Copper Theives - Warrning Graphic

[Searay215]

Downtown Dallas...copper thieves were trying to pull a 13,200 volt live wire out of a conduit

Note the bolt cutter and the copper wire on the ground.
WELL DONE - both of them

"Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid." John Wayne

[lit joe]

He went in style check the sneakers people kill for them.

[Whitehouse]

I was expectin some kind of graph....

[HistoryNotHisStory]

Wow! Copper thieves who like to steal wiring should think! Electrocution is not the real danger. An Arc Flash caused by a short circuit caused their death. The heat from this is tremendous and only last for a brief period but causes all in the vicinity to burst into flames.

The following video shows the unleashed fury of an arc flash.

[MizMotown]

that's what I call...

TEXAS TOAST

[Zacha341]

Umm, not exactly the standard power point presentation with pie charts and stuff.

I was expectin some kind of graph....

[Whitehouse]

Umm, not exactly the standard power point presentation with pie charts and stuff.

Well... At least it got power.... [[Instant rimshot... )

[ordinary]

That picture is horrible but informative. When I was working on Tireman near Livernois, there was some poor young man who fried himself trying to steal copper from a transformer. The transformer was enclosed in a cyclone fenced box and was clearly marked with some sign that said Danger 20,000 volts or some huge number like that. This incident also shows the danger of being illiterate.