Sunday, March 30, 2008
Two Men Electrocuted In Boone County.
Copper theft is on the rise as the price for the metal continues to soar. A father and son from Boone County paid the ultimate price this weekend when they broke into a AEP substation. They paid with their lives. The two men were electrocuted in their attempt to steal copper.
Boone County Sheriff Rodney Miller has not released the identity of the victims.
Eyewitnesses said that they heard the father yelling and screaming for someone to help his son. They said that they tried to coax the father to come out. Onlookers say that he screamed he was sick of this then he touched a wire.
450 homes in the Printer community were out of power for a few hours.
Boone County Sheriff Rodney Miller has not released the identity of the victims.
Eyewitnesses said that they heard the father yelling and screaming for someone to help his son. They said that they tried to coax the father to come out. Onlookers say that he screamed he was sick of this then he touched a wire.
450 homes in the Printer community were out of power for a few hours.
# posted by Joe Kinzer @ 6:24 AM 
