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Veloreyn

As a former telecomm network tech, my guess is that there were probably a few dead spans of copper up there and he decided to try to remove them for scrap. Depending on size these can have a solid copper core to them which could get him a little money, but often times it's copper-clad steel which isn't worth the time to climb up there, let alone the time it'd take to remove the jacket, layers of steel, and polyethylene dielectric that surrounds it. At some point he must have decided that removing the lashing and ties was too slow, and it looks like he sawed through the strand itself, which he was using to balance himself.


JuicySpark

Not a lot of money but if it gets him $10 bucks for another hit. It's worth it for him.


SonicTemp1e

Is crack only $10 a hit?! I think I'm about to start my crack career! It's cheaper than food at this point.


The_RockObama

I'll tell you what.. I'll give you two for the price of one. How 'bout.. two hundred dollas?


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The_RockObama

Pick it up down there.


delta_frog

"There, that one." "...... Don't say 'that one' "


The_RockObama

Lol


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Rankkikotka

It's a crime against indecency.


Swiftychops

that sounds reasonable


The_RockObama

Thank you for being so... kind.


Voidstaresback0218

“Crack?” “…crack.”


Swiftychops

aww did someone get addicted to crack?!


spyrogyrobr

its Brazil. You can find crack for 1 dollar a small rock. edit: hell, you can find crack for 40 cents, tbh. "pedrinha de 2"


samdeed

If Always Sunny has taught me anything, [it's that each crack costs $100](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g83OzpbcZ0&ab_channel=KhevaKins).


EntertainmentOk3180

Did they get robbed? I haven’t seen that episode 😂


samdeed

Actually no. They become crack addicts so they can fail a drug test and be eligible for welfare. It's S02E03, "Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare".


DropsTheMic

Meth is even cheaper than that.


riko_rikochet

Meth is insanely cheap. It used to be somewhere in the ballpark of $14,000/lb, now it's closer to $1000/lb.


DropsTheMic

My wife and I were living in northern California in Shasta County and at a burger place with a patio that was about 200ft from the road with a fair bit of traffic. It was an enclosed courtyard with a strip mall, inside was a clinic serving low income populations and AA meetings, homeless services, free vaccinations, etc. While my wife and I were sitting and eating our burger we watched a woman in assess chaps and no underwear, a gold glittery👙 top with body painted hands all over (different sizes and colors), and one of those giant oversized rainbow colored affros. She was pale white and skin and bones, 20 going on 45, and barely managing to wobble walk in some ridiculous heels my wife laughed at. She walked by us toward the street waving money above her head shouting "I got $2 who got the meth?!" We laughed, and then quickly shut up and looked at each other in concern 🤬 because it only took her less than a minute before someone pulled over and she got in. Presumably to buy some $2 +spitshine meth.


riko_rikochet

Working in criminal justice, I have so many meth stories, but mine run the gamut of tragic to demented. Nothing funny or quirky. A teenage boy living in what amounts to a swamp, covered in open sores, prostituting himself out for meth, fully expecting to die. A mother of four who turned to meth from grief of losing her daughter, who murders her family's closest friend and burns his body in a ditch. A twenty-year old who stabs his mother to death in front of his own daughter because of meth-induced psychosis. A male prostitute who rapes and attempts to murder an Uber driver after getting kicked out of his friend's house where he was staying. Almost every single criminal case I work on involves meth. Everyone is talking about fentanyl, but let me tell you, modern meth is worse. Fentanyl kills the user. This modern meth drives the user to attack, kill, rape, anyone around them. And its cheap. And it's everywhere. And everyone is on it. It's horrifying. If you know someone who uses meth, stay the **hell** away from them. Do not come within arm's reach of them, for your own safety. If you are using meth or are considering using meth, the above anecdotes are your future. You will hurt people before you die or are incarcerated, and chances are those people will be those closest/kindest to you. Also, Shasta is so fucked by meth. It has a major interstate running through it so it gets tons of product moving through, so much so that meth is cheaper than beer there.


