Re: Hey folks, you remember common sense?
9261290100133004104781Speaking of the Darwins... One of my favorites, and proof that stupid people don't need anything more than stupidity to cause a fatality:
(mid-1980s, Tennessee) A mile down the road from Middle Tennessee State University, a couple of young, very drunk MTSU frat boys climbed a barbed wire fence that was intended to keep lesser mortals out of an electric substation. One frat boy climbed to the top of a transformer. That alone was an obviously bad idea, but it got worse when he urinated on the transformer on which he stood. As if electrocution via genitalia wasn't bad enough, consider his motivation to pee: a wasp nest "target" attached to the transformer. Needless to say, the wasps were the lesser of his worries. He did not live long.
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Reminds me of a similar story in my area. Some copper thieves thought the substation would be the mother load...
9261290100133004104781Speaking of the Darwins... One of my favorites, and proof that stupid people don't need anything more than stupidity to cause a fatality:
(mid-1980s, Tennessee) A mile down the road from Middle Tennessee State University, a couple of young, very drunk MTSU frat boys climbed a barbed wire fence that was intended to keep lesser mortals out of an electric substation. One frat boy climbed to the top of a transformer. That alone was an obviously bad idea, but it got worse when he urinated on the transformer on which he stood. As if electrocution via genitalia wasn't bad enough, consider his motivation to pee: a wasp nest "target" attached to the transformer. Needless to say, the wasps were the lesser of his worries. He did not live long.
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Reminds me of a similar story in my area. Some copper thieves thought the substation would be the mother load...
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