{"id":3102,"date":"2009-12-24T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T19:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2010-01-03T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T20:47:12","slug":"and-the-stupidest-criminal-of-the-year-award-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/24\/and-the-stupidest-criminal-of-the-year-award-goes-to\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Stupidest Criminal of the Year Award Goes to…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This guy<\/a>, I guess no one ever warned him about the big blue spark:<\/p>\n

An attempted copper theft at an Eagan substation early Wednesday knocked out power for thousands of residents and sent a would-be thief to Regions Hospital.<\/p>\n

Eagan police said the 33-year-old suspect from St. Paul suffered severe burns but was in stable condition Wednesday and is expected to survive.<\/p>\n

Two other St. Paul residents found near the substation, a 28-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man, were arrested on suspicion of felony criminal damage to property. They were booked at the Eagan Police Department and released.<\/p>\n

Joe Miller, a spokesman for Dakota Electric, said the injured suspect scaled a chain-link fence, cut through the barbed wire at the top and then climbed on top of a transformer, where he was injured when he came into contact with a 69,000-volt transmission line.<\/p>\n

Witnesses reported seeing a flash of light and hearing a boom at the substation before the power went out at about 12:35 a.m. About 7,100 Dakota Electric customers in western and southwestern Eagan were without power until 3 a.m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess his friends will be calling him “Sparky” from now on.<\/p>\n

(H\/T: Ed @ Hot Air<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guy, I guess no one ever warned him about the big blue spark: An attempted copper theft at an Eagan substation early Wednesday knocked out power for thousands of residents and sent a would-be thief to Regions Hospital. Eagan police said the 33-year-old suspect from St. Paul suffered severe burns but was in stable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68],"tags":[942,794,941,940,437],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-crime","tag-copper","tag-crime-doesnt-pay","tag-dakota-electric","tag-eagan","tag-minnesota","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-O2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3034,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/29\/breaking-four-police-officers-shot-near-mcchord-air-force-base-in-parkland-wash\/","url_meta":{"origin":3102,"position":0},"title":"Breaking: Four Police Officers Shot Near McChord Air Force Base in Parkland, Wash.","author":"Jeff","date":"November 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Details are still sketchy, but KING TV in Seattle is reporting that four police officers where shot and killed near McChord Air Force Base in Parkland, Washington: Four police officers have been shot and killed near McChord Air Force Base. 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