Posted on 04/17/2012 10:24:31 AM PDT by KingofZion
A suspected Southern California copper thief has been electrocuted after climbing a power pole and using bolt cutters on a live wire, which also caused a power outage. The San Bernardino County Sun ( http://bit.ly/IEc5yx) says the body of 26-year-old Robert Buchanan and bolt cutters were found early Monday at the base of a utility pole in an unincorporated area near Fontana. Nearly 3,100 Southern California Edison customers were without power for about 90 minutes. San Bernardino County sheriff's investigators say Buchanan apparently used the bolt cutters to cut live wires from the pole. A sheriff's spokeswoman says Edison wires are a frequent target of metal recyclers.
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Is this referred to as a “Buzz kill?”
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Guess so. It sure rang his bells.
LMAO! You get the best comment on thread award.
The ultimate ZOT!
Hold my Loan Star and watch this.
He was well grounded.
Did someone order their copper thief “extra crispy”? If not they are going to be disappointed.
He doubtlessly went out with a BANG!
It seems some young lady broke up with a guy, it broke his heart. The guy decided to end it all by giving a 345KV line a BJ and knocked us out. Took a couple of days to find all of the pieces.
If at first you don’t succeed, fry, fry again.
Darn, and it wasn’t even Fry-day.
What a shocking story!
His childhood dream was realized, he became a conductor.
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta says
"Don't do that"!
Arc flash that occurred when racking an industrial size circuit breaker. (The guy was not injured amazingly.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Im7PLduwc
Ok, say you’re a metal recycler and someone comes in with wires that are obviously power wires, what do you do?
Apparently, all they do is give the perp the money without asking questions. Put some cameras in these places and make the seller prove where he got the cable.
Much as I dislike adding any more power to LE, what else is there to do since they don’t fry themselves on a regular basis?
He needs to call obama.
You should see what happened to the guys trying to steal fiberoptic line!
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