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Florida Looters Caught Stealing POWER POLE in Jacksonville as 3 Million Struggle Without Electricity
Daily Mail UK ^ | 9/14/2017 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 09/14/2017 6:10:08 AM PDT by sevinufnine

Two looters were stopped by Jacksonville police while attempting to steal a power pole in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The highly conspicuous thieves were caught red-handed with the pole on top of their SUV. The looters also attached a flag, made of what appears to be t-shirts, to the back of the pole for safety. It is not clear what they intended to use to pole for. Twitter users noted they would have struggled to sell it for recycling considering it is obviously a stolen power pole.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: crime; irma
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1 posted on 09/14/2017 6:10:09 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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To: sevinufnine

Couldn’t resist posting this. Humanity never ceases to amaze me.....


2 posted on 09/14/2017 6:11:45 AM PDT by sevinufnine (.)
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To: sevinufnine

Looters gotta loot, and they couldn't find anything better to steal.

3 posted on 09/14/2017 6:13:35 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

Beer looters. Who’d a thought?


4 posted on 09/14/2017 6:15:22 AM PDT by sevinufnine (.)
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To: sevinufnine

More like a light pole made of Al.


5 posted on 09/14/2017 6:17:56 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: sevinufnine

Something tells me the number of posts screaming about looting on FR will be far shorter on this one.


6 posted on 09/14/2017 6:19:31 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: sevinufnine

Selling power poles or anything else metal is easy at many scrap yards. If it is recognizable it goes to the compactor immediately.


7 posted on 09/14/2017 6:21:02 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: VanDeKoik

Yup. And if there was no picture posted, there would have been a lot of “do I even have to guess?” comments as well.


8 posted on 09/14/2017 6:22:51 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: VanDeKoik

True, no screaming. Was hoping gut wrenching laughter though....


9 posted on 09/14/2017 6:22:52 AM PDT by sevinufnine (.)
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To: sevinufnine
The looters also attached a flag, made of what appears to be t-shirts, to the back of the pole for safety

LOL nice touch. Wouldn't want to make an amateur mistake like forgetting the caution flag when you're driving your SUV down the street with what's very obviously a power company's utility pole.

10 posted on 09/14/2017 6:23:28 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: sevinufnine

I think you’re three Florida hurricanes behind.


11 posted on 09/14/2017 6:24:40 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: arthurus

The scrap yards in Jacksonville are pretty scrupulous about buying things that might belong to the power company. They’ve dropped a dime quite a few times on people.


12 posted on 09/14/2017 6:26:01 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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Thinking they figured since it was already on the ground, it was fair game. Closest thing I’ve seen to this was a guy riding down the road on a scooter somehow managing FOUR 2x4x8 wooden boards. I took a photo, but not sure how I’d post it here. Traffic was crawling due to drivers wanting to watch that....


13 posted on 09/14/2017 6:26:08 AM PDT by sevinufnine (.)
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To: Bryanw92

The one here used to but has a different rep now.


14 posted on 09/14/2017 6:26:56 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: sevinufnine

Looters should be shot or hung if apprehended at the scene of the crime. It’s an entirely different scenario in a life or death emergency/societal crisis situationm akin to martial law. They are animals - nothing but animals. Yes, I saw the photo. Hang them.


15 posted on 09/14/2017 6:29:30 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: thefactor

The reason there are so many such comments is because we often don’t have to guess.

A lot of us study patterns and history.

I didn’t realize that made us stick out so.


16 posted on 09/14/2017 6:30:17 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: sevinufnine

Cultural appropriation. We must not stand for these aggressions! s/


17 posted on 09/14/2017 6:30:24 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: sevinufnine

Perhaps they thought they would never have to pay for electricity again.


18 posted on 09/14/2017 6:31:13 AM PDT by posterchild (Science makes the Dr. see what is not, and prevents him from seeing what is clear to everyone else)
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To: sevinufnine

Shoot them dead.


19 posted on 09/14/2017 6:32:17 AM PDT by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: VanDeKoik

“Something tells me the number of posts screaming about looting on FR will be far shorter on this one.”

These gentlemen probably found this pole in the street and loaded it to prevent somebody from running into it and causing an accident.

They were on their way to the closest utility yard to return it when they were stopped by the police.

It could have happened that way.


20 posted on 09/14/2017 6:34:41 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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