally lacking sympathy too. These people are costing other people huge amounts of money — many times the resale value of the copper they’re stealing. When they burn themselves to a crisp in the process, I think we should put them on a high dose morphine drip and just let them expire. Instead, a few million will be spent — by the same productive taxpayers who keep getting ripped off by these thugs — in advanced medical treatment for this guy.