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wrote:

> Too bad the below person was not Sheldumb. ns
>
> NY Resident Used Industrial Saw
>
> POND EDDY, N.Y. -- New York authorities say a man was electrocuted
> Saturday when he tried to cut through a downed power line with an
> industrial saw.
>
> Authorities say the 64-year-old Pond Eddy man was drunk and ignored
> repeated orders to stay away from the cable.
>
> The accident happened in the presence of firefighters who had been
> guarding the fallen line. The Sullivan County public safety commissioner
> says officials chased the man away from the line several times before he
> fetched the saw from his house.
>
> Authorities say the line fell in a storm Friday and had been down for
> about seven hours while utility crews tended to damage elsewhere.

I have a hard time seeing this as an "accident".

Miche

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