"Damned if it ain't!"
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.
If he turns out to be AC/DC, he’ll get off.
They need to amp up their thinking?
The copper got him.
Better keep your ion this thread. You never know watt might happen.
Well, I think the outcome of him spending the night in jail has a positive outcome, because had he touched the wire or fell off the ladder, there would have been negative consequences for him!
Being like jail is like an adult being grounded.
Being in jail, it will be hard for him to keep current.
lol ......
stealing power is an every evening experience in New Delhi India....so funny to see a little guy connecting wires to a street light, and bright blue flash as he made the connection...
Just google “Indian power lines” - you’ll be in for a real shock.
Of course it should have been “jerry-rigged” in the context it was used. “Jury-rigged” has never been intended as a substitute for “”jerry-rugged”, its just another example of a lazy fake journalist who is likely a product of America’s failing public education system that is to busy teaching about alternate life style perversions to bother teaching historical parlance.
He may be pressing his luck. He’ll probably try again. The third time may be a charm or a strike. Something tells me he’ll make the news again.
I’d more often say jerry-rigged than jury-rigged myself, but I thought it might just be whatever part of the country you’re from. Anyway, I looked it up and learned that there is a difference. Jerry-rigged is something poorly built, while jury-rigged is something rigged temporarily in a makeshift and often ingenious manner.
With the money he saved the first time, he should have bought more wire and run from a different pole.
It's of nautical, not legal, origin. According to the dictionary, it means "a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc." It has come to mean anything makeshift.
Mourners were heard chanting “ohmmmmm”.
It will take me some time to figure out what’s watt. :)
DOH!! LOL
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