Guns, Bows, Shooting Sports, and Hunting Bear electrocuted digging up electrical box???

[WCPoe]

A friend sent an email with photos of a bear which was electrocuted when he dug up an electrical box. Any one know if this is for real?

 

[WCPoe]

More photos of the bear. Even a photo where the bear's paw grounded out on the soil. It looks real enough but I'm always a bit skeptical someone stages these types of things

 

[Dl5treez]

August 10, 2006

Anchorage, Alaska.



It happened. The bear bit into a 5kV ground line after pulling the top off a utility box.



snopes.com: Electrocuted Bear

 

[KFranco]

Thanks for the pics. Hard to believe what would attract a bear to want to bite into electrical lines.

 

[PToombs]

Maybe he just wanted to get juiced before the party started? :-laf

 

[ChrisOlson]

Maybe he just wanted to get juiced before the party started? :-laf

har har har

that there was funny i do not care who you are

 

[KFranco]

har har har

that there was funny i do not care who you are

Ditto... to bad he missed the party though.

 

[Curious Dave]

Smokey the Bear... ...

 

[Curious Dave]

I wonder if there was a hive in the box and he thought the wire was a straw?

 

[GMike]

Could be he thought it was a cooler... .

 

[WCPoe]

Could be he thought it was a cooler... .

That's a great theory. Those creatures quickly learn the rewards of the coolers left out in the open.

 

[radcam]

My parents had a bear on their property that would dig up the water line from the spring to the house every so often. After about the fourth time my dad quite burying the pipe and left it on top of the ground, and the bear left it alone from then on. She still likes to take the lid off the water storage tank from time to time though.



Bears are curious animals, and they are powerful enuff, and smart enuff that they can pretty much check out what ever they want.

 

[Radshooter]

My parents had a bear on their property that would dig up the water line from the spring to the house every so often. After about the fourth time my dad quite burying the pipe and left it on top of the ground, and the bear left it alone from then on. She still likes to take the lid off the water storage tank from time to time though.

Bears are curious animals, and they are powerful enuff, and smart enuff that they can pretty much check out what ever they want.

Could it be that the bear heard the water moving through the pipe and thought it was rodents in underground tunnels? Maybe it thought it was digging up mice for a snack??? I know my dog hears moles underground and tries to dig or pounce on them to get to them.

 

[Gene Heck]

The one with the bear is for real, it went around a few years ago as I remember as a DuPont safety reminder slide presentation.



I have a real good one of a guy that broke into a substation to rip off some wire but I can't get it to upload. It's in a powerpoint format, (. pps) and I don't know how to get it to load here. If anyone can tell me how to I will load it. It's pretty graphic.

 

[BrianJ]

Open it in powerpoint and save it as a .jpg or . bmp file, then upload via photobucket or other host of your choosing.

 

[Yo Hoot]

Here are the files...





Powerpoint



Movie

 

[omlambu]

On my resume I listed knowledge of 110VAC, 240VAC and 480VAC 3 phase. I was asked during an interview what I knew about 480. My response was don't touch it. Sometimes I hate working so close to it.