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packman

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3. Obviously a novice

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 12:07 PM

Jun 2014

Copper thieves know to shotgun the wires. When I had a cabin in WV, the locals would have shotgun parties where a group would shotgun several hundred yards off the high tension wires,cut them up for loading, stack them on their ATV's and be gone before the troopers could get there.

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