NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — New Haven police say a man trying to cut an electrified power line was severely burned and caused an outage to about 3,000 utility customers.
Police spokesman David Hartman said officers found 24-year-old Sammy Gonzalez just after 4 p.m. Thursday after he called an ambulance to his home, saying he had been burned by electricity. Hartman said Gonzalez told police he was injured when he crossed nearby train tracks.
But Hartman said utility company surveillance tape from the former English power station on Grand Avenue showed Gonzalez trying to cut the line.
Gonzalez was transferred to Bridgeport Burn Center in critical but stable condition with third-degree burns. He faces charges including burglary, attempt to commit larceny and breach of the peace.
Hartman said United Illuminating restored the power by about 7:30 p.m.
Don’t people realize there are cameras everywhere?
What an idiot, he deserves what ever injuries he got!
wtf did he think would happen?????
Karma is a *****. He got what he deserved
I love eye for an eye
Damn there’s idiots everywhere these days
Is this man for real? Life is getting “scarier” with people like this running around. Seriously, this man needs to be put in some mental facility for ninety days of observation , for there is something very wrong with him. He might go back out and do something “worse” next time killing him and “taking other unfortunate people around him, with him, if he is allowed to walk away, besides jail time!”
My question is: what the hell was his reasoning? “IM GONNA CUT OUT POWER FOR ALL THESE PEOPLE”… i dont get it.
There’s video?
idiot in a making
It’s likely he was cutting the wires so that he could steal the copper and sell it. It’s not uncommon these days, especially with copper prices so high.