Copper Thieves in action

Here's a picture of copper thieves in South Carolina. The aftermath was too graphic to post. If anyone wants a copy of the email, post your email address. Hal

Hal
I guess some people just aren't that bright,or are they in the next set of pictures?
Vito

You got my E-mail send then to me


John

See you did already LOL

try posting some real pics and not something that has been going around the internet for months and a known fake.

I think we're been scoped out here. The other day there was some truck out at the road pointed towards us. I thought they may be having car problems and walked out there. I was 15-20 feet away and he gunned it. The next morning at 8 or so some white car flew through our (U shaped) driveway. I diddnt make it out to the driveway, so they diddnt see me. Blue car did the same thing later on. I was in the shop with the doors closed, and only saw them driveing away.

The next morning the blue car came back. I had left the tractor in the other part of the driveway where it couldnt be seen from the other side of the house. The lady stopped real sharp and i came out of the house. She was kind of supprised because the barns were all closed up, and there were no cars in the driveway.

She claimed to be here wanting to buy eggs, so i got a dozen out of the house and sold them to her. I started a conversation with her and pointed out he had only lived here a few years. I also said that since things began disipering in the area we set up a couple motion activated hunting cameras near the house and the barns. I said they get alot of use, mostally of the dog or the neighbors dog, but we've gotten some cars in here that diddnt even stop. I said someone was in a car just like this one the other day, and some white car flew through here as well. I said the cameras work really well, we got a good picture of the driver in the white car, and a desription of and the plate numbers of both cars. If either one comes back we're going to call them in like i did the truck. I pointed out the problem was i knew of 3 cars just like hers, a light blue hatchback. They are common here just like silver trailblazers. She looked very suprised. She was driving this same car the day before. I saw her and the other car, but neither saw me. In all 3 instances the cars were going WAY to fast to have intentions of stopping here. She would have gone straight through like she had the day before if there werent a tractor in the way.

i do not think we'll be seeing her agian.

Locally there are three who have just been sentenced - they were stealing copper and aluminum from center picot irrigation systems in the wee hours. Seems the police were looking for them, and actually caught them red handed... Had a battery swiped from my tractor in the yard less than 100 feet from my house last fall. So, yeah..... they're out there!

A friend of mine sent me some pics of the results of a copper theif cutting a high tension wire.
It is NOT for the faint of heart.
Electrocution

He is DEAD, Jim!

So far we have been real lucky here (don't ask) you can leave tractors out on the road for days and come back and find them just as you left them.
Walt

Some of these thieves are pretty creative. I was on a ship that pulled into the Oakland army base in the 70's. The ship was being layed up so there were only 5 of us left on board to get it ready for the boneyard.

3 of the guys had cars parked way out at the end of the pier out of sight of the ship. One guy found that his battery cables & bracket had been cut and the battery was gone. Rent a cop security arrived and checked the other 2 cars, same thing.

One day a couple weeks later the new battery out of 2 of the 3 cars was missing. An old rent a cop shows up and said it's obvious. They probably cut the old batteries loose and threw them in the water. They want new batteries that are quick & easy to remove. New cables & brackets are easy and they don't risk getting stopped in a spot search having a bolt cutter in their vehicle with the stolen batteries.

Joe

That's gay and retarded.

Are you saying that one guy was killed by electocution?

He looks like he was fried. Hal

Only shows the deceased. Hal

You can see why I didn't post all the pics. Hal

A friend spent his entire life working for the electrical company. Followed all the safety rules, went to all the updated training, but one day simply made the mistake to turning around without thinking. It was a fatal error. As the pictures in the link so graphically show, high power electrical wires can be very dangerous.

What I don't get is, where is the copper, most of these high voltage conductor, well at least transmission lines are aluminum. He must have been after a feeder or something, just makes no sense.

Graphic or not, this guy made a terrible mistake, but I can tell you, I'd be the first one to exhibit those photos to anyone who had doubts, my father showed me what was left of a kid who climbed a high tension tower, nothing but the rubber soles of his sneakers, I never forgot it, grpahic, but as a young kid, I'd do the same, too many kids are sheltered today, sometimes this is what it takes to learn em so it sticks.

Why don't you post some.

Yeah, I had gypsies stop here selling steak one day...

I only made quick errands for the next few days. Fortunately, I work from home most days.

See the link.

Sounds like a TFBUNDY -- Totally F'ed, But Unfortunately Not Dead Yet with 2 rounds of 7,000volts and 50% 3rd degree burns.
http://firegeezer.com/2008/08/02/sizzlezap ka boom/

Around here people were going around digging up all the original survey markers (bronze). The county (or maybe state) had to go around and dig all the remaining ones up and put in rebar.

The local sheriff here just caught some guys stealing aluminum irrigation pipe. Seems they are stealing anything with metal in it these days.