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Registered Member #902
Joined: Sun Jul 15 2007, 08:17PM
Location: Pacific Northwest USA
Posts: 1042
it has pictures now... copper theives are idiots, plain and simple, we had some people steal the copper wiring from all four of the light poles at my school football field (all the way to the top)... but nonetheless I guess they hate dumping pennies in hydrochloric acid to free the copper from the zinc
Registered Member #1408
Joined: Fri Mar 21 2008, 03:49PM
Location: Oracle, AZ
Posts: 679
I very rarely comment on the suffering of others but this low-functioning jackass is obviously a real prize..... Watch how this gets turned around and the power company will be brought to court for not doing enough to protect the vicious energy from harming the victims of power-pole assault.
Registered Member #1497
Joined: Thu May 22 2008, 05:24AM
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 801
The problem with copper thieves is that they only get a few hundred dollars worth of copper which costs thousands of taxpayer dollars to replace, if not more.
I have -zero- sympathy for this guy and I hope as he recovers they try and convict him, just cause you botched your criminal act and nearly got yourself killed in the process doesn't let you off the hook.
Registered Member #690
Joined: Tue May 08 2007, 03:47AM
Location: New Jersey, USA
Posts: 616
This type of thing happens almost all the time now, what with rising copper prices, and people who don't realize those wires are 40 feet up for reasons other than making it harder to steal. Nobody deserves to die for it, though.
The cruelest irony, however, is when someone is killed/maimed trying to steal HV transmission lines that they assume are copper but are actually made of aluminum...
Registered Member #1497
Joined: Thu May 22 2008, 05:24AM
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 801
Shaun wrote ...
The cruelest irony, however, is when someone is killed/maimed trying to steal HV transmission lines that they assume are copper but are actually made of aluminum...
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aonomus wrote ...
The problem with copper thieves is that they only get a few hundred dollars worth of copper which costs thousands of taxpayer dollars to replace, if not more.
I have -zero- sympathy for this guy and I hope as he recovers they try and convict him, just cause you botched your criminal act and nearly got yourself killed in the process doesn't let you off the hook.
how can you say stuff like that you dont even know this man, what if he has no other way to get money and his mum is ill
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(not that i EVER will) but if i was to steal copper i would pick a air conditioning unit before the friggen distribution lines that may be aluminum. Bottom line is that he is a total idiot for doing that.
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Stupid copper thieves and HV don't mix!