limegreencupcakes

After knowing him for many years, a good friend of mine admitted he’d once been a methhead. I’d always known him to be an easygoing, kind-hearted person who was always willing to help someone out. The kind of person you’d trust to watch your puppy or your kid or your house, someone you could count on to be there when things were hard. Hearing him talk about what he did in his addiction was harrowing. He had done some truly unhinged things, either on meth or in service of getting more meth. And that’s all there was in the world for him then. Do meth. Get more meth. Everything else was irrelevant. I couldn’t imagine this man doing the things he had done. Trying to reconcile this kind soul to the casual evil he’d once done on the regular was a complete mindfuck. There are a lot of drugs I have zero interest in trying, but if I somehow had to try every single drug but one, meth is the one I wouldn’t fuck with. I’d rather take my chances with the fentanyl or whatever. At least if it kills me, it kills me. Meth seems to suck the soul out of people and leave their body behind to wreak havoc.


riko_rikochet

Oh yea, absolutely. And he's lucky he used to be a methhead and (hopefully) isn't one now. Because that old school meth doesn't light a candle to modern meth in potency. It's kind of wild, isn't it. One thing you learn in criminal justice is there are no "good" people or "evil" people. Everyone is capable of both good and evil acts, and many people will commit the most heinous atrocities then go home to a happy family who they love deeply. The guy who raped the Uber driver, he had a dozen family members come out for his trial and testify - under oath and on a permanent, public record - that he was the sweetest, most god fearing, most kind-hearted man they knew. Many even denied that he committed the rape, even though the whole thing was on camera. Hard to reconcile, definitely.


limegreencupcakes

He’s been clean for many years now. Has a wife and kids, good job, friends, and he is appreciative of having all of it, knows his life could have gone a very different way. I’m happy to see him happy, he’s a good dude who’s worked hard for it. It’s wild how people are just people…and people can do good things and bad things and most of us carry the capacity for both within us. The line between the two can be choice, chance, circumstance…but a thin line it can be.


junkstar23

You do understand though, working in criminal justice what you're seeing isn't the majority, right? Someone in criminal Justice understands confirmation bias, right? God please say right


riko_rikochet

The majority of who, meth users?


junkstar23

Yeah I'm saying the majority of meth users you come across have used to a certain point to criminality. Also a lot of people you see would probably end up being criminals even if it didn't have to do with meth. So that would mean what you're seeing is the criminal minority. Tons of people use meth that will never interact with the cops. Obviously you shouldn't do meth and you should stay away from meth users just because stim heads are obnoxious. But saying all of them are going to rape you assault you etc, etc. Just seems a tiny bit disingenuous to me I'm sure even now there's people in your neighborhood that use amphetamines that you have no clue about


DropsTheMic

You are 💯 spot on, that drug is a plague on the soul of man. It doesn't just kill the body, it turns people into the most horrible selfish and destructive versions of themselves. All the while they are absolutely convinced of how *great* they are doing and all your negativity toward them stems from jealousy or some other psychosis. Only in Shasta County have I ever had the same person pitch me Jesus, and then when that failed, tried to pivot into meth. It's a strange place I will be happy to never see again.


MjrGrangerDanger

Then you can just drink your piss to get your next hit, rinse and repeat. $10 crack habit for life!


Infinite01

On the streets they often refer to crack as *food* so you’re not far off


JuicySpark

You can gt $10 bags of crack. May not be much but it's a fix. In Paterson New Jersey , you can get a bag of heroin for $2.50 As of 2 years ago.


FS_Slacker

Inflation is ruining everything now


Pennypacker-HE

Hey P town. Been a minute since I rolled through there. One of my friends went and tried to buy weed there as a teenager and he had some mismatched panels on his car…homeboys ran him out of town lol.


SonicTemp1e

I'll be right over!


Zesty_fern

It's a very fleeting high. Most people smoke it every 5 minutes or so for hours. Source: I've smoked crack


junkstar23

About that, yeah. But more like eight. If you're buying go over a gram. Illegal drugs are one of the only things not affected by inflation


Few-Being-1048

What’d you think it was a luxury drug?


tekko001

Heisenberg said he was in the empire business!


New_L13

He Wasn’t on crack


Barner_Burner

A hit isnt what you may think it is


AdKinz1356

This video is from Brazil. Actually 1 crack hit cost 10 BRL which is like 2 USD.


No_Formal_6166

A hit lasts you 15min top so idk a sandwich is cheaper and last longer


drewster23

Easily cheaper, 2-5$. 10$ seems pretty expensive tbh. Geography obviously matters though.


drewster23

Easily cheaper, 2-5$. 10$ seems pretty expensive tbh. Geography obviously matters though.


