Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Man dies electrocuted while stealing copper cables


Generally I don’t care about daily news, but today I’ll make an exception.
In the last days I've heard news about stolen goods, from diesel from cars to money from the kindergarten‘s Christmas tree, all of them has been a success for the thieves, except that one:






It appears to be an “usual” case of the thief that had a really bad day, but no, I have seen it on TV and I’ll explain why.

That pole is in fact an electricity pole of middle tension, let's say…between 3000V and 60000V, as you can see, it appears to be kind of dangerous and requires extreme caution and proper equipment.

Now you may ask, what equipment? I don’t know about you, but I prefer to be right in front of my computer writing and launching of that creature, but if I REALLY need to be there, at least I would wear high voltage gloves!

However not everyone thinks this way, besides he doesn’t know what are high voltage gloves, he had the courage to try to cut the cables with this:



At least someone freed him of his misery…

So what did you learned from this? I learned that if I remember to steal cables from a pole of middle or high voltage without gloves and with a garden shears, I can’t forget to bring a rope, so people will think I tried to commit suicide instead of having a death so stupid and humiliating like this.

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