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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Savannah police say a homeless man was electrocuted after apparently trying to steal copper from wires on a utility pole. The Savannah-Chatham Metro Police say the man, whose identity was withheld until notification of relatives, fell from the pole near the Amtrak station Sunday night after he tried to cut live wires at the top. More than 100 cases of copper theft were reported to Savannah police last year, and it continues to be a problem.

Saturday February 12, 01:26 PM 'You picked the wrong man' A young punk who tried to mug an 88-year-old picked the wrong man -- his intended victim turned out to be a former boxing champion who knocked the attacker out cold. "I was visiting a friend's grave when a young, long-haired man came up to me and demanded I hand over my money," said granddad Gerhard Brinkmann of Halberstadt, Germany, who was the country's top lightweight boxer in 1936. "I told him to come closer if he wanted it and, as he did, I landed a full-force right hook on...

<p>March 5, 2004 -- A gun-wielding robber got his comeuppance from one of his victims last night - a federal agent who gunned him down during a robbery attempt on the Lower East Side, cops said. The unidentified agent was confronted by the robber on the first floor of an Avenue D building around 11:30 p.m.</p>