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Thread Author: Dog	Replies: 59

Mon 12 Dec 11 12:20   Copper cable thieves - Dog

This is what can happen to copper cable thieves, Beware - very graphic content YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=54615 Reply to this message | Report message       1

Mon 12 Dec 11 12:48   Copper cable thieves - R.P.

Blinking heck Dog that was graphic - put me off my toast ! The Christmas wallpaper sort of lulls you into a false sense of security. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 12:58   Copper cable thieves - rtj70

Very graphic! Poor souls. They either didn't know the risk was this high or were very desperate. In the first picture it's not even obvious there are two people lying there! Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 13:03   Copper cable thieves - Dog

I did warn y'all :( Happened in Downtown Dallas (they say) copper thieves were trying to pull a 13,200 volt live wire out of a conduit.. Note the bolt cutter and the copper wire on the ground. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 13:12   Copper cable thieves - -

Darwin awards? Do i hear the sound of out of breath compo lawyers knocking? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 13:13   Copper cable thieves - R.P.

Wonder if they were ever charged ? Many years ago I remember a kid who used to climb pylons, he got fried in much the same way - got careless I suppose. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 13:36   Copper cable thieves - Jetski

Couple of bright sparks, makes you wonder Watt on earth made them conduct themseves in such a negative manner. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 13:50   Copper cable thieves - Roger.

Sizzling beef, anyone? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 14:01   Copper cable thieves - TheManWithNoName

Not Kentucky fried then...? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 15:47   Copper cable thieves - Bigtee

Thats what should happen to rail fare dodgers & Benefit cheats, and............... Reply to this message | Report message       2

Mon 12 Dec 11 16:24   Copper cable thieves - Dog

A~mazing how y'all can make a joke of it, I'm not aving a moan or anything, and it's probably best to 'make light' of it but .. what 'shocking' images!! Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 16:30   Copper cable thieves - R.P.

It is Dog - mind you on a second look they appear to be just kids. Maybe I'm just a lilly livered liberal but no-one deserves to die like that. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 16:41   Copper cable thieves - Dog

>>Maybe I'm just a lilly livered liberal but no-one deserves to die like that.<< +1 Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 20:37   Copper cable thieves - MD

Kids should not be conceived if parent's cant support them properly including at least, basic education. Pretty much the same as saying Hot water can be hot on stupid signs in the UK now. Mess about with leccy it hurts. Water can drown you. Don't walk in front of a fast moving car etc.etc. No sympathy I am afraid. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 22:46   Copper cable thieves - CGNorwich

Mess about with leccy it hurts. Water can drown you. Don't walk in front of a fast moving car etc.etc. No sympathy I am afraid. Did you never do anything really stupid and dangerous as a kid then. No making fires or playing with fireworks or climbing dangerously high trees or building rafts or doing 101 things kids do because they take no notice of what adults say. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 22:50   Copper cable thieves - Dog

I shoved a lighted match in an empty petrol can once and ignited the vapour which almost blew my thumb orf :( Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 22:54   Copper cable thieves - MD

As usual you miss the point. Done it all matey, but with the knowledge of electricity. Try and keep up. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 22:57   Copper cable thieves - CGNorwich

Ah to be perfect Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 22:59   Copper cable thieves - Zero

>> Ah to be perfect I know its a Heavy Burden I carry daily. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 23:03   Copper cable thieves - CGNorwich

I know you're perfect Zero - never doubted it. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 22:56   Copper cable thieves - Zero

>> Did you never do anything really stupid and dangerous as a kid then. No making >> fires or playing with fireworks or climbing dangerously high trees or building rafts or doing >> 101 things kids do because they take no notice of what adults say. Set fire to things, blew things up, teased adders, dug up wild bees nests, rushed around on motorbikes at an early age, climbed trees, built rafts, jumped off house roofs into sand piles Typical kid of the 50s and 60s really. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 23:01   Copper cable thieves - CGNorwich

Did all of those things except the adders and bees nests. Did burn down the neighbours shed though. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 15 Dec 11 09:03   Copper cable thieves - Duncan

>> Wonder if they were ever charged ? What? for the electricity they used, you mean? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 16:30   Copper cable thieves - corax

>> Poor souls. . Don't you mean poor r souls... Last edited by: corax on Mon 12 Dec 11 at 16:33 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 16:38   Copper cable thieves - Zero

WOOOOOO recoils a bit. I'm with you there PU, but to be fair the after effects are worse for us, they would have not know much about it in a very short space of time. They need to stick this picture up outside every place where copper thefts could take place, Cant say they haven't been warned can they. Edit, Been doping a spot of unplanned electrical wiring today. Had I seen that I would have err thought twice. Last edited by: Zero on Mon 12 Dec 11 at 16:41 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 21:00   Copper cable thieves - Harleyman

>> They need to stick this picture up outside every place where copper thefts could take >> place, >> >> Cant say they haven't been warned can they. It wouldn't be allowed, might traumatise the poor souls. Back in my railway preservation days on GCR, late 1970's, the 11.45 from Loughborough took out a Golden Retriever whose owner had been foolish enough to let it roam on the track. The unfortunate hound was thankfully killed instantly, and basically cut into three large pieces, which we placed in a bin-bag and put in the guard's van, to be claimed by the owner when we got to Quorn station. The event was recorded for posterity by the railway's official photographer who happened to be on the train filming, and a set of the resulting stills were used for a while to show to teenagers who were caught messing about on the line; till one of 'em went home and told his mummy, resulting in the railway receiving a formal complaint that we'd upset the poor little diddums. The fact that it might have brought home to the kid the appalling consequences of playing chicken with a train went completely over the parents' heads. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 23:29   Copper cable thieves - bathtub tom

Basically the sort of stuff we were shown on my RAC/ACU motorcycle training scheme back in the '60 (one was, allegedly, the decapitated body of Jayne Mansfield). We were warned and some refused to attend, a few threw-up. I survived, albeit with interesting scars on my knees from manhole covers discovered on bends on wet roads on '60s tyres. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 00:37   Copper cable thieves - R.P.

