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TRUE Story
I used to work for a Electrical Utility Company before I quit to be a teacher. This guy used to Steal Copper from our Substations. The police were trying to catch him. One day after a trouble call one of my buddies found the gate open at a downtown substation. No one was there except there were footprints leading to a "garbage bag" laying at the foot of the barbed wire fence around the south end of the Station.
He called the police after he noticed that some of the ground wire had been stripped from the structures. As he waited for the police to arrive he walked through the snow towards the Bag when he realised it wasn't a Garbage bag at all but the charred remains of the man who had tried to steal the copper ground wire.
It turns out that as this guy was unbolting the wire from the structure above when he dropped it into a large 66 thousand Volt Transformer. He was burnt in the fireball above and then climbed down and died from exposure to the elements when he got to the fence. They figure that he was blind from the burns and since his clothes had burnt off he froze to death. It was pretty ugly... my buddy needed counselling for months afterward.
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Living on the edge of sanity
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