Utah Authorities Concerned About People Hammocking Atop Power Line

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[Fai Mao]

Idiots going to be idiots.

[rovenstinez]

Suits me.... let them fry themselves and have their pictures on Facebook. This is better than doing the vaccine and dying slowly.

[Billthedrill]

Some problems just have a way of solving themselves.

[larrytown]

Olympics-level Darwin Award competition?

[bgill]

They deserve whatever befalls them.

[Kevmo]

The additional problem seems to be that sheriffs have far too much time on their hands if they’re trying to keep idiots from bein’ idiots.

[tallyhoe]

It is called thinning the herd!!!

[Billthedrill]

Somebody has to clean up the mess, I guess.

[Rurudyne]

Reminds me of those shows or YouTube channels where we get treated to example after example of why men live shorter lives than women.

[Dead Corpse]

Trying to figure out what the harm is here? Are they damaging the towers?

[Kevmo]

Josie Wales: Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.

[the_individual2014]

This is worse than Grizzly man, and that guy won the Darwin award for sure.

[kiryandil]

Don’t pet the bison.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

urbandictionary.com has a couple of rather unsavory definitions of the term “hammocking”, aside from the obvious one.

[NonValueAdded]

I once saw a turkey vulture make a mis-step on top of a telephone pole. Big bright flash and it split him in two. And that was just regular electric service.

Charlie Darwin, please pick up the PG&E courtesy line!

Danny: Try not to scrape the third rail, okay? There’s about 600 volts in there.
Ray: It’s not the voltage that gets you. It’s the amps.
Nun: How many amps are there?
Ray: Enough to push a train, and shut up!

[blueunicorn6]

Turn loose the drones!

[Magnum44]

[Sirius Lee]

Looks fun!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The idiots who do stuff like this can and should find ways to kill or harm themselves that don’t cause power outages for others.