I’ve got a live one here.
Looks like Antoine got a little hot under the collar.
Posted on 01/08/2026 2:51:09 AM PST by Libloather
An apparently homeless thief was electrocuted to death while trying to steal copper wiring from a California construction site — as power was knocked out to 2,500 homes, reports said.
The unidentified man was killed Sunday in a vacant strip mall that’s in the process of being demolished, with witnesses saying they heard a loud explosion at around 2 p.m. before electricity went out for several hours, police told CBS News.
The explosion is believed to be a transformer that blew up, knocking out power for several hours, Pomona police said.
One neighbor rushed to the scene where a woman begged him for help.
“She just kept saying, ‘Help us,’ and I was like, ‘What am I supposed to do?,'” Mykil Walker told NBC News.
A construction worker at the scene said it wasn’t the first time someone tried to nab copper from the demolition site.
“Obviously, we kick them out for security reasons and safety reasons,” Frederico Velarde told CBS. “They just keep coming back.:
The would-be thief was apparently part of a larger crew of transients that were living on the property and who had been warned about the dangers of tampering with the live wires, Velarde said.
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And it was all a lagniappe - he got fried for free...
Positive feelings here...
$13 per kilogram. 37 cents per ounce... and that’s on the commodities market, not the scrap market. You’d need to steal an entire industrial reel of wire to get any kind of decent return... yet they keep doing it.
I’ve got a live one here.
Looks like Antoine got a little hot under the collar.
Knowing the Left, they’ll solve this problem by giving out Volt Meters at homeless shelters.
“Give me video!”
The one from India is classic. A guy tries getting a ‘free ride’ on an electrically-powered train by standing on the roof. He learned that it was a one-way ticket, after turning into a lightning bolt.
Can’t blame this jughead’s demise on President Trump or ICE. This sounds more like something caused by “America’s Got Talent.”
Well, I am shocked!
It was an awkward construction, but Merriam-Webster defines "electrocuted" either to be shocked by electricity or killed, or executed by electricity. For instance, if writing about a convict on death row, the meaning of "electrocuted" would be clear in context. For a person looting a demolition site, not so much. I might have phrased the led, "A would-be thief died by electrocution when, ..." Less awkward and unambiguous.
Copper cooking another crispy critter
Newscum will announce a billion dollar project to educate the homeless on the dangers of electricity.
99.9999% of the funds will be stolen by Democrat party hacks.
Last words, “You’ll never take me alive, Copper!”
Voltmeters are cheap too.
I worked in a power plant under construction. It was said by construction workers that if you could not DOUBLE YOUR WAGES with stolen copper, you were a poor construction worker.
They would come in with a light lunch box, leave with a heavy one.
I believe his name was Sparky.
Sorry, but it seems to me that this thief did not have to go through a court trial to achieve justice.
No, the charges were thrown out.
If I remember that video .the guy was on the railroad car and the people all around were pleading to get him to get down ..but he just kept walking till he touched the power lines...and zot! The victim looked disoriented pre walking into power line.
Lots of people out there who are unable to survive
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