Posted on 06/29/2009 1:33:10 PM PDT by llevrok
POND EDDY, N.Y. - New York authorities say a man was fatally electrocuted early Saturday when he tried to cut through a downed power line with an industrial saw.
Authorities say the 64-year-old Pond Eddy man was drunk and ignored repeated orders to stay away from the cable.
The accident happened in the presence of firefighters who had been guarding the fallen line.
The Sullivan County public safety commissioner says officials chased the man away from the line several times before he fetched the saw from his house.
Authorities say the line fell in a storm yesterday and had been down for about seven hours while utility crews tended to damage elsewhere.
I’ll bet his family is lining (no pun intended) up an attorney as I type this.
One less idiot to inhabit the gene pool.
“We just figured he was going to do it anyway, so we gave up trying to stop him...”
Is there any other kind?
After all, it's short for ELECTRical exeCUTION.
fatally electrocuted?..........as opposed to NOT fatally electrocuted?...............
I wonder if his being dead disqualifies him from serving as Czar of Electrical Energy?
At 64, he's probably already swum and dried off by now.
I guess he couldn’t come up with a better way to CUT his Power Bills....
Shocking!!!!
That couldn’t have been pretty. Reminds me of that video on youtube of the Indian standing on top of an electric train and grabbing the overhead line.
BTTT
The insulated housing on say a sawzall is good for 110v, maybe 220. The power line on a street might be 13,000 volts. That would power through thin plastic like a red hot knife through a half of a butter patty.
Stupid, active and persistent is a really bad combination.
This should have been posted under "current events".
How do you accidentally saw through a power line?
Kind of like an idiot reporterette on the news who said that Billy Mays "woke up dead"...
As my wife usually says when something like this happens, “That’s how we thin the herd”.
If he has kids, he’s not eligible for a Darwin Award, since he already polluted the gene pool. But if not, he’s a shoe in!
Don’t you just hate it when that happens?...............
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