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Posted on 05/15/2008 9:37:13 PM PDT by DemforBush

CONFLUENCE, Pa. - Two Somerset County men are charged with trying to steal live power lines that were still attached to a transformer and utility poles...

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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Watt a reVOLTing developement!


21 posted on 05/16/2008 12:15:57 AM PDT by RebelTex (MOLON LABE!)
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To: DemforBush

Shocking! They missed out on a Darwin Award!


22 posted on 05/16/2008 12:21:57 AM PDT by getarope (I don't like McCain, but I'll pick him over Shrillary or Osama Obama ANYTIME!)
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To: DemforBush
Both were charged Wednesday, but only Basinger was well enough to attend his arraignment on the attempted theft charge.

I wonder if they'll take a course in basic electricity.

23 posted on 05/16/2008 2:30:53 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: DemforBush
This is what happens to power line thieves in Alaska ...


24 posted on 05/16/2008 3:10:38 AM PDT by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: DemforBush
Say WATT?
25 posted on 05/16/2008 3:14:18 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: DemforBush

They’re lucky they didn’t get charged for a battery.


26 posted on 05/16/2008 3:15:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: DemforBush
Image hosted by Photobucket.com do I really have to say it???

27 posted on 05/16/2008 3:49:33 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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This should be in Breaking News (Current Events)

28 posted on 05/16/2008 6:01:12 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: DemforBush

We just had a Darwin winner in Lancaster County PA who tried to steal copper caternery wires from a rail line. I guess he thought that because the rails were inactive the lines would not be energized-—they were live, and now he is not.


29 posted on 05/16/2008 6:02:05 AM PDT by lightman (Waiting for Godot and searching for Avignon)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Seems this thread has a large capacitor for electrical puns.


30 posted on 05/16/2008 7:47:12 AM PDT by Rennes Templar ( Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.)
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To: JRios1968; Hegemony Cricket

I’m sure the hearing will be amplified by eletrifying testimony.


31 posted on 05/16/2008 9:11:41 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: DemforBush

Mess with the wire, get the fire. : )


32 posted on 05/16/2008 9:14:38 AM PDT by afnamvet
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To: Froufrou

It’s a shocking development...hair-raising, I tell you


33 posted on 05/16/2008 9:21:32 AM PDT by JRios1968 ("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
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To: DemforBush
Two Somerset County men are charged with trying to steal live power lines that were still attached to a transformer and utility poles...

They should ground them first....
34 posted on 05/16/2008 9:23:33 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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To: martin_fierro

lol!


35 posted on 05/16/2008 9:36:51 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Fresh Wind; The Spirit Of Allegiance

“They’re lucky they didn’t get charged for a battery.”

Anode what you mean.


36 posted on 05/16/2008 3:15:10 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ( Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.)
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To: DemforBush

Under this story, there’s one called “Half-eaten Snickers bar implicates hungry burglar”. Obvioudly, brain power is spread very thinly at the bottom of the criminals’ bell curve.


37 posted on 05/17/2008 9:48:01 PM PDT by skr (I serve a risen Savior!)
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