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(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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Metal theft. The biters bit
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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Metal theft. The biters bit
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. -- Ian |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
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! -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
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. -- Ian |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
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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. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
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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Metal theft. The biters bit
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.... -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
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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. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:58:17 -0000, 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. 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. -- Rod |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:17:03 -0000, Tim Streater
wrote: 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. -- Rod |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:49:46 +0000, Ian Jackson
wrote: 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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Metal theft. The biters bit
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? -- Rod |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
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. -- Peter. The gods will stay away whilst religions hold sway |
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