Sportdog, thanks for the details. Like I said, somehow the feeder was pulled down from the pole, and was hot.
It is worth the time to take a look at the snopes photos, one photo shows the cable in full length, you can see the three un burnt wires and a 4th wire with the insulation burned off. In fact, look at the foot of the stretched out dude in the first photo of this thread and you can also see the cable with burnt insulatioon. Looks like the dude steped on it while they were yanking cable out of the ground.
Anyway, as mentioned earlier, this is the best justice, at least they will not be thieving copper anymore!
