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Looks like this guy was a tweaker, tweakers in many towns and cities are notorious for getting killed like this.
Man electrocuted while attempting to break into business, officials say
MILWAUKEE Medical officials in Milwaukee believe a man was electrocuted while trying to break into a business, possibly to steal copper.
Paramedics were called to Greer Tire at 6550 N. 40th St. after an employee noticed a man hanging over the roof of the building.
"There was a man slumped over the edge of the roof, right by where the electrical connections are coming in," Pat Greer said.
Greer described the terrifying scene that workers came upon early this week at his north side tire wholesale business.
"He was leaning over the cap at the time with the wire cutters in his hands and had been electrocuted," Greer said.
Fire Department officials believed the man may have been attempting to cut the business security system wire and was electrocuted in the process. Authorities suspect the victim may have been on the roof to steal copper wiring.
Read more: http://www.wisn.com/news/south-east-wisconsin/milwaukee/man-electrocuted-while-attempting-to-break-into-business/-/10148890/23292762/-/8k3bi9/-/index.html#ixzz2mZLiThcv
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)company substation!
On edit: Removed rofl smilie due to it being misunderstood. No one thought any of these idiots deserved to die, but apparently the humor was too dark. Judas priest...
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Would have been great to have security camera footage of that knee-slapper.
Comedy GOLD!
Archae
(46,327 posts)Ignorance is forgivable.
Stupidity is not.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Well, then excuse me, doctor.
I gather you support the death penalty, correct?
Archae
(46,327 posts)The guy you mentioned, was mentally ill, scratched himself to death.
A guy is drinking with his buddies, decides to be funny, play Russian roulette.
With a Glock.
(This did happen)
Which one is an idiot?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)For whom the clinical term used to be "idiot".
Anyone is capable of a lapse of good judgment.
Anyone is capable of a temporary impairment or emotional disturbance.
Plenty of people don't know how guns work.
No, I don't believe in the death penalty for actual criminals, let alone for eugenic purposes, which is the implication of "Darwin Award". The title itself suggests an "award" for the elimination of behavioral traits you believe to be heritable - which itself indicates your colossal ignorance of the subject.
A death penalty for arrogant posturing by the type of person who no doubt amused themselves with the antics of the less intellectually-gifted in their youth, and have not outgrown it? I'll think about that one.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)Crispy critter.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)Tweakers will sell their own babies for a fix.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Who was schizophrenic and believed there were bugs living under his skin.
What an idiot.
Scratched himself to death - died from the infection.
What a dork!
longship
(40,416 posts)Or Mother Nature.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It would be cool to have a TV show where we could all watch and laugh along.
Rex
(65,616 posts)It's only competition would be, "Ouch my balls!"
H. Cromwell
(151 posts)A guy I graduated with attempted to steal some power lines he thought were 'dead'. The line(s) in question were very much alive, to the tune of 66,000volts. After climbing the pole the thief was electrocuted. It is surmised that the fall to the ground restarted his heart, he lived with some leg muscle damage and managed to win a law suit against the power company.
Thankfully he never reproduced.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Once he looked something like this and someone loved him.
H. Cromwell
(151 posts)Later on in his spared life he sexually molested his young niece. He served serious jail time for that crime. His niece never really recovered from her ordeal and died young from drugs.
I guess you got me there.
That is the definition of scum.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)the guy who experiments with electrocuting fish. He puts the wire into the water, the fish float up, he gets real excited about his success, and goes for the fish.
He ends up floating with the fish he killed.
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It's common for highly intelligent people to believe that intelligence is largely a heritable trait when, in the scale of things, innate intellectual capacity isn't as highly variable as is supposed.
Guys like William Shockley - Nobel prize winning physicist and utter moron in genetics.
I've seen a lot of these types during the course of several post-graduate degrees. Anyone with low intelligence, mental health or addiction issues - are subhuman to them.
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Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)To be a republican idea. Who else would have so little empathy they could find a good laugh and a feeling of superiority while being regaled in the tales of another person's misfortune. I think maybe they who find hilarity in hurt shouldn't be allowed to breed.