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Aug 1, 2008 | 08:33 AM

Greed4Speed

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Almost a Darwin Award in Dallas

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...k.352a564.html

Aug 1, 2008 | 08:46 AM

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Oh wow.....Thank God there was a picture!

Aug 1, 2008 | 08:50 AM

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zzzzzzaaaappppp!!! ...his copper stealing days are done...

Aug 1, 2008 | 08:57 AM

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zzzzzzaaaappppp!!! ...his copper stealing days are done...

or maybe now he will improvise and use a long metal pole

Aug 1, 2008 | 09:04 AM

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Maybe but I wonder how much damage he sustained besides the burned skin. He's probably dumb enough to finish himself off somehow.

Aug 1, 2008 | 09:08 AM

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Even a complete idiot would have to be unexplainably high to try to steal copper from a live pole :O

Aug 1, 2008 | 09:11 AM

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Aug 1, 2008 | 10:29 AM

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Too bad the voltage didn't finish the job.

Aug 1, 2008 | 11:20 AM

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Too bad the voltage didn't finish the job.

No ****, maybe the burns will do him in though, we can only hope.

Aug 1, 2008 | 11:21 AM

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mmmmm FRIED Crack head anyone?

Aug 1, 2008 | 11:44 AM

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Too bad it did not kill him.

Aug 1, 2008 | 01:06 PM

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Is this something that happens alot? I've seen like 3 cases of this over the last 2 weeks.

I didnt even know copper was that valuable.

Aug 1, 2008 | 07:33 PM

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You should have seen the post on the viper forum about a month ago when the person was unreconizable as human after doing the same thing. YUCK!

Aug 1, 2008 | 08:00 PM

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Ha, he was stealing from a pole on Regal Row. That's an industrial street and I wouldn't be surprised if the recycling company he used was in that neighborhood also. I picture him going upto the fence and them telling him "We're closed because we lost power." And he's standing there trying to sell them their power lines.

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