Good news - cable thief zapped with 22000 volts

[Arthur Little]

I'm with Doc Alan on this one! Whilst far be it from me to condone his "light-fingeredness" (*puns INtended where appropriate) he's "small *fry" compared with the criminal hard core of murderers ... rapists ... (albeit a BIG-time *"flasher" of sorts for a split second!) ... bent *coppers and the like.

Besides, he IS still a human being [just about !] a lucky one at that; ... this latest escapade has been a *jolt to his system - a 22,000 volts' one - that he's unlikely to ever forget ... a terrible lesson learnt ... and a lesson, moreover, in which he came within a hair's breadth [literally!] of a "*sticky" end.

[Dedworth]

I'm with Doc Alan on this one! Whilst far be it from me to condone his "light-fingeredness" (*puns INtended where appropriate) he's "small *fry" compared with the criminal hard core of murderers ... rapists ... (albeit a BIG-time *"flasher" of sorts for a split second!) ... bent *coppers and the like.

Besides, he IS still a human being [just about !] a lucky one at that; ... this latest escapade has been a *jolt to his system - a 22,000 volts' one - that he's unlikely to ever forget ... a terrible lesson learnt ... and a lesson, moreover, in which he came within a hair's breadth [literally!] of a "*sticky" end.

Not so sure you'd feel that way Arthur if one dark night you plunged 30 feet down a sewer shaft because a diddycoy had taken the manhole cover to his local scrap yard

[Arthur Little]

Not so sure you'd feel that way Arthur if one dark night you plunged 30 feet down a sewer shaft because a diddycoy had taken the manhole cover to his local scrap yard

... perhaps NOT ... ... in the event, I'd probably myself and [it] "sewer" would STINK!