Cable thief burned

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Great stuff. I suspect he might be stupid enough to do that again.

[Mr Pounder]

Dumb Britain.

[Nthkentman]

Great stuff. I suspect he might be stupid enough to do that again.

Pure Darwininsm.

There is a pic at a local sub station where I used to go to work on lorry cranes of a Pikey melted to the side of a transformer complete with the bolt croppers still in his semi skeletal hands. Dumb f*ck of the year award (Posthumously!)

[John Rumm]

Shame the judge did not order him to pay for some of his treatment as well...

[fred]

In article , Grimly Curmudgeon writes

Glynn Wales, chairman of the bench in Darlington, said: ?These are serious matters."

So serious that they gave the f'ckr a suspended sentence so no judicial punishment for the offence at all, I despair.

[Bert Coules]

The man is clearly a major criminal:

[Steve Firth]

I see the article says that he has transferred his activities to stealing tables.

[David in Normandy]

Maybe he's the chairman of the local thieves association and likes to table a motion ... or motion tables at least.

[ARW]

"sending 11,000 volts through Wayne Houfe" - how long should the journo get for that one :-):

[fred]

Outrage, no capital V on Volts!

[polygonum]

The abbreviation is V but the name is volt, so far as I know.

(And if I am wrong, charge me.)

[David in Normandy]

Is that the current usage?

[fred]

Think you're right, I was assuming that named after bloke would inherit the proper noun status but I was wrong.

Happy to head off any potential conflict . . .

[polygonum]

Huh! Boring... :-)

Had you been writing about German, you would have been right, and I would have been wrong:

'The CGPM rules state that the names of units follow the grammatical rules associated with common nouns: in English and in French they start with a lowercase letter (e.g., newton, hertz, pascal), even when the symbol for the unit begins with a capital letter. This also applies to "degrees Celsius", since "degree" is the unit. In German, however, the names of units, just like all German nouns, start with capital letters.'

[Bob Eager]

Definitely in a bad way if he has to take 31 tables (sic) every day.

[geoff]

The Spannung's killing me

[polygonum]

Das war ein gutes Wortspiel.

[The Other John]

The journo's mistake is that it's amps that go through you not volts! The volts are across you.

TOJ

[Andrew Gabriel]

I suspect it was the arc-flash that got him. Very unlikely to still be around if he got 11kV across him.

[Arty Effem]

The real outrage is that you can't send Volts 'through' anything, only Amps.