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Agreed. I did a bit of googling - couldn't find any references to in the newspapers, which I'm sure would have covered it had it been genuine (1). Early manifestations had it ascribed to the west Indies rather than Jamaica. And one of the sources was on a particularly nasty site with a particularly horrible but fake picture whose details I won't go into.

(1) I did find one newspaper report of a death by electrocution of a metal thief but it was not this case and the chap was not quite that incinerated. And the guy was named.
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On 20/01/2012 18:51, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!
http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0



Judging by the dried foam on his head and the fire spread, it looks as
if these two were still alight or smouldering nicely when the emergency
services arrived.
I think it would be useful for police to consider using these images in
a warning campaign to deter metal thieves.
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On 20/01/2012 18:51, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!
http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0



Judging by the dried foam on his head and the fire spread, it looks as
if these two were still alight or smouldering nicely when the emergency
services arrived.
I think it would be useful for police to consider using these images in
a warning campaign to deter metal thieves.


Even the inhabitants of Ambridge have had problems with cable thieves.
This very week, most of the village lost its broadband and telephone
connections after "200 meters" of cable was purloined. As a result, for
several days, many were temporarily reduced to a Stone Age way of
living. However, I believe that normal service had been restored by
Friday.
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:49:46 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:

In message , Steve O
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On 20/01/2012 18:51, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!
http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0



Judging by the dried foam on his head and the fire spread, it looks as
if these two were still alight or smouldering nicely when the emergency
services arrived.
I think it would be useful for police to consider using these images in
a warning campaign to deter metal thieves.


Even the inhabitants of Ambridge have had problems with cable thieves.
This very week, most of the village lost its broadband and telephone
connections after "200 meters" of cable was purloined. As a result, for
several days, many were temporarily reduced to a Stone Age way of
living. However, I believe that normal service had been restored by
Friday.


See the "Ambridge" thread!

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In message , Bob Eager
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:49:46 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:

In message , Steve O
writes
On 20/01/2012 18:51, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!
http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0


Judging by the dried foam on his head and the fire spread, it looks as
if these two were still alight or smouldering nicely when the emergency
services arrived.
I think it would be useful for police to consider using these images in
a warning campaign to deter metal thieves.


Even the inhabitants of Ambridge have had problems with cable thieves.
This very week, most of the village lost its broadband and telephone
connections after "200 meters" of cable was purloined. As a result, for
several days, many were temporarily reduced to a Stone Age way of
living. However, I believe that normal service had been restored by
Friday.


See the "Ambridge" thread!

It's not in uk.d-i-y and legal.uk, so presumably it's in
uk.rec.gardening.
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In article ,
Steve O writes:
On 20/01/2012 18:51, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!
http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0



Judging by the dried foam on his head


Remains of their hats

and the fire spread,


Extent of the plasma arc path across the surface of the ground - a
self-sustaining fire is unlikely

it looks as
if these two were still alight or smouldering nicely when the emergency
services arrived.


They will have stood back and watched, until assured by the electric
company that the power was off, and attendance at site of electric
company personel to test it really is off.

I think it would be useful for police to consider using these images in
a warning campaign to deter metal thieves.


They never do, in case someone is offended.
You could say the same for car/motorbike crashes, etc.
It would probably help significantly if teenagers understood
how fragile their bodies are by actually seeing what happens
to bodies in a crash before they were allowed to control a
vehicle on the road, but that would be politically unacceptable,
so they are let loose at a time in their lives where they are
under a complete misapprehension of being indestructable.

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On 21/01/2012 21:49, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Steve O
writes
On 20/01/2012 18:51, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!
http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0



Judging by the dried foam on his head and the fire spread, it looks as
if these two were still alight or smouldering nicely when the
emergency services arrived.
I think it would be useful for police to consider using these images
in a warning campaign to deter metal thieves.


Even the inhabitants of Ambridge have had problems with cable thieves.
This very week, most of the village lost its broadband and telephone
connections after "200 meters" of cable was purloined. As a result, for
several days, many were temporarily reduced to a Stone Age way of
living. However, I believe that normal service had been restored by Friday.



\I have noticed a lot more power cuts than usual lately, and have been
wondering if it due to cable theft
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:22:24 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:

In message , Bob Eager
writes
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:49:46 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:

In message , Steve O
writes
On 20/01/2012 18:51, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!
http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0


Judging by the dried foam on his head and the fire spread, it looks as
if these two were still alight or smouldering nicely when the
emergency services arrived.
I think it would be useful for police to consider using these images
in a warning campaign to deter metal thieves.

Even the inhabitants of Ambridge have had problems with cable thieves.
This very week, most of the village lost its broadband and telephone
connections after "200 meters" of cable was purloined. As a result,
for several days, many were temporarily reduced to a Stone Age way of
living. However, I believe that normal service had been restored by
Friday.


See the "Ambridge" thread!

