Stealing Copper the Hard Way


	Stealing Copper the Hard Way

ColoradoRight

7-27-2007 5:06 PM

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darwin, theft, copper, idiots

ColoradoRight says:

We can only hope this happened before someone this stupid actually reproduced.

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I can't recall anyone having the brilliant idea, at least around here, to steal it while power surged through it on a power pole...he must have thought he'd struck upon a brilliant idea, after all power poles go on for MILES with that stuff!
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Brandon was in the news in Feb. for attempting to impersonate a policeman so he could search people's medicine cabinets for prescription drugs, namely OxyContin.
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