Some have gotten fried stealing “live” wires.
I recall seeing where a guy close to here also got killed stealing live wires.
Also the local sheriff solved the mysterious thefts of air conditioning units from a bunch of rural churches. It turned out that they were stealing them just for the copper inside.
I did not actually know there was copper inside an ac unit. It could not have been much. They were going to all that much work just to steal maybe a few dollars worth of copper.
It would be much less work to get a job.
Doesn’t have to be “live” as some thieves have discovered the hard way. Disconnect a ground conductor from earth at a substation and see what happens.