Truly a shocking experience,.....

....creepy chit for wormholed brain meth sucking scum,.....

HA-Ha,.....

"What a rush, Mannnnn"

I love it.

GTC

Most all of the big phone cables that feed big neighborhoods and business parks are in an underground system of conduits. Most are very old and have paper insulated wires instead of plastic. There are air pumps that put pressure into the cable(about 10lbs) to keep the water from getting into the cable. That stub is an air block that keeps the air from leaving the underground cable because the cables on the poles are generally plastic insulated copper wires and don't need the air to keep the conductors dry.
When those bastards cut that cable below the stub,we lose air pressure on the cables in the underground run and things start getting wet. Once a paper insulated phone cable gets wet,it's useless and must be replaced. Miles of it. It's a huge project that takes weeks and all because a couple of jackasses want a few hundred dollars worth of copper...

adds a different meaning to "ashy".

Regular or Extra Crispy!

So do you have to ,.....like clean up messes like the one pictorially presented, Senor?

Tell me you get a bonus for so doing.

Is there not some way to turn the power back on and just burn 'em the rest of the way up, right there?

....use a dustbuster for final sano-work?

Curious minds,....

GTC

Thanks Bart. Pain in the azz thieves. I'd think the cost of fixing what the crooks do gets passed on to the consumer as a part of the rate we pay.

that there is funny...

Talk about "Hair On Fire"

those pics are GREAT !

ROTFLMAO,

GTC

More than a few years ago...I revived a young Mexican dude that was digging with a sharpshooter shovel in a trailer park in southwest Dallas. I saw that they were digging and there were no locate marks. I told his supervisor to tell them to stop digging but he didn't.
The young dude put that shovel into a buried power wire and
POP!!! That kid hit the ground like a sack of potatoes...
I did CPR and got him breathing again but I heard he died in the hospital a couple of weeks later.
Power ain't no joke...

And I'll guarantee that the bean counters at the phone company get every penny that they can from their customers...

Got what they deserved.

It makes them hot and crispy on the outside

More are out there:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/24/copper-thief-gets-business-end-of-69000-volts/

An attempted copper theft at an Eagan substation early Wednesday knocked out power for thousands of residents and sent a would-be thief to Regions Hospital.

Eagan police said the 33-year-old suspect from St. Paul suffered severe burns but was in stable condition Wednesday and is expected to survive.

Two other St. Paul residents found near the substation, a 28-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man, were arrested on suspicion of felony criminal damage to property. They were booked at the Eagan Police Department and released.

Joe Miller, a spokesman for Dakota Electric, said the injured suspect scaled a chain-link fence, cut through the barbed wire at the top and then climbed on top of a transformer, where he was injured when he came into contact with a 69,000-volt transmission line.

Witnesses reported seeing a flash of light and hearing a boom at the substation before the power went out at about 12:35 a.m. About 7,100 Dakota Electric customers in western and southwestern Eagan were without power until 3 a.m.

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http://www.azcentral.com/community/...1/20100111abrk-copper-thief-suspect.html

A man suspected of trying to steal copper from a Phoenix elementary school fell through a classroom ceiling and was found severely injured and unconscious by a teacher Monday morning, authorities said.

About 800 students at Bret R. Tarver Elementary had to be moved to another school Monday.

Police said the man, identified only as 43 years old, could have been in the school since Saturday. He was taken to a hospital with life-threatening head injuries, said Trent Crump, a spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department.

Thieves have been stealing us blind for a couple of years or so.I've found a few places where they had a near mis,but no bodies so far.We caught two of them a while back,doubt they will even go to trial.This has been a Nation wide problem,just google copper theft and see how bad it has gotten.These two guys won't be a problem anymore,looks like they have been recycled. Lightman

Too [bleep] Funny

13,000 volt phone line??? I don't think so.

I guess you know what a 12B-1 stub is?

Terry, that's Re-VOLT-ing . . . . .

You gonna answer Bart's question?

GTC

Dem boys shoulda been rolled in flour first.

That gray-taped wire with the funnel-like things on it on the left side of the picture is one of the power lines. It's probably one of three that were up the pole. It's not supposed to be laying on the ground, and that's probably why they got burned up where they did. That line doesn't show any damage other than being out of a fuseholder or transformer on the pole, but you can bet there was some sparking and arcing going on before it ended up on the ground. You'd need pictures of more of the upper part of the pole to see exactly what they got into that caused that line to be laying on the ground...and those guys will never tell.

He really needs to do something about that nose bleed.

Ya reckon they'll have an Open Coffin do for em' ?

GTC

Ziploc would be better, I bet.

Reckon they will wait 7 or more days to plantem?

Maybe about 30 like the pedophile freak?

Just finish the cremation, put em in copper urns, and be done with it.

May they roast in peace.

Prolly get a half off discount from the local crematorium.

I feel the power!

Kinda reminds me of what happens when you leave Twinkie in the deep fat fryer too long

I dont know where this happened but it didnt happen over last weekend. I received these pictures around 2 months ago from a buddy too. One thing about it, they wont be doin' that again.

DB

Well, there's TWO that saves the taxpayers a trial. And an added bonus: there won't be recidivism...

Serves 'em right..

I hope those are the same ones who stole all the copper wiring from the lights at the sports complex in McKinney.

they should have stolen a voltage tester first.