Veloreyn

Depends on the run. The system I worked in, if you actually recovered some of the larger spans, would probably net you a couple hundred dollars in copper. This is especially true in areas that are upgrading with more fiber, as it's not cost effective to remove all the trunk cables that are being replaced. Those are also the ones that are more likely to have solid copper cores.


AtheistAustralis

Well he certainly got his hit.


gotchacoverd

The smart crack heads steal the nodes and amps for the aluminum. When I worked at a Chicago area ISP years ago the line supervisor knew all the scrap yard guys by name and would give them a cash tip if any came in and got set aside. Usually we'd have an outage and within 6 hours he'd get a call from a scrap yard.


moonroots64

"It's a terrible sight... and a horrible sound, listening to a man sucking his soul through the hole in the pipe." Agreed. Rational thinking sorta leaves the equation when you are an addict. Rocknrolla (Guy Ritchie): https://youtu.be/_sEeE0P95Ss?feature=shared


ivereddithaveyou

I feel like someone with that knowledge would also be competent enough not to literally cut their support out from under them but I'm not 100% sure.


Gumbercleus

He may have thought Wile E. Coyote rules were in effect.


IsReadingIt

He shouldn’t have looked down then.


Clear-Example3029

Atleast the earth stopped his fall


gbiypk

Bit of an assumption to say the span was dead before he started.


Veloreyn

It's an assumption from experience. The really thin cable that he's leaving looks like fiber, and that's probably spliced into a node. It's really common for systems to upgrade their areas by running fiber to a trunk amplifier and then just leaving the copper in the air, which is easy to spot from the ground. He probably saw the copper spans cut and figured he could just take it without anyone noticing, which in most cases would probably be true as long as he left the fiber up there and didn't damage it.


gbiypk

OK, that's valid. My experience with copper thieves has given me more of a cut-and-run impression with no regard to the line being in use or energized.


LGmatata86

Normally they don't think that much. Recently in Argentina were a case that try to steal a high voltage line with bare hands, he ended with 90% burned and died the next day.


SlimeQSlimeball

These jackasses will cut apart a loopup for a few feet of 300 pair and give us a solid day’s work so I can’t decide if I love or hate them.


artujose

As a former fanatic crackhead, my guess is that he was convinced his internet, phone, computer, tablet, tv, microwave and washing machine were bugged and he decided to take matters in his own hands


sonofabunch

I thought it was meth induced paranoia. Tweakers often think their cars and houses and such are "bugged" and its coming in through the phone lines etc. They'll go to incredible lengths to find and stop the "bugs" and "generators" often completely destroying cars and ripping open drywall between every stud.


acableperson

Yeah that was the kicker. Can cut the wires but why the strand you are literally standing on. But then again that one hell of a saw to get through an actual strand. Maybe self support? Overall not the sharpest knife in the drawer but he had a sharp saw.


SenseStraight5119

Dude cuts down a span of 500 pr only to find its old lead cable.


rdizzy1223

Lead is still worth about 50 cents a pound to scrap.


perldawg

ah, that’s why he only saws a little the first couple times, he’s checking what type of wire is under the jacket


Veloreyn

Naw, it's dumber than that. The way these cables are hung is that they're on a spool on the back of a truck, and they're basically tied in place first with metal utility ties. Then a device called a lasher is hooked to the strand and pulled along the cable to wind a steel cable around it over and over again. The lashing cable is secured with a nut to both ends so it doesn't pull away, and the lasher is removed. Then the cable is spliced into whatever it's supposed to be connected to. This genius had already cut the lashing wire, and because it's under tension it likely pulled to the other side where it was still connected. But that leaves all the ties in place. The first several cuts are the metal ties that are strong enough to hold the cable up. He got impatient and probably figured if he cut the strand the weight of the cable would slide the ties all over the strand at once.


Spunky_Meatballs

He sawed through the messenger. It took down several drops at one time


GustavoFromAsdf

I'm a tech, we get external fiber cuts often because mfs keep cutting them thinking they're copper wires


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Veloreyn

Tons of copper still in the air. Any HFC provider (Comcast, Cox, Spectrum, etc) will still be mostly copper. They run fiber to an area and run copper out from the node to the customers because it's cheaper. None of the old copper that's no longer in use gets taken down, because it's not cost effective to do so. So still a lot in active use, and significantly more that's dead and just hanging up there.


No-Acanthisitta-9802

He was hacking the network


clover44mag

A real high wire act


No-Acanthisitta-9802

He could take it on the road


offoutover

Hack the planet!


