I don't care WHO y'ar, that's just funny!!
Posted on 01/07/2011 5:19:03 PM PST by csvset
Thieves recently ripped off the copper wiring of a school being built in a Pittsburgh suburb.
I don't care WHO y'ar, that's just funny!!
Sadly, I don’t think there’s gonna be a Thomas Justice Freeman IV
Darwin Award nominee here!
Rarely does it work out well for the electrical wire thieves....
“As of midday Thursday, police had not charged the remaining suspects”......
The victim, however, was HIGHLY CHARGED!
Proof that being stupid can be painful.
I notice the accomplices stayed with Freeman at the hospital. Maybe there is honor among thieves.
Yep. Gulty as “charged”. Perhaps his co-defendants had a “spark” of empathy. But I feel sorry for their “current” situation.
LOL, I just used that, almost word for word, on Hubby while discussing this story. AND told him the “ohm, ohm, ohm” one. He loved that.
ZOT!
Suffolk police make arrests in catalytic converter thefts
Here's what they got for their efforts.
MAN SENTENCED IN THEFT OF CAR PARTS
A Windsor man accused last year of stealing catalytic converters from parked cars across the city was sentenced on Monday to eight years of active incarceration and 10 years of supervised probation.
David Bone, along with Nicholas Villi and Tiffany Holt, were charged with pulling up to the vehicles, getting out and snipping off the catalytic converters, a part of an auto’s emission system that contains expensive heavy metals.
Bone, 27, pleaded guilty to a total of 27 charges. He also faces eight years for stealing converters in Chesapeake.
Bone and his accomplices must pay $6,602.80 in restitution.
What a scary way to die.
Even sadder, there may already be one.
His two cohorts thought he was dumb enough to be the one to climb up there and do the cutting.
"Now Tommy, here's the plan, you climb up there with these cutters and get to cutting, we'll hold the ladder for you and act as lookouts . "
He never felt it. Roughly, going to the transformer on a backwater street, I think there’s something like 13,000 volts. More in a urban build up area. The line from your house, just a regular house, is 220, with a lot of amps, but on the other side of the can is instant easy bake.
“I notice the accomplices stayed with Freeman at the hospital....”
Wondering if one of them was still holding his beer?
“The windings in the transformers are copper. Most likely he was after the transformer, not the wire strung from pole to pole.”
I doubt it. There are copper wires still in use in some areas. You can tell by the much smaller diameter of the wire compared to aluminum cable.
A transformer will weigh at least 100 pounds or more and would be virtually impossible for a single man to disconnect and remove from a ladder. They would have just cut down the pole.
The idiot was probably told to cut the wire fast so he wouldn’t receive a shake and bake treatment. LOL
Stupid should be painful more often; we’d have less of it then.
We had a similar moron in our area stealing copper wire from the power lines. They found him dead next to his car. He apparently tied a rope to the bumper of his car and threw it up over a high voltage power line. He didn’t think there was sufficient moisture in the rope line to conduct a lethal voltage through his body.
A lot of these electrical wire thieves think the wire lower on the pole is ground!It isn't!The upper wire is usually ground for lightning protection of the system.And standard voltages of 7200 or 13000 mean you don't even have to touch it before getting charged,it will jump or arc;you can see this at night with cracked insulators or poorly grounded pole hardware.Even if the thief get hold of only the 115 line ,the ampacity of the wire means he will get more amperage and is not protected by a ground-fault-interrupter as one would be in newer construction.
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