Nf - Bear Vs. Electrical Wires - Pics

[dustink]

I received this e-mail with these pictures. I hadn't seen this before....but here's the story

 

 

 

I really feel sorry for the bear. Here are the pictures (I was a little disturbed by them....just as a warning):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BrownTown]

poor guy

[Whopper]

Dustin we have had two separate incidents in last last six months of people trying to steal what they thought was copper wiring from public utility poles only to be electocuted. One died and the other is in a vegitated state. Bears don't know any better but people should. The one guy not only was trying to steal the wiring from a live grid he was doing it in a thunder/rain storm go figure.

 

Whopper

 

 

Below is an example of some idiot sticking his arm where he shouldn't have.

Edited December 6, 2006 by Whopper

[Josh Rogers]

I wonder what gave him the idea to chomp down on that wire? did that bucket contain the wire?

[1leggedangler]

That was one big bear. Hope she went quickly. Thanks for the link.

 

Cheers,

1leg

[Whopper]

I wonder what gave him the idea to chomp down on that wire? did that bucket contain the wire?

 

That bucket is a fiberglass pedestal used to enclose wiring splices, in my area they are normally installed under ground with the cover being flush with grade, at least for high voltage applications.

[dustink]

Ouch, Phil!

 

Don't feel near as bad for the idiots who are trying to lift some copper....but I do feel for that big bear!

 

dk

[irishfield]

Gee Phil...I wonder who the "idiot" was and how come the camera appears to be in HIS other hand. Glad it healed up well and didn't keep the said "idiot" off the water very long! I assume he was a fisherman anyhow...

 

Poor bear...

Edited December 6, 2006 by irishfield

[Whopper]

Gee Phil...I wonder who the "idot" was and how come the camera appears to be in HIS other hand. Glad it healed up well and didn't keep the said "idot" off the water very long! I assume he was a fisherman anyhow...

 

Poor bear...

 

Wayne you are to observant for my own good

 

Rumor has it that said idiot didn't miss a day of work and went on a week long catching trip two weeks after stupid move.

 

That's my story and I'm sticking to it

 

Whopper

[dustink]

 

Wayne you are to observant for my own good

 

Rumor has it that said idiot didn't miss a day of work and went on a week long catching trip two weeks after stupid move.

 

That's my story and I'm sticking to it

 

Whopper

 

 

 

LOL...c'mon Phil, tell the story! I'm sure you didn't do it trying to steal some copper......did you??

[dwc67]

if that would have been 16 or 27kv it would have interesting to see how far it flew.

[glen]

Its a new way of hillbilly hunting. They took all of there guns away. Now they kill them and cook them at the same time.

Edited December 6, 2006 by glen

[Whopper]

LOL...c'mon Phil, tell the story! I'm sure you didn't do it trying to steal some copper......did you??

No Dustin I did not try to steal some copper

I will tell you the story when we hook up though, but the jest of it I was helping my crew on a holiday shut down and thought that I would be a hero and work on something hot so they could get home earlier and it backfired on me

 

 

dwc67 By the looks of it the bear was stopped dead in it's tracks and my guess in was 5KV, looks almost like a street lighting circuit.

 

 

Whopper

[cisco]

Maybe the bear responded to the humming sound the device gave off... perhaps at a frequency we humans can't hear... and opened the box looking for the same stuff he got before from a beehive.

 

I've seen woodpeckers hammer on transformers atop hydro poles for what appears to be the same reason.

[walleyejigger]

a little over cooked for my likeing

[Carp]

What a way to go !!!

 

I think if he had the choice, he would have taken a high powered

bullet between the eyes.

[Fisherman]

I've seen woodpeckers hammer on transformers atop hydro poles for what appears to be the same reason.

Just for trivia, the louder the noise woodpeckers make like rapping on rain gutters, metal chimnies, metal stand-offs on hydro poles, the "larger" their marked territory is.

[fishindevil]

thats to bad,looks like he bit off more than he could chew......poor bear

[ccmtcanada]

Yep....poor fella!!! He sure was a biggun!!!!

[GbayGiant]

Looks like he got into the wrong picnic basket. Hope he went quick.

[Garyv]

I find this entire post shocking just shocking.