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Man electrocuted after shooting down power lines with rifle
DailyMail ^
| May 8, 2013
| Ashley B. Craig
Posted on 05/08/2013 10:10:30 PM PDT by Daffynition
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - One Fayette County man is dead after he and an accomplice tried to steal copper wire by shooting down high-tension power lines with a rifle, authorities said.
Fayette deputies and rangers from the National Parks Service found the man's body tangled up in downed lines Wednesday morning in the Beury Mountain Wildlife Management Area near Thurmond. The apparent cause of death was electrocution.
The remote area where the body was discovered is near Babcock State Park.
Emergency dispatchers sent officers to the area after a 911 call.
The man's name has not been released, according to a statement from the sheriff's department.
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
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Stealing copper?
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:10:44 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: GeronL
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:11:31 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Stand Your Ground)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:12:00 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Daffynition
To: GeronL
It wasn’t a *hold my beer* moment but.....
**You’ll never take me alive, copper!**
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:14:36 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Stand Your Ground)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:15:35 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: GeronL
Darwin award indeed.
Reminds me of the Gen-X/Y/Z types near where I once lived that thought they would practice rappelling and such on high voltage towers.
As you might suspect, one made it high enough to see if the towers worked like bug zappers............they did.
To: James C. Bennett
Another idiot giving lawful shooters/gun owners a bad name.
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:16:04 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Stand Your Ground)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:18:05 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: GeronL
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:18:12 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Stand Your Ground)
To: Daffynition
Reddy is not to be fooled with no matter how friendly he is made to look.
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:18:17 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Daffynition
high voltage wires,
are copper or aluminum?
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:19:07 PM PDT
by
RockyTx
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:20:11 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Paladin2
He’s not called *KILL-o-watt* fer nuthin’.
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:20:21 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Stand Your Ground)
To: RockyTx
I believe high voltage lines are aluminum. Gold and silver are also excellent conductors of electricity.
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:22:34 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: Daffynition
You’ll never take me alive, copper!
Now that’s funny
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:22:37 PM PDT
by
barmag25
To: RockyTx
I have no idea...the report says they were there to steal copper. If they were aluminum...what a surprise.
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:23:09 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Stand Your Ground)
To: GeronL
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:24:52 PM PDT
by
Psiman
(PS I am not a crackpot)
To: Daffynition
Whoops!!!
Heart stopping experience ....
Won’t be getting no moh static from him....
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posted on
05/08/2013 10:25:42 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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