Man Attempts Theft of Live Power Line Using Scissors…
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 19, 2009 18:22 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, China, Crime, Electricity, Guandong, Guro, Theft
On the morning of the 15th, the burnt corpse of a man was discovered hanging upside down from a Guangdong power line.
The fire department quickly arrived on the scene, and deduced that the man was attempting to steal the cables after noticing a spot where scissors had been inserted.
We are left to speculate whether he intended to actually cut the cable free with these, or was attempting to pry something loose…
Given his evident lack of judgment, abortive cutting seems quite possible.
Following the incident, a warning sign was put around the area so that necessary repairs could be done; it’s not clear whether power supplies where interrupted by this.
Via Heaven. Chinese source.
Amongst less developed areas of the world, and even occasionally in more developed areas, theft of relatively inexpensive but highly hazardous public infrastructure is a serious problem, though usually thieves have some clue.
Still, it could be worse; at least he didn’t insert his penis into it…









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i feel so wrong for laughing at this..poor guy
Theft of any public infrastructure is a serious problem in any places in the world, especially the theft of manhole covers, in which case the victims are usually those who fall into sewers in darkness.
LOL Never had I expected to see someone die like that in real life. I guess our heroes in China didn't bother to rescue that man from the midnight channel
Electricity
best anti theft device ever.
I work in the power industry with 2.3MW devices. I just shuddered when I saw that....Darwin Award is the kindest comment I could make....stupid f***er....
O__O||
Who would be dumb enough to use scissor to cut a live wire.
Apparently, *that* guy in the OP.
Only in less developed country? What the hell are you smoking dude? In all of places you'd think this wouldn't happen, in America, stealing copper is a very profitable endeavor by the less then honorable.
You don't hear about it too often since it's not BIG news for the trolls of the main drek media to report, since it doesn't have any hollyweird morons in it. I hear about it all the time thru my buddies in the power industry.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are stolen every year and yes, it aint news if there isn't a hooker, politician or hollyweird moron involved.
How curious that most people though persona and not "bat-man".
Actually my first thinking was CFP -chinese fried people-. Sorry for that bad joke I was eating a crispy chicken wing and couldn't think of anything close to KFC, like K. Fried Communist. Any ideas?
ALL HAIL THE NEW AN HERO. Thank you, natural selection.
You don't go trying to cut a freaking power line with gigs of electricity through it, ever, even more so if you only got a pair of scissors and don't know what the hell you're doing. That's just a really dumb way to die.
you guys are hideous.. he probably was driven to this, being poor, and probably has no education either, hence the mistake.. SHAME ON YOU
So I heard Junes has a newly acquired product: a 70 inch Sony Bravia. It's big enough for us to fit in and enter the Mayonaka Terebi.
Bravo! Bravo! Another idiot gone in the world population. That's one down and many many MANY more people to go x_x
my brother almost died like this, for a couple of minutes he tried to cut an electricity cable because he thought he was cutting a tv cable cable, luckily he couldn't cut.
power cables are not inexpensive. copper is becoming rare and the prices are rising greatly in recent times.
the copper alloys used for outdoor power lines are even more valuable, afaik.
other copper thieves are at least smart enought to short-circuit the live wires first...
its laik... P4! =))
ah, when i see this image, i think Mayonaka Terebii(Midnite Channel) do exist =)) *shot-ed to death*
Natural Selection at work!
Love it.
I think we just found the first Darwin Award winner of 2009 *rolls eyes*
Wow.
What a moron.
Child... In Ukrain people steal wires from high voltage power line (up to 50000V) with the same scissors. :)
THIS GUY IS A GENIUS!!!
*insert countless joke here about man that too stupid to know what electricity is...."
The police is pretty much useless now...
Let's to Junes, people! We're the only ones that can solve this case!
Woha, sorta like sk0t
http://strugglers.net/wiki/User:Andy/Sk0t
eek, guess he didn't know metal scissors and electrical power lines don't mix
OMG PERSONA 4!!!
I thought so too.
That's what I thought.
lol.
EXACTLY!!
Maybe it was suicide?
I was thinking that too,never really know though.
Oh Snap, Darwin Award!
Seconded!!
darwin award denied.
rules state that persons ability to improve the greater genetic pool via removing themselfs from it requires that there death be not only the result of stupidity, but also highly entertaining and theatrical.
How does using scissors to cut a live wire not be entertaining or hysterical?
I'd say that if you could've seen him do it, it would have been quite entertaining.
He got 1 shotted!
Well, atleast he died doing what he loves, theiving
Don't know what to say.
Ouch.
And remember boys and girls:
It isn't the voltage -high enough it'll blow off a limb though- that kills ya, it's the amps!
In fact all it needs is a measly 7 amps to stop your heart. So quit shoving in those butter knives into your toasters and plug in dildos!
Actually it's a multiplication of both, also known as watts.
oh no!!! The murderer that's been putting people in the Midnight Channel is still on the loose! Someone call the Inaba police!
come to think of it, guangdong is pretty foggy this time of year....
NAH.
HAHAHAHA
first thing that came to my mind also.
Same... Same... Must use my Persona...
Just pulled a Persona 4 marathon this weekend. It was real sweet.
yeah they showed a hanging person just like this in a scene from Persona 4. Creepy- yet dumb as well
Dammit!
I knew i should have kept my glasses! Even if it made me look so much like a dork...
Sigh.. guess i'll have teddie make me a much cooler one when i see him in Junes...
As long as its not that one with the swirly eyes and stupid nose..
He's already dead...
This had awesome written all over it. This is like how one instinctively learn not to put your hand on an oven because it is hot. I guess the dude skipped out on the lesson about high voltage electricity and you!
I see a lot of shoes on power lines around here, wouldn't it be a change to see a dead body.
If shoes on a powerline means nearby crack house, what would a corpse mean exactly?
Nearby slaughterhouse?
I lol'd
hahaha dumbass!!!
Everyday great at your Junes!
What makes us laugh is what reminds us of our own embarrassing and imperfect human nature.
Therefore this is hilarious.
Mr. Bat, plz weik up, it's no taim for sleeps!
LOL~~ hanging body on electric pole, what a Persona 4 come true there.
Someone better watch the midnight channel to keep update to the next event happening around the world.
In another world, this man would be known as "Railgun" and would be firing coins at High School males with spiky hair.
Railgun is a girl
besides, snake won't be dead by its own poison right?
persona 4?
The fall of Saigon was the largest helicopter airlift in history. Most of the evacuees flew out from the US Embassy. Problem was, at least at the start of the evac, was that the only place to land choppers at the embassy was the roof, and only the smallest choppers could land there. Much larger birds could land in the parking lot but there were 2 things blocking the way. One was a tamarind tree, a gift from Vietnam to the US. That got removed in short order with a chainsaw. The other thing was a bit more complicated....powerlines! The USMC scratched their heads about it for a second, then one of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children climbed a power pole with a pair of bolt cutters, not knowing if the power was still on or not. A snip and then a sigh of relief; the lines were dead.
That is one brave dude x_x
This has the Persona 4 murder cases written ALL OVER IT.
Coincidence aside, the ignorant dood should've at least insolated himself. Goddamnit, China.
Im laughing at the thought that people are laughing about his death.
ah but are they laughing at this death or the stupidity of his death.
Hmm, I thought the cable thieves in my place is worse than this.
Cutting a 60kV power line with a saw, the only safety measure was a pair rubber gloves.
His death was a 'shocking' one in every way.
Maybe he just wanted to die?