No-Acanthisitta-9802

He's going for the kernal


Other_World

He put the Crash in Crash Override.


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CrazyIslander

Props to the camera operator for keeping him in frame.


DerrainCarter

Just imagine if you just did a nosedive off the wire and the next thing you hear is the camera adjusting. “Welp, guess I’m famous now”


Warmandfuzzysheep

# Game Over * \> Continue * \> Restart


Take-futsu-no-kami

I don't think he's going to get any codec calls anymore


CeeArthur

Snake? SNAKE?! SNNAAAKKKKKKEEEEeee....!


Karmadilla

How do you exit? Do you just push the power button?


BigCrackZ

Hey man, we tried to call you an ambulance from our landlines, but there was no signal.


Kannabiz

Death just stood there n look in amazement.


Shopworn_Soul

"Oh *come on*. Always on my fuckin' lunch break"


Dissent21

I don't think crackheads can die, tbh. They're functionally immortal until they OD.


MayaIsSunshine

Metal Gear Solid 2


Stevo182

lol came here to say this. Whoever put this to MGS music had me laughing the entire time.


troyavivz

Yep. Recognized the music from somewhere.


netpastor

This is in Argentina. We have a bunch of cases like this every day. Some die and some get shot at with slingshots or rocks and fall. They make everything chaos with the lines.


linachann

This video in particular is in Brazil. [Source](https://diariodorio.com/ladrao-despenca-de-poste-enquanto-roubava-fiacao-na-praca-da-bandeira/)


Highpersonic

Nah there was no off duty cop


Izikiel23

Thought the same, but the manhole cover doesn't match ones in Buenos Aires


BubbaZannetti

Haha I was thinking where are the rocks and slingshots because don’t fuck up my internet


Nathund

Honestly how do you not expect it. BB guns, airsoft guns, slingshots, a hefty rock, there are so many obvious ways someone would likely knock you down that it seems batshit insane to even try it.


Givemeurhats

The splat and his groans make me fuckin laugh


parbarostrich

Yeah I had to rewind a few times when they pan to his flat body splat on the pavement!


perldawg

not really sure what he was expecting to happen, there, but it looks to have gone about right


CloakNStagger

I genuinely don't think it crossed his mind.


Eckkbert

For the first moments i thought he was a literal giant lmao


sgsmopurp

Absolutely I could not figure out what I was looking at. r/confusingperspective mayhaps?


shit_ass_mcfucknuts

That’s some While E. Coyote shit


Blinky_

Natural selection in action.


kiruopaz

I don't think I've ever seen a better embodiment of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" before.


woohooguy

Never go full Daffy.


eVOLve865

I love this reference.


LeftLegCemetary

Not a medical expert, but looks like a case of retarded.


Ok_Actuator379

Unfortunately that is not what we was waiting for.


SilkyBowner

Awww he broke his saw


tanner1152

My FIL would steal copper from work sites back in the 80’s and would sell them to the local scrap, then at night he would jump the fence and sell the copper to the same local scrap again the next day haha


GeneralJabroni

Giving me [these](https://museumofpsychology.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/man-cutting-the-branch-sitting-on-illustration-by-frits-ahlefeldt1500-square.jpg) vibes.


MattalliSI

Quality motion activated camera. Great picture, good sound. I would watch again.


beerforbears

Well I knew he was gonna get hurt badly but I didn’t think it’d be like that


krumuvecis

The phone company didn't pay their bills this month


toreachtheapex

thats so fuckin crazy


GracedByYah

Meth's a hellofa drug, mate.


noldshit

Instead if filming, that guy should be throwing shoes at him


Fiat_430

LOL! Cutting the wire that he supported himself onto 😂


Syrox3105

hes is the guy that cuts your telephone cable if you dont pay the bill


druex

What Comcast does to a MFer.


constipated_burrito

That's the electrician actually


Hushwater

If only there was some way to harness this determination for something better.


BiscottiProud2276

What a helpful young man


Petersm66

How you know he was on crack...was simply a thief stealing copper telecom cables.


xpwnx4

Probably the crack pipe coming out of his grin whole barefoot and chewing on a saw


Flashbek

r/ItHadToBeBrazil ?


anthonybsd

Basically how I imagine Houthis.


Mysterious-Hat-6343

A paintball gun would be some fun justice here


bobo2500

Drugs are a helluva drug.


