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Boy Shoots Transmission Line, Causes Power Outage
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| Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013
Posted on 01/02/2013 4:51:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Reminds me of a WILLIE AND JOE cartoon by Bill Mauldin in WWII.
The boys are shooting at insulators on a transmission line.
Willie fires a shot and Joe says...”Dammit willie, it wasn’t your turn!”
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posted on
01/02/2013 5:28:57 PM PST
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
(REOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL INSTITUTIONS! Damn the ACLU!)
To: muir_redwoods
When I was a child, my experience with high powered lines was at a distance. We were driving home, and some poor kid had been climbing a tree near the entrance to our road. He had fallen, and grabbed the power line on the way down.
By the time I saw him, he appeared to be purple and there was another boy at the base of the tree looking up at him. My mom was driving and didn't see anything of this. I told her "mom, that boy in the tree is purple." She said it was not nice to lie.
Later she went to the store and explained to me what I saw and said sorry. It's easy to understand, and I tell her to this day I would not believe me either.
So sorry for the kid.
I've never been comfortable around electricity since then. That image is sealed in my mind forever.
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posted on
01/02/2013 5:49:53 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: nickcarraway
Clay Electric Co-op will be changing their name to
Clay Pigeon Electric Co-op.
To: nickcarraway
There is a lesson here all wannabe revolutionaries could learn when they come for the guns.
To: Caipirabob
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posted on
01/02/2013 6:07:16 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: Ingtar
That’s what I meant, somehow I wrote like a MSM reporter and was vague. ;)
To: nickcarraway
A 12-year-old north Florida boy shot a high-powered rifle and hit a 69,000-volt transmission line, causing almost 6,000 customers in Lynne, Silver Springs Shores, Silver Springs and Ocklawaha to lose service for several hours. I couldn't throw one more than about 8 and a half feet unloaded.
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posted on
01/02/2013 6:32:15 PM PST
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BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: nickcarraway
I’m sure some bearded savages took notice and will be talking about this real soon.
To: Tijeras_Slim
My reading comprehension has been known to be vague on FR posts as well.
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posted on
01/02/2013 8:03:40 PM PST
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Ingtar
(Everyone complains about the weather, but only Liberals try to legislate it.)
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