Author Topic: Crispy Copper Thief - Warning: Graphic Pictures in Link (Read 7349 times)

280plus · « **on:** August 16, 2008, 10:50:05 AM »

Sometimes the crooks get the copper, sometimes the copper gets them. Graphic photos and surrounding website NSFW or kids etc etc...

http://www.ehowa.com/features/copperwiretheft.shtml

BridgeRunner · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2008, 10:52:19 AM »

Y'know, if anyone ever needed even more reasons not to steal stuff...

280plus · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2008, 10:56:01 AM »

I mean, how stupid do you have to be? rolleyes

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2008, 11:24:00 AM »

Was he trying to steal the copper, or wizz on it? Or something else? Or did the juice blast him right out of his pants?

But at least his death was a swift one.

280plus · « **Reply #4 on:** August 16, 2008, 12:07:36 PM »

Looks like he was trying to cut it. The pants were just plain old burned off, just like the shirt.

Tallpine · « **Reply #5 on:** August 16, 2008, 12:22:17 PM »

The last thing that went through his mind was about 50,000 volts laugh

K Frame · « **Reply #6 on:** August 16, 2008, 12:25:14 PM »

Aren't a lot of those main transmission lines aluminum?

I think that they are...

The Annoyed Man · « **Reply #7 on:** August 16, 2008, 12:27:19 PM »

I guess he didn't know about current findings - cutting off live electrical wires can prove to be a shocking experience laugh

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Boomhauer · « **Reply #8 on:** August 16, 2008, 01:30:36 PM »

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Aren't a lot of those main transmission lines aluminum?

I do believe so.

Photos like these make me extremely glad I don't work for the power company. That's sick.

Gowen · « **Reply #9 on:** August 16, 2008, 01:48:17 PM »

Regular or extra crispy?

280plus · « **Reply #10 on:** August 16, 2008, 02:06:15 PM »

I'm thinking we'll call him either "Buzz" or "Lucky".

MechAg94 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 16, 2008, 02:42:30 PM »

Not sure if those main lines are aluminum, but aluminum armored cables are not uncommon. I recall that one of our plants had them. Came in handy when liquid oxygen got dumped on some 4160 V cables.

I guess these days they could do a little cost/benefit on electrical losses versus cost of copper. Perhaps weight and allowable length of span might be in there as well. I don't know all the properties off hand.

DustinD · « **Reply #12 on:** August 16, 2008, 04:17:30 PM »

They are strands of aluminum wire surrounding a steel core that takes the structural loads, and a small amount of the electrical load.

Bigjake · « **Reply #13 on:** August 16, 2008, 04:43:29 PM »

Karma is a sumbitch.... serves him right.

Sindawe · « **Reply #14 on:** August 16, 2008, 05:27:51 PM »

One word.

BZZZZZ-ZOT!

Ok, Two words.

Schadenfreude

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 16, 2008, 07:55:56 PM »

Figures the military network blocks it as porn. rolleyes

BridgeRunner · « **Reply #16 on:** August 16, 2008, 08:06:04 PM »

Quote from: wmenorr67 on August 16, 2008, 06:55:56 PM

Figures the military network blocks it as porn. rolleyes

Well, it figures there's probably someone out there with a fetish for toasted bits.

Of course, there's probably also someone out there with a fetish for tree-climbing goats, so it doesn't follow.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #17 on:** August 16, 2008, 08:09:41 PM »

Quote from: wmenorr67 on August 16, 2008, 06:55:56 PM

Figures the military network blocks it as porn. rolleyes

Well, there is some pron on that site.

Balog · « **Reply #18 on:** August 16, 2008, 08:14:11 PM »

Quote from: BridgeWalker on August 16, 2008, 07:06:04 PM

Quote from: wmenorr67 on August 16, 2008, 06:55:56 PM

Figures the military network blocks it as porn. rolleyes

Well, it figures there's probably someone out there with a fetish for toasted bits.

Of course, there's probably also someone out there with a fetish for tree-climbing goats, so it doesn't follow.

The site the pics are hosted on have naughties, prolly not the pics themselves.

BridgeRunner · « **Reply #19 on:** August 16, 2008, 08:18:15 PM »

Oh great, so my husband is gonna want to know why I was looking at pron when he goes rummaging through the browser history? Dang.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 16, 2008, 08:20:26 PM »

So he didn't know that about you already? laugh

280plus · « **Reply #21 on:** August 17, 2008, 01:26:37 AM »

Tell him it was research. grin

RadioFreeSeaLab · « **Reply #22 on:** August 17, 2008, 06:33:35 AM »

That poor dumb bastard.

Antibubba · « **Reply #23 on:** August 17, 2008, 07:31:27 PM »

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Oh great, so my husband is gonna want to know why I was looking at pron when he goes rummaging through the browser history? Dang.

Tell him you were looking for the cable guy.

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