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Topic: Criminal Masterminds foiled by Ben Franklin (Read 1905 times)
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Franklin was the guy who invented electricity, right?FIFE - One man was killed and another hospitalized early Friday morning after trying to steal a power cable, Fife police said.
Sergeant Tony Budzius said the two men were likely hoping to sell parts of the cable as scrap metal.
The man was electrocuted about 1:30 a.m. when the two threw a rope over the raised power line and tried to pull it down.
Budzius said the pair thought the line was a low-voltage wire, but it was actually a high-voltage line. "Roughly 12,500 volts," he said.
The electricity traveled down the rope, through the men and into the ground where it sparked a fire in the dry brush. Fife police officers responding to reports of a fire in the area found the two men in the bushes.
The officers performed CPR on one man but were unable to revive him. The other man suffered electrical burns to his hands and feet and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
The fire scorched about an acre of brush and Tacoma firefighters spent two hours extinguishing hot spots.
Budzius said the police department has received numerous reports of power cable thefts in the area where the men were found on 70th Avenue East. "People are scavenging the copper wire off the railroad property," he said.
The name of the man who was killed has not been released. I think we have a Darwin Award frontrunner. My only hope is that the survivor was rendered incapable of reproduction, so his special brand of idiocy dies with him.
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Furiously
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I thought it was the amps that killed - not the volts.
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Murgos
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You don't push 12,500 volts across a couple of miles of cable without a few amps...
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Strazos
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Huh...didn't know electriicity could travel through Rope.
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Murgos
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Huh...didn't know electriicity could travel through Rope.
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Strazos
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Sorry, I don't play with power lines much, so I wasn't really aware of the conductive nature of fucking rope.
Fucktard.
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Furiously
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Isnt't it actually the slightly conductive nature of the rope that makes it to worst? I always liked taking flourscent tubes and standing under powerlines. But that could be what caused the cancer.
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Evangolis
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Insulators are just bad conductors. Put enough current behind it, and you'll get a jolt. Particularly if you coat a rope with dew, or get it wet in the rain.
I once saw people stealing parts of a fence outside a recycling center to sell at the recycling center.
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Insulators are just bad conductors. Put enough current behind it, and you'll get a jolt. Particularly if you coat a rope with dew, or get it wet in the rain.
I once saw people stealing parts of a fence outside a recycling center to sell at the recycling center.
Were they gypsies? I've seen similar, funny things. Hence my comment in this thread. |
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