Re: Copper theft is deadly

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:27:50 +0100, Mark Rand <randm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:50:12 GMT, Gunner <gunner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:18:42 GMT, Ignoramus13752
<ignoramus13752@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am not an electrician, but I have hard times imagining someone going
to touch energized, high voltage wires, for a relatively modest
profit, with added risk of being caught. Even robbing banks seems to
offer a better risk/reward ratio nowadays.

Perhaps there is more to the story than has been said to date?

i

Sure is..not only was he a "good boy", but he was terminally stupid.

Gunner



Always did what he was told?


Mark Rand
RTFM

Perhaps. Perhaps he did it on his own. Shrug..only time and some
investigation will maybe determine the truth. Perhaps he thought the
line was dead? We had similar cases here in the oil fields over the
years, where brass and copper thefts were pretty common. One case was a
gent who pulled his van up to a manifold (collection of piping) and
started stripping valves off. He got several off, when somewhere
downstream..a timer kicked in or perhaps a float switch..and a large
pump turned on, nearly instantaneously covering him and the inside of
his van with crude oil which had been steam heated to somewhere over 280
degrees. It parboiled him inside of his own skin. Closed casket funeral.
A very nasty way to die.

Gunner



"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them;
the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."
- Proverbs 22:3
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