‘This is not the way to go.’ Two intruders incinerated by 24,000 volts, police say

Star-Telegram ^ | December 29, 2017 | Don Sweeney

[artichokegrower]

A Detroit utility worker responding to a reported power outage early Friday at a city lighting substation found a door to the building had been pried open.

Then he found something much worse – the bodies of two men electrocuted by 24,000 volts after touching a transformer, reported WDIV. The bodies had been fused together.

[bar sin·is·ter]

*groan...

[lurk]

Thanks for the current news.

There always was a certain electricity between the two mates. But then one day, they just had a meltdown and things changed forever.

[jy8z]

They would never be inducted into a hall of fame

I think it would be more like a hall of flame.

[smokingfrog]

There’s nothing punny about this.

[VRWCarea51]

R1 and R2 should be LEDs with very short life span.

[NRx]

Justice: Regular, or extra crispy?

[kanawa]

[The Great RJ]

Had an incident years ago in Des MoinesIA. Two teens got through a chain link fence and were shooting their 22 rifle nto the shutered ventilation windows of a dynamite bunker. The bunker detonated and the only remanants were the tattered jeans of one of the victims

[21twelve]

A new season of The X-Files is on next week. This almost sounds like something from one of their old episodes.

“Mulder - it’s just two thieves trying to steal copper!”

“But this is the third incident in as many weeks. Hey - what’s this yellow stuff sticking to the ceiling?!”

[P.O.E.]

[catnipman]

note to self: turn off power BEFORE stealing copper wire ...

[Eddie01]

The human body hand to foot is 400 - 600 ohms

24,000 VAC / 600 Ohms = 400 Amps

Slow blow fuse.

[sageburn]

Ohm my goodness!!!

[Delta 21]

Double zot zot.

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?

[SoFloFreeper]

Happens all the time. People think they are entitled to money because they do dumb stuff and kill themselves. Here is what happened in Miami: Family of electrocuted teen sues FPL for more than $15,000

Uh huh. Kid climbed over a fence that had signs on it telling people to stay away. Kid was 17. He was literate.

[Bonemaker]

Probably looked like this. Flunked electronics class at the government hood school.

[awelliott]

Should be posted in current events.

Post of the month! I'll be suing you for the loss of my keyboard!

[TianaHighrider]

Smarty*

[Dalberg-Acton]

Lol!

[bunkerhill7]

They found their car parked nearby- A Tesla.