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Couple electrocuted while stealing copper wire
latimes.com ^
| Oct. 23, 2010
| Margot Roosevelt
Posted on 10/23/2010 9:28:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A man was electrocuted and died as he and a female partner tried to steal copper wire from an electrical vault in South Gate on Saturday afternoon, police said.
The woman tried to pull him away from the vault when it caught fire and exploded, but the electricity traveled through her body and she received severe burns, South Gate police spokesman Lt. Keith Huff said. He said she was taken to St. Francis Medical Center and transferred Saturday night to the Grossman Burn Centers.
Two small children were found in a truck 15 feet from the accident but were not injured. They were being held by childrens services workers, Huff said.
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:29:49 PM PDT
by
utherdoul
To: Free ThinkerNY
The kids are better off without their meth-head parents.
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:30:15 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This “Hope and Change” garbage isn’t working out well for most people. Copper wire can bring in some big bucks.
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:31:24 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Which are you voting for on November 2nd? Freedom and liberty or FREE ice cream?)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Obviously these are very normal people
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:31:26 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Hold my beer, and watch this!
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:32:13 PM PDT
by
BigCinBigD
(Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
To: Free ThinkerNY
A man and his female partner?? Can we be a little more descriptive?? I too am thinking illegal alien. Just stealin’ the copper wire that Americans won’t.
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:33:08 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
(We need a Comprehensive Congress Reform!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Poor kids. Both parents electrocuted while stealing. What a legacy.
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:33:43 PM PDT
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Instant Karma, just add juice.
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:34:30 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(If he were not so gruesomely incompetent and dangerous, Obama would just be silly.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
at least they weren’t selling the kids
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:34:34 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: Free ThinkerNY
“He said she was taken to St. Francis Medical Center and transferred Saturday night to the Grossman Burn Centers.”
Taxpayers will be paying for that....
“Two small children were found in a truck 15 feet from the accident but were not injured. They were being held by childrens services workers,...”
....and that.
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:34:48 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: Yaelle
Does the LA Times no longer uses the words “girlfriend” or “spouse”?
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:35:20 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:36:17 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Two kids disqualifies them from the Darwin award.
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:36:19 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
In case anyone might wonder why someone would want to steal copper; drug addicts steal copper all the time to sale and buy drugs. Whether they were druggies or not, they won’t be stealing anymore.
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:36:30 PM PDT
by
no dems
(DeMINT / PALIN 2012 or PALIN / DeMINT 2012.......Either is fine with me!)
To: Yaelle
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:38:41 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:39:19 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Gone to seed.)
To: no dems
3 dollars per pound
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:41:05 PM PDT
by
DariusBane
(People are like sheep and have two speeds: grazing and stampede)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:41:09 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(You might think that, *I* could not possibly comment.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Back where I come from, this happens all the time. Copper wiring, copper plumbing. They like to loot the local rail yards, too. Salvage companies make a pretty penny going in and gutting buildings for this sort of stuff. But one high-amp shock can ruin your life, if it doesn't cook you off in the first couple of seconds. My son-in-law and his wife ended up living in our house for a year because of this (somewhat) same thing - he worked for a fly-by-night salvage outfit that sent him into a commercial warehouse to gut the high-voltage feeder rails out of the big circuit boxes, and assured him that the power to the entire property was cut.
He spent six weeks in the region's best burn hospital from the charge he took. Melted his boots off his feet. Went through three skin grafts, and a lot of psychotherapy from the neural damage it caused. His court settlement was enough to buy a beautiful, remodeled home in town.
"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."
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posted on
10/23/2010 9:41:26 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(2010 - NO PRISONERS! NO QUARTER!)
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