In article >,
"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:

> Miche 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".
>
> I have a hard time seeing it as his outpouring of grief over Jelena
> Jankovic's poor showing at Wimbledon. What? Nobody said it had anything to
> do with Jelena Jankovic? Well, nobody said it was an accident, either.

Quoting the article:

"The accident happened in the presence of firefighters who had been
guarding the fallen line."

IMO it wasn't an accident -- it was the result of egregious
****headedness.

Miche

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