Dallas Copper Thieves

[Muck]

LA Times

The bodies of two men believed to have been electrocuted while stealing copper wiring were found early Tuesday on an abandoned driving range in Riverside County, authorities said.

San Jacinto police and county firefighters received a report of fireworks in the 900 block of Idyllwild Drive about 1:20 a.m., but instead discovered a fire near a transformer, said Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

After extinguishing the fire, which took place at what used to be San Jacinto Golf Center, officials discovered the bodies. A spokeswoman with the coroner's office said the bodies were burned beyond recognition and would possibly be identified today.

"They were attempting to remove copper wire from inside what we call a pad-mount enclosure -- it's an electrical box or structure that contains high-voltage energized equipment," said Steve Conroy, a Southern California Edison spokesman.

The fire caused a 12,000-volt line connected to the circuit to go out of service, Conroy said, and about 1,600 residences in Hemet and San Jacinto were affected by a brief power outage.

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Read the comments at topix (especially William McDonald II).

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Flame ON!!!!

USC's new gay fight song...

 

[MaliBuckeye]

USC's new, gayer fight song...

FIFY

 

[Gatorubet]

Why would anyone conduct themselves in that manner?

Perhaps they were circuit training.

 

[BUCKYLE]

Perhaps they were circuit training.

That would take a lot of energy.

 

[sepia5]

Watt happened? Must have been a re-volting picture. I'm amped to see it.

Shocking. But, I did get a charge out of the story.

Well that took some serious family Joules....I wonder how amp'ed up they were....

What a revolting development this turned out to be.

Why would anyone conduct themselves in that manner?

Perhaps they were circuit training.

That would take a lot of energy.

Somebody had better wire BB73, because this is his kind of thread. I can't believe he's not here yet. Maybe he's burnt out?

 

[Taosman]

Somebody had better wire BB73, because this is his kind of thread. I can't believe he's not here yet. Maybe he's burnt out?

You can't. All his wire was stolen!

 

[Gatorubet]

They look burned-out out to me....

 

[Taosman]

Didn't you hear. It burns from the inside out! :tongue2:


Symptoms of Electrocution


The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Electrocution includes the symptoms listed below:

• Tingling
• Pain
• Tetany
• Palpitations
• Chest pain
• Respiratory arrest
• Amnesia
• Seizures
• Altered mental state
• Coma
• Blistering
• Wounds
• Has conversations with God

 

[Best Buckeye]

Definitely not Circuit city........ any more

 

[BB73]

Somebody had better wire BB73, because this is his kind of thread. I can't believe he's not here yet. Maybe he's burnt out?

I was waiting for the link.

Ohmigod, when an item this shocking crosses the wire the pressroom is electric; there's no burnout as everybody's plugged in, and there's no news blackout in the field due to a spike of interest in current events, no marter how revolting.

Had they survived, I'm positive the DA would have hit them with a battery of amped-up charges, such as joule theft, in circuit court due to the negative publicity, but their condition was terminal. Had he been resistant to doing this, the shocked public would have given him static for ignoring criminal conduct.

 

[Best Buckeye]

Hail oh mighty lord of the dark underworld and Puns. All bow before his magnificense.
All grovel before his elitist pr ickness.

Grovel, Grovel.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzap

 

[msjosiecash]

Two kids? Actually, this was a FATHER AND SON!!!

As Neal Boortz would say, DRT!!!!!!!! (Dead Right There!!!)

 

[sepia5]

Two kids? Actually, this was a FATHER AND SON!!!

As Neal Boortz would say, DRT!!!!!!!! (Dead Right There!!!)

Interesting choice of threads in which to make your first post.