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Police: Man Electrocuted Trying To Steal Copper Wiring
WRTV 6 (Indianapolis) ^
| 2/16/11
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Posted on 02/17/2011 9:17:51 AM PST by DemforBush
INDIANAPOLIS -- A man was killed early Thursday morning on Indianapolis' east side as he tried to steal copper wiring from an industrial building, authorities said...
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
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KEYWORDS: electrocuted; theft
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"Police think Reynolds was there trying to steal copper wiring from a transformer bank that Indianapolis Power and Light said carries 24,000 volts."
I suppose one could quibble about no mention of AMPs, buuut I'm thinking "transformer bank" pretty much sums up what one needs to know here.
To: DemforBush
Darwin Award also-ran... ho-hum... no style at all.
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:19:23 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
To: DemforBush
Thinning the herd. Stupidity should be painful.
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:19:26 AM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(At DiDi's Used Guns, if we can't kill it, it's immortal - DiDi Snavely, Proprietor)
To: DemforBush
Now his family gets to sue!
Cha-Ching!
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:19:34 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: DemforBush
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:19:52 AM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What has more wrinkles? Helen Thomas' face or Lawrence O'Donnells' panties?)
To: DemforBush
Natural selection in action.
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:20:32 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: DemforBush
Heh heh. Serves him right.
To: DemforBush
“1000 Ways to Die” prospect.
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:22:03 AM PST
by
AU72
To: DemforBush
It’s better to ground him than put him in jail....
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:22:10 AM PST
by
henkster
(Before we make any more "investments" we ought to be shown the prospectus.)
To: DemforBush
The kilowatts didn't do anything that the meth wouldn't have done eventually.
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:24:26 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: DemforBush
And the gene pool just got a tad deeper. Just hope this moron hadn’t yet bred.
To: DemforBush
24,000 volts...
For a moment at least, I suspect he actually was the brightest bulb in the room...
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:25:17 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: DemforBush
One would naturally think that these scrap thieves would have to provide at least some proof of where they got the stuff to be able to sell it. Like a pawn shop for example.
I guess not...
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:25:36 AM PST
by
240B
(he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
To: DemforBush
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:25:55 AM PST
by
JPG
(As WI goes, so goes the nation. Thank you, Gov Walker.)
To: DemforBush
With that kind of voltage and the amps necessary for this transformer, he would have Exploded
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:26:16 AM PST
by
eyeamok
To: DemforBush
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:26:35 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: DemforBush
I suppose one could quibble about no mention of AMPsWell, when V=IR, resistance is futile.
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:28:11 AM PST
by
wbill
To: Dick Bachert
Just hope this moron hadn’t yet bred.Sadly, dirtbags like this guy seem to find no trouble in reproducing.
See the opening scene of Idiocracy.
To: DemforBush
“industrial building”
220 volts. Like grabbing the electric chair and sittin’ down.
To: andy58-in-nh
Now that’s just funny...;-)
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posted on
02/17/2011 9:29:26 AM PST
by
rockrr
("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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