Copper thief gets hit by 44,000 volts. Burn his testicles off Little Willie too.

[Will Carry]

:taser:http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/06/talladega_man_shocked_burned_a.html

Poor bugger.

Edited June 29, 2010 by Will Carry

[Rightwinger]

If they are burned off does that qualify for the "that's gonna leave a mark" or do we go with "that ain't leaving nothing!"?

[G27]

If they are burned off does that qualify for the "that's gonna leave a mark" or do we go with "that ain't leaving nothing!"?

I'm betting there's a mark...

[lock n' load]

Ouch. I guess he won't be playing "Powerball" anymore.

[kb4ns]

That's nuts!

Edited June 29, 2010 by kb4ns

[leroy]

Glad to hear it!!!!

Leroy

[vontar]

At first I thougth I might have known who it was about.

Well this person since they are alive won't qualify for the, The Darwin Awards but they might get a honorable mention since he won't be able to reproduce.

[krunchnik]

Now thats gotta sting a bit

[BigK]

He's gonna be real popular in prison. I bet his cell-mates will call him Sparky.

[Guest bkelm18]

He used to be balls to the wall. Now he's just balls on the wall.

[Guest PeaShooter]

[Il Duce]

good for him. its good he cant reproduce now and hopefully he hasnt already

[LagerHead]

He's gonna be real popular in prison. I bet his cell-mates will call him Sparky.

I'll bet they'll call him Sue.

[mikegideon]

Copper thieves die all the time from grabbing the wrong thing. I've seen pictures of charred bodies with parts missing.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Have read that lot of high-voltage wiring is big-gauge aluminum, so maybe the guy didn't even have good odds of finding much easily-detached copper in a substation? Never been in a substation, dunno whats in there that would be easy to pry off. What's he gonna do, drain those big oil-filled transformers and unwind some copper?

The article did say that alcohol may have been involved...

[mikegideon]

Have read that lot of high-voltage wiring is big-gauge aluminum, so maybe the guy didn't even have good odds of finding much easily-detached copper in a substation? Never been in a substation, dunno whats in there that would be easy to pry off. What's he gonna do, drain those big oil-filled transformers and unwind some copper?

The article did say that alcohol may have been involved...

I'm not a power transmission guy, but I think most of it is steel, especially all the tensioned stuff. The reason they use high voltage is to minimize power loss due to wire resistance. Aluminum is pretty soft. It's a much better conductor than steel, but the higher the voltage, the less it matters.

[Guest Jamie]

That's nuts!

Used'ta be....

J.

[Guest billwilly73]

I bet he doesn't have the balls to try that again!

[E4 No More]

So now he's nutless as well as witless?

[McAllyn]

That guys nuts... Grab 'm!!!

Mac

[Guest db99wj]

So he got the joules to the family jewels....

[Guest Sgt. Joe]

I dont think I want to get mine off that way.

[mikegideon]

Nuthin' better than a good old testicle thread

[monkeylizard]

The article said he walked to the ER by himself with 90% burns and his junk blown off. That's one tough dude.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

The article said he walked to the ER by himself with 90% burns and his junk blown off. That's one tough dude.

Yeah. The article said the burned-up dude would have had to climb out of that tall barbed wire fence before walking to the ER. Alcohol might have been involved.