It's not in uk.d-i-y and legal.uk, so presumably it's in
uk.rec.gardening.


Sorry! Got my groups mixed up. It's in uk.telecom....



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In article ,
McKevvy writes:
On Jan 20, 6:51*pm, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0

Yup. This was posted in uk.railway a few days ago.
They don't get my sympathy.


I know it's difficult to sympathise with someone cut down by their
own criminal actions, but it's not a crime for which anyone is going
to suggest a death sentence is appropriate. So in the sense that
they didn't get a chance to serve their sentence and didn't get a
chance to go on to become reformed upright citizens, I do feel
sorry for them. Of course, I have no way of knowing if they would
have taken that chance even if it had been made available to them,
or if they would have continued to be a blight on society, or if
they've been a blight on society for some time before this.

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:58:17 -0000, Andrew Gabriel
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In article
,
McKevvy writes:
On Jan 20, 6:51 pm, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this
one!http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0

Yup. This was posted in uk.railway a few days ago.
They don't get my sympathy.


I know it's difficult to sympathise with someone cut down by their
own criminal actions, but it's not a crime for which anyone is going
to suggest a death sentence is appropriate. So in the sense that
they didn't get a chance to serve their sentence and didn't get a
chance to go on to become reformed upright citizens, I do feel
sorry for them. Of course, I have no way of knowing if they would
have taken that chance even if it had been made available to them,
or if they would have continued to be a blight on society, or if
they've been a blight on society for some time before this.


I am certainly not going to flat out disagree with your humane view. But I
do think that people who do things like this completely ignore the danger
they pose to the rest of us by their actions. The safety systems that
fail. The operations that are interrupted or deferred - and the
consequences of that.

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:17:03 -0000, Tim Streater
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In article ,
polygonum wrote:

I am certainly not going to flat out disagree with your humane view.
But I do think that people who do things like this completely ignore
the danger they pose to the rest of us by their actions.


I doubt if they ignore them. I doubt if such issues ever enter their
minds.

Probably right in many cases.

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:58:17 +0000 (UTC),
(Andrew Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
McKevvy writes:
On Jan 20, 6:51*pm, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!
http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0
Yup. This was posted in uk.railway a few days ago.
They don't get my sympathy.


I know it's difficult to sympathise with someone cut down by their
own criminal actions, but it's not a crime for which anyone is going
to suggest a death sentence is appropriate. So in the sense that
they didn't get a chance to serve their sentence and didn't get a
chance to go on to become reformed upright citizens, I do feel
sorry for them.


But their "death sentence" is self-imposed, not dished out by a court.
Numerous warning signs tell them of the dangers surrounding
electricity poles/pylons, substations and railways.

I'm afraid that I don't subscribe to the view that once you've served
a sentence you're as clean as the man next door, which effectively
"commercialises" crime by giving it a specific "price" as punishment.

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:49:46 +0000, Ian Jackson
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Even the inhabitants of Ambridge have had problems with cable thieves.
This very week, most of the village lost its broadband and telephone
connections after "200 meters" of cable was purloined. As a result, for
several days, many were temporarily reduced to a Stone Age way of
living. However, I believe that normal service had been restored by
Friday.


breathes sigh of relief
I was on my chair edge there.
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:49:46 -0000, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message , Steve O
writes
On 20/01/2012 18:51, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!
http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0



Judging by the dried foam on his head and the fire spread, it looks as
if these two were still alight or smouldering nicely when the emergency
services arrived.
I think it would be useful for police to consider using these images in
a warning campaign to deter metal thieves.


Even the inhabitants of Ambridge have had problems with cable thieves.
This very week, most of the village lost its broadband and telephone
connections after "200 meters" of cable was purloined. As a result, for
several days, many were temporarily reduced to a Stone Age way of
living. However, I believe that normal service had been restored by
Friday.


How did they broadcast the midweek episodes without power?

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:45:35 +0000, Frank Erskine wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:58:17 +0000 (UTC),
(Andrew Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
McKevvy writes:
On Jan 20, 6:51*pm, harry wrote:
Not for the faint hearted this one!
http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=8130.0
Yup. This was posted in uk.railway a few days ago.
They don't get my sympathy.


I know it's difficult to sympathise with someone cut down by their
own criminal actions, but it's not a crime for which anyone is going
to suggest a death sentence is appropriate. So in the sense that
they didn't get a chance to serve their sentence and didn't get a
chance to go on to become reformed upright citizens, I do feel
sorry for them.


But their "death sentence" is self-imposed, not dished out by a court.
Numerous warning signs tell them of the dangers surrounding
electricity poles/pylons, substations and railways.

I'm afraid that I don't subscribe to the view that once you've served
a sentence you're as clean as the man next door, which effectively
"commercialises" crime by giving it a specific "price" as punishment.


It's cheaper for us than keeping them in prison.
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