Idiots going to be idiots.
Suits me.... let them fry themselves and have their pictures on Facebook. This is better than doing the vaccine and dying slowly.
Some problems just have a way of solving themselves.
Olympics-level Darwin Award competition?
They deserve whatever befalls them.
It is called thinning the herd!!!
Trying to figure out what the harm is here? Are they damaging the towers?
Don’t pet the bison.
urbandictionary.com has a couple of rather unsavory definitions of the term “hammocking”, aside from the obvious one.
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!
Turn loose the drones!
Looks fun!
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.
Not only are they risking electrocution, but they could fall. The worst is they are very stupidly bathing themselves in harmful high power electromagnetic fields. In a few years they’ll probably have cancer.
*Darwin looks on approvingly*
I sincerely hope that they are Democratic voters because if they are Republicans then that’s two votes for the Democrats in the afterlife.
It’s always the same. Utah is where people go to pick fights with Isaac Newton. Plenty of high places to test the theory of gravity.
The first guy who did this was likely an employee who asked himself, "I've got a day and a half job out there. Do I really want to come all the way back just to have to go back out there the next morning? Sleeping in the truck is killer on my back, but why don't I just camp out overnight and finish the job in the morning? I could bring my hammock but there are no trees to tie it to. Wait a minute, I'll tie it to the girders in the tower!"
If I was camping in bear country, I would set up a hammock in a power line tower.
-I could keep all my food with me.
-I could have an unlimited night light with just a small fluorescent tube (they light up on their own under power lines).
-I could whiz right off the side instead of staggering around in the dark with the bears.
-I could also get great photos of sunset and sunrise.
DO NOT use public resources to “rescue” them. They chose to put themselves in that situation. If people want to Darwin themselves out of existence, just charge their estate for the cleanup.