8th House Stories: Copper Thieves – Death By Electrocution
Astrology in real life.
My husband used to haul copper it’s a high value load, people love to steal. That was a few years ago and the problem has increased since.
Here someone died in the process of attempting to steal copper when they grabbed a live wire.
A neighborhood in Sacramento is leaving the lights on 24 hours a day to deter thieves from stealing the wires.
I think this is in odd contrast to Colorado Springs, CO who turns off the lights because they can’t afford to turn them on and wonder if we’re not going to wind up in the dark one way or the other.
But mostly I think of the son of one of my bosses back when I was a teen. He worked for the electric company and died when he touched a live wire and fell to his death at 27 years old.
Back then, there was a lot of death around me. For years, I was surrounded and absolutely inundated with the deaths of people around me; people in their prime for the most part.
In whatever case, I remember when that guy fell. I was standing (behind the bar) next to his father when he got the call. I actually got the call but it was for him so I called him over to take it having no idea he was going to set the phone down and say, “My son is dead”.
It was very bad. I didn’t like the guy, see and he didn’t like me yet there we were. ”
I’m sorry,” I mumbled. I was 18 years old.
11 Responses to “8th House Stories: Copper Thieves – Death By Electrocution”
It went on during the Depression… this is a hell of thing to me for some reason… or for many reasons, I suppose.
Some dipshits from FL drove all the way to the tornado-ravaged parts of north AL to steal wires and loot.
http://www.bradenton.com/2011/05/05/3169240/local-men-charged-in-alabama-looting.html
happens everywhere where I am. all kinds of scrap metal actually, not just copper. my friend ripped her calf open, crossing a field–someone stole the cage covering a sprinkler head and she fell in a hole of some sort.
the scrap metal places now have all kinds of rules. you must have a car (to prevent binners with their shopping carts from coming in), have picture ID, etc.
when my ex was a welder he worked on an outside job that had about 15 HUGE (15′ long, i’ in diametre) rolls of copper wiring left out, covered by a tarp for a few weeks. more than half of them were stolen. You’d need a big truck to take that stuff out of there.
a couple of years ago on a tip from someone else, I started buying copper pans etc. for pennies at the thrift stores, to resell.
sorry didn’t mean to say my ex. i obviously need to move on from that:o
copper thieves will steal parts off your car and your home here. I forget which parts they target on your car, but the piece they look for on your home is directly connected to your electrical box somehow outside. At work, we have had people who have broken into the homes we have in inventory (vacant) and completely stripped them of copper costing tens of thousands of dollars to replace the wiring, sheetrock, insulation..it’s nuts. It’s a big thing to do this to abandoned houses.
As for death..well, it’s my job to work around it in this life. It’s just a lot I have chosen to accept. I’m good at it.
This, unfortunately, is a common occurrence in my part of the world. We regularly hear reports of people being electrocuted in abandoned mines. Apparently, when the mines shut down, all of the electrical wiring and such is left behind. The theives assume that since the operation is closed that the power is “off”; sometimes it isn’t. It is such a problem that we have billboards warning people to stay out of abandoned coal mines!
Even in the rural area I live, I have a friend who’s house is very private, back off the road with a dozen acres of land around it, and he came home from work one night to discover someone had ripped up his flooring/walls and stole not just the wiring, but all the metal duckwork (sp?) as well.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/05/13/quincy-copper-thieves-steal-phone-lines-knock-out-service/
A friend was telling me the other day of a house he had seen for sale. He had seen it a couple of years ago, $650,000. Now it was on sale for $150,000. Seems the people who bought it, went into foreclosure, and when they left, they stripped everything, even the copper plumbing out of the house. I had just seen that with the crazy Russians that used to live next door–they even took the interior doors out of the house, and the trim around them.
I have been hearing about people stripping the houses like that as well. They feel entitled… apparently.
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In the wanning days of Bill Clinton’s Presidency , I was on a base in Hawaii. In those days there were quite a bit of old base property that was empty , and soon became prime targets of theft.
Yup… sooner or later we would get notification of someone who got electrocuted. One of them was “ballsy” enough to try to steal the overhead wires…. it’s “only” 2200-2400 volts. **crispy leftoversUnfortunatelyetly , most of theftsefts were the wires & copper pipes inside unoccupied buildings.