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Thieves risk lives to steal metal

2008 Reader Submission
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At the beginning of January, phone lines went down in a small village in Cambridgeshire, UK and hundreds of residents were cut off.

Philip Galloway, 23, received a 33,000 volt shock when he tried to steal the wiring from a live electricity sub-station

"I got in there to try and get some copper and my hands touched one of the boxes", he said. "I thought it was dead, but it blew me clean back and I was laying on floor with my eyes at the back of my head."

After weeks in hospital he has returned home, but is in constant pain. He has had skin grafts and requires further operations on his arm.

Submitted on 03/29/2008

Submitted by: Edwin Harnell
Reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7318247.stm

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Bruce said:
Neutral: For Darwin's Eyes
I still think such stories are way too common since we get them on almost a weekly basis but Darwin has said she still likes seeing these, so off to her it goes.


James said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
If Darwin is, in fact, collecting these, she'll have hundreds to sort through!


Chip said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes


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