Thief in ill-advised power cable saw adventure

Subject: Thief in ill-advised power cable saw adventure Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:20 am

Police in Derbyshire are hunting for a badly scorched would-be copper thief - after finding a hacksaw embedded in an 11,000 volt power cable Saturday night.

The thief, who also left a lit blow torch at the scene, is expected to be badly charred, spiky haired and not exactly the brightest bulb in the socket.

'The sheer stupidity of cutting through power cables should be glaringly obvious to everyone,' said Phil Wilson, customer operations manager with local power company Central Networks.

'At the very least putting the hacksaw through the cable would have created an almighty bang and the line would have burned for quite a few seconds, showering them with molten copper... We can only assume they left in a great hurry or they were injured and were dragged away by an accomplice.'

But searches of local hospitals have so far not found the culprit, a spokeswoman for Derbyshire Police said Tuesday.

'Maybe they had a lucky escape,' she said. 'We don't have any leads yet.'

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=98870&in_page_id=2
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Thief in ill-advised power cable saw adventure

Thief in ill-advised power cable saw adventure

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