Serial cat burglar loses his last life - he's electrocuted on the job

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: The end...for the cat burglar

 

Daily News reported on the death of a suspected cat burglar stealing cables in the NE of Thailand.

 

Police in Nong Bua of Udon Thani found the 40-45 year old man with burns on his hands.

 

He was still clutching cables he'd cut. Pliers and gloves were found nearby.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A local official called Phiphat said that it looks as though the deceased had entered the area through a disused water park where he had already exhausted the supply of cables.

 

He'd now moved onto a deserted construction site that has been abandoned by the contractor for two years and was cutting cables there.

 

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[JoePai]

Excellent, one less

[bobbin]

54 minutes ago, JoePai said:

Excellent, one less

Stealing disused cables is never going to affect me..unless it's the one leading to my house..

 

Interesting that you say a petty thief deserves death..

 

Going our Muslim brothers one better.

[2baht]

Shocking! ????

[hellohello123]

At least he died doing what he loved????

[JimmyJ]

So electric cables were still live years later on an abandoned site?

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, bobbin said:

Stealing disused cables is never going to affect me..unless it's the one leading to my house..

 

Interesting that you say a petty thief deserves death..

 

Going our Muslim brothers one better.

There's a certain degree of darwinism... but I agree, someone so desperate doesn’t deserve death, but he’s still a thief. 

 

I’m not so sympathetic to these thieves, desperate or not. 

 

My inlaws had a nice holiday home gutted by thieves like this when it was left unattended after the maid quit.

Had some poor <deleted> had electrocuted himself while gutting that house I’d feel a sense of satisfaction and no guilt.

 

 

[RichardColeman]

Poetic justice

[Skeptic7]

Shocking! ????

[BangkokReady]

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Serial cat burglar loses his last life - he's electrocuted on the job

Should say "electrocuted to death" according to the "modern definition". ????

[nigelforbes]

Deplorable, stealing cats.

[IAMHERE]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

a disused water park where he had already exhausted the supply of cables

At some point I'd think he became more than a petty thief. Small amounts at a time add up. 

 

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment."  J.R.R.Tolkien book

[richard_smith237]

27 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

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Serial cat burglar loses his last life - he's electrocuted on the job

Should say "electrocuted to death" according to the "modern definition". ????

Can we please have a debate about precise meaning of ‘electrocuted’ because it was deleted from this thread (linked below). 

 

At least we know it wasn’t the same guy !!!... 

 

[BangkokReady]

19 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Can we please have a debate about precise meaning of ‘electrocuted’ because it was deleted from this thread (linked below). 

We had a bash at it before:

 

 

Conclusion: unclear...

[Aussieroaming]

No loss and not uncommon for cable thieves to perish cutting into a live copper cable, used to occur on our site at least once or twice a year when the lure of a big fat HV cable became too much  to resist. 

[PETERTHEEATER]

As a boy Iwas told that pulling your wire would cause blindness but thisis serious.......????

[Denim]

Me owwwwwwwwwwww !

[tomazbodner]

6 hours ago, bobbin said:

Stealing disused cables is never going to affect me..unless it's the one leading to my house..

 

Interesting that you say a petty thief deserves death..

 

Going our Muslim brothers one better.

Are you saying that a state funeral should be held for environmental hero who was working hard on lowering our dependency on electricity?

[The Old Bull]

I wonder if this is the <deleted> that stole the cable to my house 200m of copper. I replaced it with aluminium but you have to ask for it as they hide it in the back of the store owing to it being many times cheaper than copper.

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, 2baht said:

Shocking! ????

Gone in a flash...

[Jaybott]

...Pliers and gloves were found nearby...

 

Why did he bother bringing gloves?  If he wore them it's a possibility he'd still be alive.

[Tropposurfer]

Note to all cabe thieves; Carry a multi-meter with you on the job.

[richard_smith237]

7 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

Note to all cabe thieves; Carry a multi-meter with you on the job.

If they knew how to use a multimeter they’d not need to ‘thieve’ as they’d have firm career prospects being more qualified than half the nations electricians !!!!