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Larry Jaques[_3_]
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Dead guy tries to steal wire from electrical vault
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:17:38 -0500, Ignoramus3392
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On 2010-10-26,
lid wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:07:18 -0400, John
wrote:
Every once in a while it happens here that someone tries to steal a hunk
of shovel cable that is lying on the ground. Shovel cable is what feeds
the large dragline or mining shovels with 4000 volts that powers the
motors in the shovel.
John
Sort of like over in Nigeria where they drill into gasoline pipelines
to steal gasoline. They routinely get a few hundred people burned to a
crisp over there when the inevitable happens.
Looks like Darwinism on a massive scale.
Indeed.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n2302121.shtml
Instant Karma can be a bitch, can't she?
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