How NOT to collect scrap copper

[wa3zrm]

Man electrocuted after shooting down power lines with rifle

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - One Fayette County man is dead after he and an accomplice tried to steal copper wire by shooting down high-tension power lines with a rifle, authorities said.
Fayette deputies and rangers from the National Parks Service found the man's body tangled up in downed lines Wednesday morning in the Beury Mountain Wildlife Management Area near Thurmond. The apparent cause of death was electrocution.
The remote area where the body was discovered is near Babcock State Park.
Emergency dispatchers sent officers to the area after a 911 call.
The man's name has not been released, according to a statement from the sheriff's department.

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[Ansel]

serves them right.

[spirit72]

Whatever happened to the Darwin Awards, anyway?

[tattooer601]

Looks like karma ,
Strikes again.... fukn thief

[Ansel]

Looks like karma ,
Strikes again.... fukn thief

jinx! was just gonna say that

[Burnsey]

Yep, karma evens things out once again.
We have seen empty buildings stripped of copper by thieves here. They take what they can and manage a few hundred dollars in recyclable copper, while the cost of replacement and repair for the owner can run to $100k in one case.

[Frankie Reloaded]

I thought it would be difficult to hit a cable high in the air so well that it breaks... I had problems hitting a mans outline with a service-issue CZ 58

[wa3zrm]

I thought it would be difficult to hit a cable high in the air so well that it breaks... I had problems hitting a mans outline with a service-issue CZ 58

Didn't you notice they were from West "By God" Virginia?

[Zimobog]

I will never forgive West Virgina for failing to seceed from the Union. Scabby bastards. Lol

[halocog]

Didn't you notice they were from West "By God" Virginia?

Bahahahahaha!

And yeah, screw him. These pricks are ruining everything. Cell towers, tv cable, air conditioning and so on. I recall reading a story about a moron that got down in a communications manhole and cut a fibre main thinking it was copper for some reason. He cut off all communication including 911 for an entire town.