Posted on 01/02/2013 4:51:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 12-year-old north Florida boy shot a high-powered rifle and hit a 69,000-volt transmission line, causing almost 6,000 customers in Lynne, Silver Springs Shores, Silver Springs and Ocklawaha to lose service for several hours.
The Ocala Star-Banner (http://bit.ly/Vw7rxh) reports that the Clay Electric Co-op said the outage began at about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and lasted for about five hours.
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Reminds me of a WILLIE AND JOE cartoon by Bill Mauldin in WWII.
The boys are shooting at insulators on a transmission line.
Willie fires a shot and Joe says...”Dammit willie, it wasn’t your turn!”
By the time I saw him, he appeared to be purple and there was another boy at the base of the tree looking up at him. My mom was driving and didn't see anything of this. I told her "mom, that boy in the tree is purple." She said it was not nice to lie.
Later she went to the store and explained to me what I saw and said sorry. It's easy to understand, and I tell her to this day I would not believe me either.
So sorry for the kid.
I've never been comfortable around electricity since then. That image is sealed in my mind forever.
Clay Electric Co-op will be changing their name to
Clay Pigeon Electric Co-op.
There is a lesson here all wannabe revolutionaries could learn when they come for the guns.
Sounds horrifying
That’s what I meant, somehow I wrote like a MSM reporter and was vague. ;)
I couldn't throw one more than about 8 and a half feet unloaded.
I’m sure some bearded savages took notice and will be talking about this real soon.
My reading comprehension has been known to be vague on FR posts as well.
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