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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bobbeth87, post: 1119014, member: 18369&quot;]...than trying to steal copper from a power line and electrocuting yourself to death...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.kfor.com/news/local/kfor-news-thief-killed-stealing-copper-story,0,5298632.story" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kfor.com/news/local/kfor-news-thief-killed-stealing-copper-story,0,5298632.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.kfor.com/news/local/kfor-news-thief-killed-stealing-copper-story,0,5298632.story</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>LINDSAY, Okla. -- A suspected thief is shocked to death after an unusual attempted copper theft. Lawmen say 40-year-old Shad Mills was in middle of pulling down a power pole when it snapped and caught fire.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;re told he suffered third-degree burns over 85 percent of his body.</p><p><br /></p><p>On an old home site behind a few winter-bit branches is what is left of a snapped power line.</p><p><br /></p><p>You wouldn&#039;t think it had any power flowing to it; but it did, and its bite was deadly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Garvin County authorities raced to the scene after a man called 911 and said he needed an ambulance.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;You could kind of tell he was shaky, like he was kind of upset,&quot; Lindsay Police Department dispatcher Kourtney Fancher.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or in shock.</p><p><br /></p><p>Investigators say Mills called for help after he&#039;d been zapped by more than 14,000 volts of electricity.</p><p><br /></p><p>They believe he was trying to steal copper from the power pole by wrapping a chain around it and then pulling it with his truck.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pole snapped.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In the course of the theft, he came in contact with a line that was still electrified which burned him,&quot; Garvin County Sheriff Larry Rhodes said.</p><p><br /></p><p>The grass around the area is still charred.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was about 2 a.m. when Mills made the last call he&#039;d ever make.</p><p><br /></p><p>He told the dispatcher on the other end that there was a grass fire and that he was hurt.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I didn&#039;t realize that it was to an extent that they didn&#039;t think he&#039;d make it until probably the next day,&quot; Fancher said. &quot;I was really surprised when they said he didn&#039;t make it.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The man lost his life, for what lawmen say, was only about $150 worth of copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;One thing I hope we can learn from this incident is that there&#039;s always this possibility of a loss of life,&quot; Rhodes said.</p><p><br /></p><p>This case is still an ongoing investigation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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