The Stupidity Of Some People

[VHG]

Total madness

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-25490619

[Peter Pedant]

I hope he wore gloves ! and wellies

[shoota]

Shouldn't this be in current affairs?

It's normally the coppers who do the nicking scrivens....

[Baldric]

A real Bright Spark eh?

[dunnitall]

Should have died... That would have stopped him/her..

[zebo]

Are we supposed to feel sympathy for the thief?

[jno]

maybe. They fully expected to find him electrocuted. And yet... he wasn't there. So maybe he'd thought about the risk and taken precautions, and wasn't so stupid after all?

[New Judge]

A rather telling phrase in this report:

"Our initial inquiries are to ensure the safety of the person responsible"

So says a representative of today's police "service". Of course their first priority should be to apprehend the inconsiderate scroat who jeopardised the power supplies of hundreds of people and industries and hauling him up before the Beak pronto. The fact that he might have suffered self-inflicted injuries whilst laying his filthy hands on kit that does not belong to him should be the very last of their concerns.

[cassa333]

Darwinism at it's best :)

[ludwig]

// Police said it was likely the person had been badly burned or suffered an electrical shock and should seek medical assistance urgently. //

Aah bless. It's not just that they want to arrest him - they're concerned about his health. The photofit probably features someone with wide staring eyes, a sooty face, and hair standing wildly on end.

[jno]

NJ, I expect they'd prefer him to be alive when they arrest him, hence the "initial" concern over his health.

[Postdog]

Shocking

[Ellipsis]

> He said: "On examining the damage at the site of the incident, the Scottish Power engineer fully expected to find the person responsible to have been electrocuted.

They probably were. I wonder ... hmmm ... is it possible, do you think ... that more than one person was involved? And, if so, that those that weren't killed took away the bodies of those that were?

[nungate]

Not stupidity, simply greed! It's happening more often up here now as the law changed in England about the selling of scrap metal, making it more difficult to sell stolen metal, sadly the Scottish government did not follow suit and as a result these thefts are increasing in number

[trt]

I bet it blew his kilt up to the highlands!

[Wharton]

Perhaps he was English, some o' them ur no' canny.

[Svejk]

My guess would be romanian.

[weecalf]

Any one who would do that is cable of anything

[youngmafbog]

//The Stupidity Of Some People//


Are you referring to the piece of scum stealing the cable or the right-on rozzers more bothered about the thief than the victims?

[tamborine]

fully charged & will run awhile