My vote for this years Darwin award, goes to...

obieone
obieone Posts: 5,077
edited September 2011 in The Clubhouse
If you steal copper wire and tubing from an abandoned bldg., you're a loser.
If you steal an A/C condensor, releasing all that R22 into the atmoshphere, you're an even BIGGER loser.

But, if you try to steal copper wire from a LIVE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION, congrat's, you've reached the top of the dumb-**** food chain!
When something with no moving parts, hums, and generates heat, that's a big frikkin hint to stay away!


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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,395
    edited July 2011
    agreed...
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  • aviator
    aviator Posts: 159
    edited July 2011
    Justice delivered on the spot.
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  • ysss
    ysss Posts: 213
    edited July 2011
    Hums?

    Perhaps he's just trying to help the facility by isolating ground noise off it...
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited July 2011
    "fire and water do not mix"

    interesting...
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited July 2011
    exalted512 wrote: »
    "fire and water do not mix"

    interesting...
    -Cody

    True, but I hope they meant electricity and water do not mix.



    "Firefighters had to wait for a Duke Energy crew to arrive and turn off the power.

    "As you know, fire and water do not mix," Caggiano said."
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,411
    edited July 2011
    I work in the substation business, got an email full of photos of a pair of would be theives that did not make it after trying to steal copper from a live substation, weird to see charcoal in the shaped like a man
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2011
    pic's please :smile:
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited July 2011
    They probably had to clean the guy up with a sponge...note to self, sub-stations have lots of sparky stuff.
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited July 2011
    obieone wrote: »
    ...
    When something with no moving parts, hums, and generates heat, that's a big frikkin hint to stay away!...

    Heck, I'd go as far to say that even if it does have moving parts, it's probably best to give it a wide berth if it's large and humming and generating heat...
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  • mudwrx
    mudwrx Posts: 367
    edited July 2011
    Stupid people will find a way to eliminate themselves from the equation...
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited July 2011
    I give the guy credit. At least he went out with a bang.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited July 2011
    Here in Chicago, for years we've had problems with thieves, still do. They take off the access plate on the back of light poles and rip out the wires. Take manhole covers off of sewers, so your driving down the street and boom. When it comes to stealing something of worth, these guys can be very creative, wish they put that creativity into a job though. They have even ripped out wiring harnesses on construction machines. We even had to pay a gang leader once to ensure the safety of our equipment left overnight.
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited July 2011
    He wasn't trying to steal anything. It was just a fed up audiophile trying to chase his ground loop problems down to the source.
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  • ysss
    ysss Posts: 213
    edited July 2011
    mudwrx wrote: »
    Stupid people will find a way to eliminate themselves from the equation...

    Unfortunately, natural selection has also imbued them with a special skill too: breed early, breed often.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited September 2011
    And the 1st runner up, to this years Darwin award goes to....

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/father-daughter-burns.html

    "Life's hard. It's harder when your stupid"- John Wayne
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  • codyc1ark
    codyc1ark Posts: 2,532
    edited September 2011
    Go figure, this had to happen here in NC.
    tonyb wrote: »
    We even had to pay a gang leader once to ensure the safety of our equipment left overnight.

    That's gangster if I've ever heard of gangster!

    When I worked in Chicago(Wheeling) we had to back up all of our trailers in a Tetris like grouping to make sure they couldn't get into them. After that they just cut holes in the top to get into them. :eek:
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