Man electrocuted after shooting down power lines with rifle

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[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE] Wednesday May 8, 2013
Man electrocuted after shooting down power lines with rifle
by Ashley B. Craig
Daily Mail staff
Advertiser

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - One Fayette County man is dead after he and an accomplice tried to steal copper wire by shooting down high-tension power lines with a rifle, authorities said.

Fayette deputies and rangers from the National Parks Service found the man's body tangled up in downed lines Wednesday morning in the Beury Mountain Wildlife Management Area near Thurmond. The apparent cause of death was electrocution.

The remote area where the body was discovered is near Babcock State Park.

Emergency dispatchers sent officers to the area after a 911 call.

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Paging Mr. Darwin...

[Newest Reality]

1. Okay.

Without being elitist or snobbish:

Darwin award, or what?

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2. Considering he was almost certainly standing right underneath the lines...

...I'm thinking Darwin strikes again.

[liberal N proud]

3. And some how gun nuts believe that owning a gun suddenly makes one responsible adult.

This suggest otherwise.