The gene pool gets a little chlorine added from time to time.

guess they should have tried a better occupation that stealing for a living.

You gonna go hang 'em from a tree, and burn a cross while you're at it?
Make it a party!

That is Little Les!

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=54615

It seems like many internet sensations, the original link is lost. There have been several copper thieves electrocuted in the past decade.

Jerry

if there was no meter on that line,they should charge the next of kin with theft of sevices for the power that killed them.

I never claimed that they were electrocuted by the phone cable,you did... I'm in the phone business Jerry...You think I might have a clue about what I see?
Do you have a clue what was in those pictures except a couple of crispy brothers?

So is the thnking one dude climbed the pole, cut the hot lines one at a time (he would have been insulated if the pole was dry and he kept away from the ground wire, sort of like the bird pearching on one wire), the multi part cable fell, then as they were trying to pull the cable out of the ground conduit, they got in contact with the hot cables?

Otherwise I am having problems knowing why the cables have a nice cut and are on the ground, looks like they were at the top of the pole at one time. The photos on snopes show the three cable ends and a fourth cable with burned off insulation. I am guessing this was an underground lead coming out of a sub and feeding a string of poles.

And from the snopes photos, it is not a phone cable, looks like black plastic semi rigid casing that melted around the guys. The melted portion looks like rubber, which it is not. The remainder of the casing looks just like the one in front of my house where a 13,900 feed comes out of the ground and goes up a pole. There is a cable at the one guys foot with the insulation burned off, my guess is he stepped on the hot cable and provided a nice ground path.

Some career paths are a dead end, others just cause job related burn out.

Alan

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I wonder what they were thinking.In Every substation that I have been in you could hear the 60cycle hum.And you can feel it in the air on humid days.Like we don't turn it off at night,man! Lightman

They were thinking about their next score of cyrstal meth I would guess. They probably couldn't distinguish between the 60 Hz hum you speak of and the hum inside their fried brains (not to be confused with the final fry seen in the photos ).

So what is a 12B-1 stub?

Some of our main trunk cables are still pressurised in that manner, as are many of the cables between the exchange and the"cab" (PCP) on the side of the road..In fact one of the first indications of a potential fault is the air pressure dropping in the cable and setting off an alarm in the exchange..The nominal voltage our system runs on is 50V DC although ringing tone represents bursts of about 120v and is more than enough to get your attention when your working at the top of a pole!

Cable theft over here is a major,major problem...I am not just talking about idiots as in the pics above, but gangs who go around posing as Contractors (including the vehicles) and set up road works ect and drag out hundreds of meters of live cable...Its just one of the reasons we are looking at replacing copper with fibre although that will take years to do..

You sound like you are in the phone business Pete...

I have a friend who works for an electricity company over here and the stories tells about this sort of thing is unreal.

For instance, in our sub stations, the high power supply has a remotely resetable "trip"..If a fault is detected, it trips the power off, but once a technician remotely tests the line and everything tests ok, they can reset the trip and restore the power...This can happen three times, and on the third time it trips, they have to leave it off and senda technician to site and to inspect the lines themselves. So the theiving scumbag Pikies who specialise in this, deliberately trip the power three times and then they know its safe to cut the cable..
Personally, I'm all for restoring the power about 20 minutes after the 3rd outage and seeing what we could catch!

I'm a retired electric utility lineman. From the pictures I would say that the two guys jerked the terminators from the bottom of the switches and didn't realize that this was a riser pole, from the sub-station step down transformer and fed up the pole to a distribution overhead line. When they jerked out the terminators after removing the stand-off brackets for what appears to be PVC conduit, resulting in a tremendous phase to ground and/or phase to phase fault that I'm sure really lit up the sky, not to mention them. I seriously doubt that the bolt cutters were used on the wire. That was the plan no doubt but the only thing they used them for was to cut the bolts on the stand-off bracket. They probably never knew what hit them. Edit: I just looked at the pictures on Snopes and they indeed did cut the wire in the terminator. They had to have had some really good insulating blankets to enable them to make that cut with that voltage. They were lucky to have got as far as they did! Our local rural electric co-op won't even let their lineman work that voltage hot even with 20K rated rubber gloves, booties and sleeves. Hot sticks only or dead and grounded.

Yeah, stuck in an office these days though, but spent a while on the repair and installation side, out in the field..Also did a bit in the Army, but that was quite primative stuff compared to civvie street....

I'm engineer for a power compny, and that's definitely a phase to ground contact of major proportions. The only phone involved in this incident was used to dailed 911.

Yeah Gringo,If any thinking was done,that was probably it.I was thinking the same thing as Sportdog about this deal,but the pictures don't show very much about the type of construction.Someone mentioned clean-up,I would guess that LE crimescene would bag them.There has been so much copper theft in the last few years,everytime I have a call in a substation I worry about finding a scene like this one. Lightman

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!

I didn't look at the snopes photos yet. I was basing my analysis on the heat shrink sleeve that's in the photos posted. It also looks like about a 900 pair cable and stub. I thought that most power lines were aluminum. I guess stealing copper and aluminum is rampant...

I have not seen anything, about this on the Dallas area news. Certainly could have missed it, though.

Just saying.

Doubleagle

Just the other day 3 losers decided to see what they could steal from a substation.The 2 saw what happened to the 3rd person when you touch really high voltage lines. I don't think they'll be climbing the fence again.