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DaiJones

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Bungling thief, 21, set fire to himself while trying to steal live 11,000-watt cable causing power cut that left his grandmother on stair lift for four hours
Richard Howells saw sparks fly from his fingers after prying out the cable with a screwdriver
The 21-year-old caused a power cut to 1,000 homes

His own grandmother was stranded on her stairlift for 4 hours by power outage


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...eal-live-11-000-watt-cable.html#ixzz2UsYhBfi6
 
Bloody amateur! I'd have got away with it no problem and turbo charged granny's stairlift at the same time...............<laugh>

Seriously though - messing with 11kv is no joke. He's lucky to be alive.