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Police: Man Electrocuted Trying To Steal Copper Wiring
WRTV 6 (Indianapolis) ^ | 2/16/11 | n/a

Posted on 02/17/2011 9:17:51 AM PST by DemforBush

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To: Mr. K
I am beginning to think Idocracy was a more of a documentary than a comedy.

Prophecy.

41 posted on 02/17/2011 10:02:54 AM PST by nina0113
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To: GeronL

I saw this episode on Spike TV’s “1,000 ways to die”

I guess this guy didn’t.


42 posted on 02/17/2011 10:13:42 AM PST by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: DemforBush
My cousin bought a triple dicker unit in Lowell Massachusetts.

They stripped every ounce of copper after his walk through, before the renovation. Just a strange eventuality in a $hithole that was uninhabited for years.

He was lucky that the power was down, as he would still be in court reconciling the settlements with the victims family if someone took a shocker whilst removing the wiring. He lost his a$$ financially. Those who assumed control used an politically connected arson based urban renewal mechanism to rectify the situation and walk away with a crapload of profit at the cost of a handshake and can of sterno.

43 posted on 02/17/2011 10:15:03 AM PST by mmercier
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To: DemforBush

Good! My mom works for an electrical contractor in Indianapolis, and copper wire theft is something they have obviously had to deal with.

The gene pool just got a little cleaner.


44 posted on 02/17/2011 10:17:22 AM PST by Hoosier Catholic Momma (Arkansas resident of Hoosier upbringing--Yankee with a southern twang)
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To: andy58-in-nh

“For a moment at least, I suspect he actually was the brightest bulb in the room...”

You made my day.


45 posted on 02/17/2011 10:20:28 AM PST by oldbill
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To: ArrogantBustard

The kilowatts didn’t do anything that the meth wouldn’t have done eventually.”

Just think how much taxpayer money was wasted putting this creep thru public school for a number of years!!!

The taxpayers get screwed from every angle.


46 posted on 02/17/2011 10:23:52 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: andy58-in-nh

Har!


47 posted on 02/17/2011 10:24:10 AM PST by Hunton Peck (...and get your stinkin' feet off the taxpayers' furniture, punk.)
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To: catnipman

A “10 for execution”.... zing!

lol


48 posted on 02/17/2011 10:25:08 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: DemforBush

Ohm my this is shocking! This act has the capacity to induct him into the Darwin Hall of Fame. Too bad he wasn’t grounded in common sense.


49 posted on 02/17/2011 10:26:19 AM PST by Seruzawa (What's Democrat's legacy? Almost 1/2 million dead US soldiers and collapsed cities.)
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To: ridesthemiles
The taxpayers get screwed from every angle.

The taxpayers won't have to pay for his trial, his defense at trial, or his incarceration ...

;'}

50 posted on 02/17/2011 10:27:04 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: 240B

Around here they have to be a licensed contractor, or sign some statement and give a DL number or some such stuff. A couple of times over the past year, I’ve had a scrap guy pull up to our garage and try and sell us a load of copper pipes.

I talked to one of the guys, he had some story about how he didn’t have time to go to the scrap yard, and would sell me the whole rusted pickup bed full of copper for a song.

I told him to beat feet. I didn’t call the cops, but my wife said I should have, and in retrospect, I should have.

I wasn’t in the shop when the 2nd guy came around last summer, a Mexican guy with a van full of wire scraps and other odds and ends. Our shop foreman sent him packing.

So, I’m sure there are some trade shops acting as middle man for these scavengers.


51 posted on 02/17/2011 10:35:42 AM PST by esoxmagnum
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To: DemforBush

This happens from time to time - thief got his reward, and saved the cost of a trial.


52 posted on 02/17/2011 10:36:55 AM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: oldbill

I couldn’t resist. Neither could he, apparently.


53 posted on 02/17/2011 10:37:50 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: wbill

Ohm Ohm on the Range.......


54 posted on 02/17/2011 10:40:37 AM PST by esquirette ("Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." ~ Augustine)
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To: DemforBush
What electricity can do to a man: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fc0_1243424473.

What electricity can do to a tree: http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/tree-death-by-electrocution/ (much slower, wood not being such a good conductor).

55 posted on 02/17/2011 10:43:37 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

The penalty for breaking “Ohm’s Law” is shocking.


56 posted on 02/17/2011 10:48:28 AM PST by greenhornet68
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To: ArrogantBustard
Is that the mugshot from his latest caper?

≤}B^)

57 posted on 02/17/2011 11:06:08 AM PST by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

Sometimes God will get you.


58 posted on 02/17/2011 11:06:54 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: andy58-in-nh
That's a good thought, Andy; let me aphorize it for ya:

"Copper thieves. Once in a while they are the brightest bulb on the tree."

59 posted on 02/17/2011 11:09:21 AM PST by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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To: Gena Bukin

“... opening scene of Idiocracy”.

Hysterical!


60 posted on 02/17/2011 11:14:04 AM PST by momtothree
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