I'm glad someone else did the RAC/ACU course, I've often wondered whether it was a figment of my imagination ! Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 08:52   Copper cable thieves - bathtub tom

>> I'm glad someone else did the RAC/ACU course, I've often wondered whether it was a >> figment of my imagination ! On my 'test' at the end of the course, the examiner pulled past and stopped me in a lay-by. He strolled back, removing his helmet. I was expecting a rollicking for something I'd done. He asked me if I'd like an ice-cream as he'd passed the van three times that morning and he couldn't resist it any more! I recall they were, justifiably, very proud of the success rate of pupils in the government riding test. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 09:54   Copper cable thieves - Cliff Pope

>> a train went >> completely over the parents' heads. >> That would teach better parenting skills :) Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 10:23   Copper cable thieves - Zero

Not sure they would be receptive to anything after that, Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 16:46   Copper cable thieves - ....

Copper theft appears to be in the media more again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-16130071 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-16125541 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 12 Dec 11 16:56   Copper cable thieves - Duncan

A waste of life - yes. Sympathy or grieving - no. That could be your grannies heart lung machine that they knock out. A member of your family could have crashed on a blacked out motorway. Your friend couldn't phone for an ambulance because the lines were down. Reply to this message | Report message       2

Mon 12 Dec 11 17:04   Copper cable thieves - Dog

This happened earlier in the year ~ www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Man-electrocuted-underground-tunnel/story-11414090-detail/story.html Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 18:53   Copper cable thieves - zookeeper

dangerous work.... could get you layed up in a hospital faraday or two Reply to this message | Report message       2

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:11   Copper cable thieves - Zero

Its a current problem. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:21   Copper cable thieves - Fullchat

Let not a few deaths amper the quest for riches :-O Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:38   Copper cable thieves - Dog

Watt is the sentence for a crime like that. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:23   Copper cable thieves - Armel Coussine

Yes. Why don't these idiots stay at ohm? Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:36   Copper cable thieves - swiss tony

I'm finding this battery of jokes, a bit of a drain - in short, I think they are generating resistance.... Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:38   Copper cable thieves - Armel Coussine

Gassing a bit st? I couldn't resist returning to the charge. Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Tue 13 Dec 11 at 19:39 Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:45   Copper cable thieves - Zero

They'l be on the prison Buss Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:47   Copper cable thieves - Armel Coussine

shackled together in parallel Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:50   Copper cable thieves - Dog

Probably friends of the earthed. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:51   Copper cable thieves - Zero

Resisting arrest? Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:52   Copper cable thieves - Zero

You lot just Pylon in. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:52   Copper cable thieves - swiss tony

Wire on earth we still doing these puns? Soon this thread will be part of a serial! There's no insulating one self from where this will lead. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:53   Copper cable thieves - Zero

yeah lets breaker it now Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:54   Copper cable thieves - swiss tony

>> yeah lets breaker it now >> NO! Im going to keep plugging on! Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:56   Copper cable thieves - corax

>> NO! >> Im going to keep plugging on! Bit negative don't you think. There's enough polarised opinions on here. Last edited by: corax on Tue 13 Dec 11 at 19:56 Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:54   Copper cable thieves - Armel Coussine

I'm still enjoying the trip. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 19:58   Copper cable thieves - R.P.

I bet that hertz....Better modulate this thread now. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 20:00   Copper cable thieves - Dog

I re fuse to start another thread like this! Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 20:02   Copper cable thieves - swiss tony

This is poles apart from other forums! Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 13 Dec 11 20:06   Copper cable thieves - Zero

>> I re fuse to start another thread like this! Its a bit of a transformer. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 13:40   Copper cable thieves - henry k

Llandough Hospital surgery suspended after cable theft www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16173948 Tracking down London's 'metal theft dealers' www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16165179 In 2009, Network Rail figures show rail operators in the South East suffered 148 hours of delays..In 2011, this had risen to 949 hours of delays Just a couple of days ago 100m of cable stolen at Twickenham causing even more train delays. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 13:40   Copper cable thieves - Robin O'Reliant

Any sympathy for the maggots who go round doing this may disappear after reading this report - www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/14/copper-thieves-halt-surgery-hospital Henry beat me by a tyre's width! Last edited by: Robin Regal on Wed 14 Dec 11 at 13:41 Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 13:58   Copper cable thieves - Dog

Yes, I heard about that on the wireless, any sympathy I may have had for the sizzled ones is starting to wane. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 18:45   Copper cable thieves - zookeeper

thats what can happen when you go Thevenin ( look it up) Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 14 Dec 11 23:33   Copper cable thieves - R.P.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16187750 Another case in Wales causing havoc - the talking head is the Chief Exec of the local health board, the same one that supported the recent public sector strike. Reply to this message | Report message