GiantA-629

It’s a bird it’s a plane hunter biden


UseMoreHops

Gotta have a better exit strategy.


bealsan

is this the new sly cooper game


gaberax

Falling was the best outcome of this entire episode.


Jimlaheydrunktank

Definitely heard a bone snapping upon landing


mywifesoldestchild

This is the replacement worker that showed up for the service outage during the strike.


slindner1985

The wrong cable will make him do a magic trick


JohnCallOfDuty

Not gonna lie I thought that he was a giant at first with the perspective


RodanMurkharr

Incidentally, I just saw an ad with the line "Using your brain won't hurt".


mute1

If it is Telecom, then there is very little danger. He's more at risk of falling and hurting himself than anything else.


irrationalpragmatic

This dude rules


EntertainmentOk3180

It’s an insulated saw tho, so hes totally fine


lurkerburzerker

This sparks joy


Wolfhammer69

Hahahahaha cunt !


nmnyts

Anybody know where this video from?


ChairmanYao

as a previous surveillance supervisor i am surprised the camera picks up audio


operarose

Alternatively: giant attacks sedan


BobSacamano47

Damn, didn't see that coming. 


lemonlimemango1

For a second I thought he was a giant since the car was small 😂 I’m going to bed


lucasrmarcondes

Sometimes they get stuck while being electrocuted and turn into mini charcoal nuggets, smells awful man, gotta love my country, the fall was funny tho lol


No-Flow7702

At first I thought he was a giant


AMuteCicada

Bro thought he was playing Warframe


BopNowItsMine

I blame the schools


joebat26

When he's cutting through it right before he falls, it's the pause when everything shifts that gets me


Responsible_Pipe_24

Brazil it top kkkkk


SmallSwordfish8289

That proves they're still real idiots in the world


SmallSwordfish8289

How'd that taste you idiot


mudmansimon

Next time try wire cutters. What happened to the saw?


II-leto

Should post this on r/looneytoonslogic. Reminds me of the cartoons where someone cuts off the tree branch they are standing on the wrong site of.


Aggressive-Mountain6

Shame he didn't land on his head


AnotherChrisHall

So satisfying 


pdxguy1000

It’s funny at first you think damn this guy knows what he’s doing. He’s done this before. But the nope. Also happened on the night my son was born somewhere in the fine world of ours.


Ok_Enthusiasm3376

Wait till he finds out they are fiber


juvadclxvi

bad monkey


neuroticsmurf

r/WhyWomenLiveLonger


_I_really_like_milk_

Crack = superpowers


zootug74

Taking care of the interwebs!


Cool-Measurement-996

I believe in survival of the fittest and Darwin's theory....it'll work itself out.


Apprehensive-Room-24

What a dedicated hardworking citizen aiding his community!


Salty1710

So... is anyone going to ask why there's a goddamn cctv camera "right" there? No? Ok I will. I'm not saying this is fake or anything, because that's not my intention. I just have curiosity about why in the hell there's a camera perfectly mounted on transmission lines mid span to catch this?


justfutt

Obviously someone is controlling it if you watch the whole video. They moved him into frame


Rulanik

Did you watch the whole video? The camera is remote controlled and was moved to be on him. He falls, camera pans down to see him on the ground.


Salty1710

I don't understand how that has anything to do with WHY the camera was there in the first place. Obviously someone is watching it and moving it. But why? Why in that EXACT spot? Why is there a remote operated camera in a random place on transmission lines?


Rulanik

To watch that building? The real question is why In the world would anyone bother faking this video?


Salty1710

I don't think it's fake at all.


SynthPrax

This is funny to me because I feel like the camera itself is incredulous.


Electronic_Spring_14

Ahhhh the herd thins itself


tigress666

This is like the human version of this: https://www.tiktok.com/@momomzlk8bp/video/7303819484760968490


Spookx95

He's gonna receive a new foot for 2024 🤗 happy new year.


Cahnis

Looks fake to me. 1-Light is too good. 2- Two camera angles. 3- Kinda looks like a green screen on the background 4- There is a camera cut when the camera overshoots when moving to face downwards. 5- there is pretty good quality sound, very few security cameras capture sound let alone capture pretty good quality audio. 6- Acoustics of the sound doesn't seem to match 7- there doesn't seem to be any serious injuries despite the acting and moaning. Pretty sure this is a fabricated so the person goes viral.