Man burned in electric pole climb

The Item ^ | 25 April 2006 | CRYSTAL OWENS

[mikrofon]

** Wayne Alert **

[pa_dweller]

Herbert Wayne Odom

Attentive freepers will note the middle name. It's a real killer.

[seawolf101]

"a man who only wanted to be identified as Odom's brother."

This is my brother Earl, and this is my other brother Earl.

[Cindy]

Ditto.

[Calvin Locke]

I think I saw on a "This Old House" show a visit to some "Habitat for Humanity" construction site. They commented on
the plastic plumbing coming out of the slab foundation. The H4H guy said they had to use non-copper, else thieves come
by and cut it off at the slab...

[aomagrat]

A Sumter Police report said officers responded to the 700 block of Broad Street to find a semi-conscious Odom trapped between two transformers.

[pa_dweller]

Odom was quoted as saying, "You coppers won't make this charge stick. I'll take this to circuit court! I'll take it all the way to DC!"

I'd gauge this as the reaction of someone who's been insulated from reality for far too long.

(added keyword "WAYNE")

[You Dirty Rats]

OK, I'll bite. What's the significance of "Wayne"?

[JDoutrider]

As a former High Voltage Distribution Lineman, please remember: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!

I'm very surprised he lived after making contact with a high voltage line. Most don't.

The voltage he contacted was most likely 7200 volts... that's a lotta juice! Remember, that's the usual voltage, per wire, you have strung on the power pole outside your house... if there is 3 wires (if 4, ones a nuetral usually strung below the 3 wires) the voltage is 12,740 volts!

Best watch out you never accidentally contact these wires while putting up an antenna, ladder,(ANYTHING!!! You might never be the same!

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

OK, I'll bite. What's the significance of "Wayne"?

Supposedly, any criminal in Texas has "Wayne" somewhere in his name.

Wayne Wayne Wayne, Jr. was kinda destined to become a serial killer.

[Who dat?]

I wish someone familiar with that type of work could provide a definitive answer, but where I’ve been remotely associated with electrical things I’ve always been under the impression that the ~0.4kV to 400 kV stuff was some sort of aluminum. ACSR was “aluminum conductor steel reinforced” and I recall seeing a lot of it. Also have seen AAC (all aluminum conductor?) and AAAC-6201(?) which was supposed to be “all aluminum alloy conductor 6200-whatever.”

I could easily be wrong - and it could also be a regional thing, I guess – but I’ve watched them tear down old lines and put up new stuff and they claimed it was all some sort of aluminum or aluminum alloy. That’s how I remember things.

[Onelifetogive]

A Sumter man was severely burned late Sunday night after he reportedly climbed an electrical pole to try and steal copper wire.

The man's lawyers are trying to decide whether to sue Thomas Edison's estate, or Francisco D'Anconia.....

[FormerACLUmember]

Nearly a candidate for a Darwin award. Mr. Darwin's observations on natural selection continue unabated. In related news, socialist Europe and democrat party blue states have native populations headed to rapid extinction, due to abortion and low birth rates.

[Publius6961]

Most people are not aware that transformers are not fused. A shot quite a distance away can cause a transformer to explode, nailing a totally innocent passerby.

"Arc flash is the official name; it is brief, intense, lethal and vaporizes metal in the process.

[pa_dweller]

News of the Weird

[Onelifetogive]

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Here, hold muh bbbzzzzzzzzzzzttttt!!!!!

[tet68]

Patterson said Odom has not been charged in the incident, but his girlfriend, Rebecca E. Greggs, 43, of 1540 N. Main St. was arrested after she reportedly told officers she dropped her boyfriend off on Broad Street and was told to come pick him back up.

She is being held at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing, a jail spokesman said Monday.


I feel like I'm missing something here.

[txroadhawg]

Patterson said Odom has not been charged in the incident...

I'd say he was very CHARGED

[RipSawyer]

Patterson said Odom has not been charged in the incident...

I'd say he was very CHARGED

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Not really, he was discharged just as fast as he was charged. The human body makes a poor capacitor.