He’s lucky he lived.
We had a meth-head last year who tried stealing the copper wire from a live substation. The Fire Department had to wait 45 minutes for the power to be turned off before they could put him out and recover what was left. I can only imagine the joy one might feel at the decision to become a Civl Servant when faced with something like that to clean up on behalf of the public...
Why do you think they call it “DOPE”
They should have just left him there as warning to the next one.