Good... That's an air pressure stub phone cable that those fools were trying to steal... I've had to fix the messes that those bastards cause... I hope it hurt really bad....
13,000 volt phone line??? I don't think so.
I guess you know what a 12B-1 stub is?
No, but I know enough about electricity and electronics to know that no phone company on earth has ever used the kind of voltage it would take to do that. Clearly caused by contacting a high voltage power line.
A little searching turned up this:
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=54615It seems like many internet sensations, the original link is lost. There have been several copper thieves electrocuted in the past decade.
Jerry
