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Darwin Alert: Man dies hooking jumper cables to electric pole
Detroit News ^ | 2/5/02

Posted on 02/05/2002 8:48:59 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar

Edited on 05/07/2004 7:08:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

DETROIT -- Police are investigating the death of a man who was electrocuted when he attempted to illegally attach car jumper cables to an electrical transformer on a utility pole to a generator inside a vacant house where he was staying, police said.


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1 posted on 02/05/2002 8:48:59 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Shocking
2 posted on 02/05/2002 8:50:58 AM PST by aomagrat
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
There was an article posted yesterday claiming that the evolutionary process of natural selection is finished for the human species.

I think this article shows us that the process is still going on.

3 posted on 02/05/2002 8:51:21 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
< Jim Cary voice > Smok'in! </Jim Cary voice>
4 posted on 02/05/2002 8:52:43 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Are not car jumper cables designed to host direct current? The last I heard, the Mr. Tesla had convinced all the utilities to push alternating current.
5 posted on 02/05/2002 8:54:04 AM PST by SlickWillard
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
What a loss. He had such a sparkling personality.
6 posted on 02/05/2002 8:54:15 AM PST by ladtx
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Inside the vacant home was a generator, a mattress, blankets and several cans of soup.

C'mon folks, let's accentuate the positive! Did the soup get hot?

7 posted on 02/05/2002 8:56:21 AM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: SlickWillard
The wires don't care if it's AC or DC.
8 posted on 02/05/2002 8:58:26 AM PST by boomop1
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Or one could argue the evolution process has, in fact, reversed.
9 posted on 02/05/2002 8:58:30 AM PST by steve50
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Outstanding Darwin Award nominee--and it's only the 5th of Bebruary!
10 posted on 02/05/2002 8:59:42 AM PST by Spook86
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Unfortunately, this Darwin Alert comes too late...the man was 51 years old and had probably already passed on his defective genes to progeny. Much better for the gene pool when a 12 year old does it.

Meanwhile, everybody be on the alert for this man's progeny...not the best kids to "hang with".
11 posted on 02/05/2002 9:01:02 AM PST by CharlieDarwin
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To: SlickWillard
Are not car jumper cables designed to host direct current?

DC vs AC isn't the problem.

The problem is that car jumper cables are designed around 12 volts and high amperage. If he hooked on to the wrong spots, he would be tapped into several thousand volts. The insulation on the clamps wouldn't even be (safely) sufficient for household voltages.

12 posted on 02/05/2002 9:01:22 AM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
There was an incident in San Fran about five years ago...a homeless man was walking on the BART right-of-way when he answered nature's call...and urinated on the third rail.

The police were baffled by a dead man with an open fly and severely burned genitals lying next to the tracks...

13 posted on 02/05/2002 9:03:37 AM PST by Poohbah
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To: SlickWillard
Tesla was the one pushing DC. He lost that battle and the electric companies went with AC, which was pushed by Edison.

And, yeah, the wires don't really matter. This guy was just playing with the wrong wiring in the head.

14 posted on 02/05/2002 9:04:05 AM PST by SpottedBeaver
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To: SlickWillard
Are not car jumper cables designed to host direct current?

It sounds like this moron was hooking up to the primary of said electrical transformer on a utility pole -

- the primary lines feeding the local step-down transformers normally carry enough voltage to 'punch through' the minimal insulation on the handles/clips of most jumper cables ...

15 posted on 02/05/2002 9:06:27 AM PST by _Jim
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To: steve50
That would be "devolution". As in "Are We Not Men? We are DEVO. D-E-V-O." Some of the best advertising geniuses to hit rock-n-roll.
17 posted on 02/05/2002 9:07:13 AM PST by FreedomPoster
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To: SpottedBeaver
Tesla was the one pushing DC. He lost that battle and the electric companies went with AC, which was pushed by Edison.

Just the opposite, in fact. Edison thought that AC was useless. Tesla demonstrated otherwise.

18 posted on 02/05/2002 9:08:16 AM PST by r9etb
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To: SpottedBeaver
Sorry, you've got it backwards.
19 posted on 02/05/2002 9:08:22 AM PST by Iris7
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To: SpottedBeaver
Tesla was the one pushing DC.

Actually, I think you are thinking of the big fracas between Edison and Westinghouse, not Tesla. I don't think Tesla was in that fight, or if so, not till later.

20 posted on 02/05/2002 9:09:21 AM PST by Ramius
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