Posted on 03/24/2017 2:39:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Wales man has been arrested again for allegedly trying to hook up jumper cables to steal electricity from a Central Maine Power pole and transformer.
Nicholas Gagne, 36, initially was arrested in January at his 237 Oak Hill Road home after he was accused by Central Maine Power officials of repeatedly climbing a power pole outside his house to connect “what amounted to jumper cable clamps” to the transformer and running a power line to his house.
On Thursday morning, Gagne was arrested again near his home at 237 Oak Hill Road after state police Trooper Tyler Plourde, acting on a tip, caught Gagne climbing the same pole, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Thursday.
Gagne spotted the trooper and fled into an outbuilding, where he was arrested without resistance, McCausland said. He is charged with violating the conditions of his release from his previous arrest as well as new theft and criminal mischief charges.
Gagne is being held without bail at the Androscoggin County Jail. CMP was called to the site to inspect its equipment.
A CMP official told police in January that employees had disconnected the jury-rigged line three times but that Gagne kept reconnecting it.
The official told state police that while he was impressed with Gagne’s ingenuity, the man risked electrocuting himself and others and his actions posed a significant fire danger.
I applaud his persistence.
Electricity is a right.
Was he wearing a hard hat? If not OSHA might be after his butt.
Maybe it is the red wire... aaaahhhhh!
Maybe the green wire... aaaahhhhh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-W8Ox3YsAE
Never hear it called "jury-rigged" before. I always heard some other term.
“A Wales man has been arrested again for allegedly trying “
Wonder what the statute number for ‘alledgedly trying’ is ...
Jerry-rigged?
I guess they thought it insulted Germans.
He needs to take a course in the art of camouflage.
It looked something like this (WARNING! Graphic Image):
http://i.cdn.turner.com/ireport/sm/prod/2014/06/06/WE01115509/3293956/polemanjpg-3293956_p9.jpg
Stealing electricity from power poles is common in the slums of South America. The local newspapers show, from time to time, a ‘professional’ electricity thief hanging lifeless from their feet thirty feet up, having touched the wrong wire.
If anyone deserves the electric chair....
It’s a term from the age of sail.
The ignorant slur that leapt into your mind is a pernicious debauching of the term.
Never hear it called “jury-rigged” before. I always heard some other term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rigging
I have heard it for decades.
Jury-rigged is the polite term. That saying has been around for a long time.
Depends on how he conducts himself.
Most people don’t have the capacity to understand that.
For breaking Ohm's law?
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