Cooper Thieves Electrocuted

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Darwinist irony.

[snip]

The bodies of two men believed to have been electrocuted while stealing
copper wiring were found early Tuesday on an abandoned driving range in
Riverside County, authorities said.

San Jacinto police and county firefighters received a report of fireworks
in the 900 block of Idyllwild Drive about 1:20 a.m., but instead discovered
a fire near a transformer, said Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela of the Riverside
County Sheriff's Department.

After extinguishing the fire, which took place at what used to be San
Jacinto Golf Center, officials discovered the bodies. A spokeswoman with
the coroner's office said the bodies were burned beyond recognition and
would possibly be identified today.

"They were attempting to remove copper wire from inside what we call a
pad-mount enclosure -- it's an electrical box or structure that contains
high-voltage energized equipment," said Steve Conroy, a Southern California
Edison spokesman.

The fire caused a 12,000-volt line connected to the circuit to go out of
service, Conroy said, and about 1,600 residences in Hemet and San Jacinto
were affected by a brief power outage.

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More:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bandits-killed3-2009jun03,0,7082631
.story

Enjoy!

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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