Posted on 05/13/2008 10:23:44 AM PDT by kingattax
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Savannah police say a homeless man was electrocuted after apparently trying to steal copper from wires on a utility pole.
The Savannah-Chatham Metro Police say the man, whose identity was withheld until notification of relatives, fell from the pole near the Amtrak station Sunday night after he tried to cut live wires at the top.
More than 100 cases of copper theft were reported to Savannah police last year, and it continues to be a problem.
Then in my neighborhood last week, someone stole a storm drain cover. We were out giving the dog a walk and I walked right by it without looking down at it. My 6-year old son said “Dad look”, and I turned around and chills went down my spine. There was my Son inches from a 7-8 foot drop into what must of been 2 or 3 feet of rushing water in the blackness of the hole. It amazes me the stupid things people will do for a few bucks.
So true. Did somebody just say, "skin effect"?
“You’ll never take me alive, copper!”
I don’t think the economy is to the point of having to steal it from live infrastructure. He should have stuck to construction sites and abandoned buildings.
In Atlanta, we’ve been having problems with people stealing manhole covers for scrap metal.
Welcome to the Third World.
Will the sh**brained idiot’s family now sue Savanna for not posting enough warnings that the lines he was ripping off were live and could kill him; maybe for not having a very high fence around the lines?
the ‘wrongful death’ lawyers have already started lining up
He is the only one who inflicted the penalty on himself. The laws of physics can be harsh; gravity, electrical charge, objects in motion (bullets, speeding cars) etc. Not quite as stupid as the guy in the other thread who was scratching his back with a loaded pistol but real close.
We speculated that it might take 15 seconds to blunder up onto and across tracks in such a situation, taking advantage of the SUV's off-road capability, while the train was covering a quarter of a mile. Not rocket science at all.
Your tag line...lol.
There have been reports recently of a couple of houses exploding from natural gas leaks because someone broke in and stole the copper pipes. One house explosion was so strong it took 3 or 4 houses with it and damaged many others in the surrounding neighborhood. The home had been empty for about a year because the owner is in a nursing home.
Please tell me it wasn’t Aunt Sarah’s (name changed to protect the innocent) house.
Say, whatever happened to her purloined cat?
Let’s fix the first line of this story; “Savannah police say a bum was killed trying to steal copper wire”...
He died doing what he loved.
ZOT!
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