What a revolting story
 

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/24/...ex.html?hpt=T2

Man electrocuted in botched copper wire theft, police say


Am I a terrible person if I immediately thought of a pun about a "hot" wire?


What is truly tragic is that this couple's kids may have seen it. That would stynk. :nope:

I don't know weather to laugh or to cry

Myself, I was laughing.

I have no sympathy for thieves.

Ditto, serves them right. We got this happening to over here, but they steal from anything from homes, to sub-stations, and even take copper wiring from railway points causing massive disruption.

Same here, but it has chilled down a little since the prices for metal went down.
Causing delays because some arses stole the wires from the railway can be annoying, but here they stole a playground slide this year. C'mon, how cruel can you be? Heartless bastards!

Ditto.

Morons.

Its their own tuff chit

I do believe they did :yep:

Bzzzzzzzzzzt!

(wrong answer)


:D

http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/electricf.gif

I hope the copper is okay. :hmmm:

Quite a few of the delays here in Sydney on the rail network are due to these thefts. Power companies, Telstra (Australia's telecom), railways and electricians have reported increases in copper thefts, in particular when copper prices spike.

Telstra has had phone exchanges ripped apart by people taking the copper. It might be only worth $75,000 but they can do over $1,500,000 worth of damage....:stare::stare::stare::stare:

I'll bet a diet dr pepper they were methheads.

Fitting end:woot:

:har::woot:

You are worse than you realize... you didn't see the "ReVOLTing story" pun... :03:

:O:

+1

good riddance

HunterICX

I am currently designing the remodel of some "affordible apartments". There two story buildings with about 50 units in each building.

We informed the owner (the city) that new feeders would have to be pulled to new panels in each unit.

We were told not to worry about that as all of the copper had been pulled out long ago :o and not by the city.

The main feeders were still there (1,000 amps worth) only because they were aluminum.

The storys I could tell about this little project could make your head spin but I'm not really at liberty to divulge.

Need to up the voltage..... that will stop them!:03:

Well they obviously knew enough to pull the meters before pulling the conductors so 'upping the voltage' wouldent accomplish much.

But I have heard storys about some of these bozos getting into a transmission yard and supprise supprise thats 12,470 volts *POOF*

I once received a shock in excess of 30,000 volts and survived with minor shock and no injury at all. I hooked up a timing light to my car incorrectly. Lots of voltage, current nil. My arm snapped back of it's own accord, hard enough to throw the light about twenty feet.

My arm was sore for a couple of minutes. Lucky me. :D

Current nil.... thats what saved your life my friend. That and it was DC.

If there had been any available current to speak of you would be a lump of coal right now.

Here is what you can get with a little potential behind it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMbN9nb3qyk

Keep in mind that is more or less perfectly normal :o