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Here's a safety tip: if you're going to try to steal copper wiring to sell to a recycling center, make damned sure it's not live.
Otherwise, you might end up like these two guys.
This is especially embarassing for me. The would-be thieves were from New Hampshire, but they got their comeuppance in Massachusetts.
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Comments (20)
Darwinism in action. Look ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by philw | March 30, 2007 11:18 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Darwinism in action. Look at it this way, those 2 potential voters are now eliminated from NH's voting rolls.
MA needs to stop killing our NH residents!
1. Posted by philw | March 30, 2007 11:18 AM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 11:18
2. Posted by Bruce | March 30, 2007 11:19 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The cumulative IQ of New Hampshire just got a little bit higher.
2. Posted by Bruce | March 30, 2007 11:19 AM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 11:19
3. Posted by Eneils Bailey | March 30, 2007 11:43 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I take it these nuts were not electrical engineers.
Doesn't electricity take the path of least resistance, therefore proving stupidity is a good conductor.
3. Posted by Eneils Bailey | March 30, 2007 11:43 AM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 11:43
4. Posted by Heralder | March 30, 2007 11:43 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Live Free or Die...of electrocution.
4. Posted by Heralder | March 30, 2007 11:43 AM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 11:43
5. Posted by metprof | March 30, 2007 11:53 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
See, evil capitalism KILLED THESE POOR MEN. They had been exploited by the ChenyHalliburtonBigOil cartel. They hadn't the opportunity that the Chimp had to go to Yale and dodge Vietnam cuz of his daddy. More education funding would have kept them from electrocution. Katrina and the govt poor response deeply scarred them.If only..., IF ONLY the capitalist conservative power brokers had CARED..............
5. Posted by metprof | March 30, 2007 11:53 AM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 11:53
6. Posted by Mike | March 30, 2007 11:58 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I think a Darwin Award has already been given out to someone else who died in exactly the same way.
6. Posted by Mike | March 30, 2007 11:58 AM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 11:58
7. Posted by Eneils Bailey | March 30, 2007 12:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
metprof,
I agree with you.
You make perfect sense. If you are posting on KOS, Dem underground, or the Huffington.
Poor guys, if only we had a copper subsidy.
It is a Karl Rove plot, to make it harder for thieves to make a living.
7. Posted by Eneils Bailey | March 30, 2007 12:08 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 12:08
8. Posted by Mike | March 30, 2007 12:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Can't be a Karl Rove plot. Nobody in the administration remembers anything. Hell, Sampson said 122 times he couldn't recall. The whole justice dept. has fuzzy memory, same as the White House, so if you can't remember, how could it be a KKarl plot?
8. Posted by Mike | March 30, 2007 12:40 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 12:40
9. Posted by WildWillie | March 30, 2007 12:48 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I wouldn't remember anything either for the scum oozing out of the dimmer senators pores? ww
9. Posted by WildWillie | March 30, 2007 12:48 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 12:48
10. Posted by Scrapiron | March 30, 2007 12:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Mike , "I don't remember" is a learned action from the Slick Willie administration. They said it thousands of times when questioned under oath. Don't blame those today that see it as a 100% sure out when being questioned by idiots. If it works, why change? By the way your BDS is showing and most of the reservations in the rubber room motel are gone. Better check in quick. Algore-abge just made his reservation. Now to find a wimp to go pick him up. Anyone got a butterfly net and a coat with many straps?
10. Posted by Scrapiron | March 30, 2007 12:49 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 12:49
11. Posted by JohnAnnArbor | March 30, 2007 12:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I have read this is not uncommon in Russia. Cable-stealing is rampant to the point of really messing up the grid, and occasional electrocutions are part of it.
11. Posted by JohnAnnArbor | March 30, 2007 12:54 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 12:54
12. Posted by metprof | March 30, 2007 1:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Sorry folks, I forgot about Rove's involvement in these elctrocutions. I DID hear that Waxman is soon starting hearings on what Rove knew, and when he knew it. He'll be hiring outside attorneys due to the increased workload.
12. Posted by metprof | March 30, 2007 1:08 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 13:08
13. Posted by metprof | March 30, 2007 1:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Of course another possibility is that these fine americans were really trying to steal electricity, not the copper. They could have been stealing power to store in their garages for use in their air conditioners as the globe heats up. Just a thought.
13. Posted by metprof | March 30, 2007 1:11 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 13:11
14. Posted by jhow66 | March 30, 2007 1:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You might say that that had to be a "hair razeing experance". Picture this: Waxman on a platter with an apple in his mouth after doing the dumb crook thing.
14. Posted by jhow66 | March 30, 2007 1:41 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 13:41
15. Posted by Tim in PA | March 30, 2007 2:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This happened down here a few months ago; I work as a guard,and we were sent there after the incident. They had discontinued security when the plant sold, so the local ghetto swarmed in and stripped the place bare. They even, no shit, stole parts of the roof; the building looked like a total loss to me.
What really blew my mind is that buddies of the guy - the other looters - showed up a week later wanting to put a cross on the property, and got downright indignant when we wouldn't let them in. Another pair showed up asking if they could go in and get their wheelbarrow, wire cutters, and pipe cutters they'd left on the site when they fled (the night the guy got fried). These people just don't get it.
15. Posted by Tim in PA | March 30, 2007 2:01 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 14:01
16. Posted by ExRat | March 30, 2007 5:34 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The real shame is that the families of the deceased criminal trespassers will probably be successful in a wrongful death lawsuit against the owners of the property and any other possible defendants with insurance.
16. Posted by ExRat | March 30, 2007 5:34 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 17:34
17. Posted by suhnami | March 30, 2007 11:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
shocking
17. Posted by suhnami | March 30, 2007 11:14 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 23:14
18. Posted by spurwing plover | March 30, 2007 11:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Worlds dumbist crooks tries to rob store with switchblade store owner has 45 automatic
18. Posted by spurwing plover | March 30, 2007 11:29 PM |
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Posted on March 30, 2007 23:29
19. Posted by nabila | March 31, 2007 5:13 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
My God.................
so terrible
19. Posted by nabila | March 31, 2007 5:13 AM |
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Posted on March 31, 2007 05:13
20. Posted by kim | April 1, 2007 10:38 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh, not so terrible; they've insight into background microwave polarity now, that neither you nor I do.
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20. Posted by kim | April 1, 2007 10:38 AM |
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Posted on April 1, 2007 10:38