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…
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.
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 guys are hideous.. he probably was driven to this, being poor, and probably has no education either, hence the mistake.. SHAME ON YOU