I was going to post this in the Safety News area, but there doesn't seem to be anything very safe about what this fellow did:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...20031007/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_canada_shock

(See a vaguely related story linked at https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/Forum16/HTML/000071.html )




[This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 10-08-2003).]

Bjarney,

That is not about copper theifs!!!!

Yea, but it sure is about someone receiving a severe electrical shock. Hence -somewhat related-

Big Jim,
I agree with ya mate!.
straightedge, I think what Bjarney was trying to illustrate, was the fact of the similarity in the arc-fault explosions.
Over here we have had several idiots trying to remove our over-head wires, for the Cu content, someone wants to tell these Egg-heads that HV lines are copper-coated Steel or Steel cored Aluminium!.

My point was that both were medium-voltage incidents that can be very unforgiving…

In many places, scrap-metals yards and coils of wire are sort of like pawn shops and jewelry—either will alert officials if someone comes in off the street with goods of suspicious origin.

I don’t know if it happens very often, but I have heard of electric utilities keeping remote sections of line energized to discourage interest in ‘span harvesting.’