Haverhill Police Believe Copper Theft Suspect Is Injured Or Dead
HAVERHILL (CBS) – Police are searching the Haverhill woods for a copper thief who may not even be alive. “Somebody was in the woods dead or injured,” says Detective Capt. Alan Ratte.
A National Grid crew went to check on a remote substation in the woods after some residents reported power outages. The crew discovered, “someone had attempted to cut a cable, a large cable, 23,000 volts. The hacksaw was found there. It’s all melted and full of soot and so forth. It looks like an explosion took place and the gate had been cut to get in there,” says Ratte.Emphasis mine. This Einstein tried to cut through an active power circuit. You know, maybe we should legalize everything. Get the idiots out and proud of their stupidity, let a massive die-off occur, and then maybe - just maybe - raise the IQ of future generations. I'm sorry, but if you're so desperate for drug money that you start cutting into a live power feed to steal the copper wire, you deserve every one of the 23,000 volts that's going to course through your body.
Here's the kicker - it was over $100 in copper from the wire. Even if these geniuses had managed to get the wire out without getting fried, they would have made more money working for a landscaper than trudging off into the woods to steal wire to sell to a scrap dealer. Two people. $50 each. And for that, one or possibly both are dead, fried like a KFC bucket, all over a hundred bucks. I'd almost feel sorry for them, except that I am firmly of the belief that stupid should hurt.
And in this case, stupid may have killed, and for once it wasn't an innocent.
That is all.
7 comments:
Those fences around substations aren't just to keep the riffraff out, they're to keep the demon in.
There's a very good chance that if Sparky there is still alive, he's blind. Faults like that like that will spatter molten metal. If you're not wearing eye protection you're out of luck. Even if you are wearing eye protection the flash can dazzle you temporarily, and you don't dare try to feel your way around to get out. That happened to a couple of guys I worked with. They were lucky that other people were around to come help them. (They also weren't dinking with 23 kV.)
The even bigger kicker is for that $100 of copper, the cost to the power company to fix it will be thousands of dollars...that ends up added right back into our electric bills.
We had a guy crisp himself about 4 miles from my house doing the very same thing.
Evolution in action.
OMG, Kevin.
It's DARWIN'S BUG ZAPPER...
Enjoy Jay.
http://www.fakeposters.com/posters/2012/06/01/bud7m6w9y8/
It's one of the most common darwin awards there is, to the point where the darwin awards site toss them as too common.
Social Darwinism, ya gotta love it.
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