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Best wishes for a speedy recovery to the Charter employee.
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| | | | Re: Man Well they caught the guy a few blocks away so he wasn't that good. | |
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Roswell, GA | Re: Man - Geek Gone Bad Clearly a case of a "geek gone bad" - after all, wouldn't we all really like to have a bucket truck of our own parked in the driveway ? Imagine the fun you could have - changing your transformer tap so that your Christmas lights have that "little something extra", making all of your neighbors phone lines available to your Asterisk PBX, filling all of the local red light cameras with urethane foam ? | |
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| | | Re: Throw the book at them said by Matt:I hope they catch the knucklehead and put them in jail for attempted murder. "But but but, he was a good kid." 
I get so sick and tired of hearing that from the family of convicted criminals with lengthy records.
The idiot who stole the truck should be dragged behind the truck he stole. | |
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kudos:1 | Wow.... Attempted murder anyone? I can't believe that the person who took the truck, didn't see the tech in the basket, I mean, how could one possibly miss them? | |
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kudos:3 | Re: Wow.... Perhaps he did see them and took the truck anyway. Make that aggrivated attempted murder. | |
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|  hdmanFlt RiderPremium
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I do hope the worker recovers, and I am not making light of the situation, but man, around here, Charter blows.... | |
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| Re: Wow.... On the serious side, I agree, these dopes do need the book thrown at them. WHO in their right mind would steal a truck while the basket is extended? Doesn't that make the getaway rather difficult?
The one question I have is, did they hotwire the vehicle, in which case, how could the tech not see them? Or...if they didn't hotwire, why were the keys in the ignition? No, they don't need to be there to run the basket...trust me. | |
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Wow.... said by hdman: why were the keys in the ignition? No, they don't need to be there to run the basket...trust me. Depending on the truck, yes they do.
The buckets are usually on hydralic lifts, run by a hydralic pump turned by the engine, which needs to be on. Often the buckets have a remote start/stop feature for the engine but it can be disabled from the cab with the flip of a switch or just taking off the parking break in most cases.
They often also have electric backup motors, but those are usually for emergency use.
At least thats in the more than dozen utility bucket trucks I've used in the last 5 years... | |
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| | | | | | | | | said by hdman:On the serious side, I agree, these dopes do need the book thrown at them. WHO in their right mind would steal a truck while the basket is extended? Doesn't that make the getaway rather difficult? The one question I have is, did they hotwire the vehicle, in which case, how could the tech not see them? Or...if they didn't hotwire, why were the keys in the ignition? No, they don't need to be there to run the basket...trust me. That's an easy getaway. Just drive under a bridge. If you are reckless enough to drive the poor charter employee through the power lines, you may as well smash him into a bridge.
I know we all get angry at our ISPs sometimes, but I sense a little repressed anger here. | |
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| Re: Wow.... He probably was belted, but when the truck started moving and the basket started banging into stuff, he may have decided to jump for it rather than get caught in some live power lines, smashed into a bridge/sign/tree and enveloped in the twisted jagged metal that was the cage.
Or the guy was retarded and didnt have his saftely harness in use.
The summary also says it was a carjacking, which to me means there was someone in the cab and they were forced out.
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| Re: Wow.... said by Diddy1:Most trucks, unless running on emergency electric pumps, are "running" for the booms to work. That's probably the other reason it was easy to swipe. The motor to generate electricity for the boom. If that's what he had to do to make the boom work, then yea smash and drive was easy cause the keys were in it already.
That still doesn't excuse the jack off that stole the truck. At bare minimum he should be charged with attempted murder cause if the guy was up in the air the only things up there are cable, phone, fiber and power lines. If the tech dies it should be murder at that point.
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|  pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by Cheese:Attempted murder anyone? I can't believe that the person who took the truck, didn't see the tech in the basket, I mean, how could one possibly miss them? Usually criminals do not factor in the welfare of their victims when they go to commit a crime.
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kudos:70 | Re: Wow.... That's right cause the car bounced the curb when he did that too.
I think most of STL agreed he was a letdown for all of us here in STL. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Wow.... said by Synon29:They probably saw the person in the basket and it didn't matter to them =( I work for a cable company and I couldn't imagine something like that happening it's terrible ;(. That was kind of my point, if they knew the person was in the basket, which I couldn't image they wouldn't, they are willingly putting that persons life in danger and in fact, it did become dangerous and the person is now in serious condition due to someone who felt the need to steal a cable company truck. | |
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| | | | | Re: Wow.... said by Cheese:said by Synon29:They probably saw the person in the basket and it didn't matter to them =( I work for a cable company and I couldn't imagine something like that happening it's terrible ;(. That was kind of my point, if they knew the person was in the basket, which I couldn't image they wouldn't, they are willingly putting that persons life in danger and in fact, it did become dangerous and the person is now in serious condition due to someone who felt the need to steal a cable company truck. They'll get some ambulance chaser lawyer who will argue their "client" didn't see the person up in the bucket...they'll also say they're a "good" person who made a bad decision.
Chances are this scumbag is a career criminal with a long record who shouldn't be on the streets anyway. | |
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join:2002-04-30
Brooklyn, NY | Horrible There's no way the thief didn't know someone was in the basket. It was elevated for crying out loud! Common sense would indicate that, most likely, someone's in the basket if it's elevated.
People truly have no natural affection these days... ...sad.
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| Curious as to the perps reason Why steal a truck with the basket extended?
Unless the fool was high on drugs, they should have realized that:
a) Stealing a truck with the basket extended would make you very visable.
b) An extended basket makes for a very large hook onto anything elevated.
c) After getting to their destination, how the heck did they think they were going to get away from the truck they took without getting noticed?
The mind boggles
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The suspect initially approached another Charter employee who was on the ground during the cable repair project at about 2 a.m. Tuesday near Washington Boulevard and El Sereno Avenue, Hettema said. The suspect asked to use the man's cell phone and soon after jumped into the truck's cab and took off, Hettema said.
He drove about a block before striking the tree that flung the other charter employee to the street. He kept driving, severing a number of trees and cable lines before he was stopped by police nearly four blocks later, Hettema said.
It also kind of explains why the truck had the key in it, because their was someone else on the ground. | |
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|  IT GuyOw, My BallsPremium
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Stepford, CA | Slow Day Wow. This is the dumbest story written evah. Things must have been really sssssslllllow for Karl. What does a boosted company truck with an employee in the cherry picker and the company's BK court filing have to do with broadband? All this story did was provide a topic so one half of the peanut gallery could argue with the other half over who is and is not a moron. Talk about appealing to the lowest common denominator.
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But I do have to agree at some point. why mention the BK court filing with this story??? kinda makes the story sound like....
charter employee in critical condion and may die.....but now on to the important news... we had a favoable BK court hearing today YEEEAAHHH....
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Glendale, CA | Gah I feel sorry for the poor guy in the truck who fell 20 feet to the ground. I hope he makes a quick recovery.
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| Re: Oh no! Full story is here, and yes, the perp was arrested....
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| | | Re: Ack I'm surprised there isn't a required interlock to prevent releasing the brake and to prevent taking it out of park when the basket is extended. | |
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kudos:5 | Carjacking? Sounds like a truckjacking, probably will be released on a technicality.
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join:2007-01-20 | Who's hijacking who? I'm wondering why Charter would have someone hijack their truck...?
Or did Karl mean to say "Someone hijacked a Charter truck..."?
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| On the ground Shouldn't there be another person on the ground when someone is in the bucket? It's not like trucks with the boom up are hijacked every day, but there are a lot of other things that could go wrong that a person on the ground would be able to assist in. | |
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