-Idiot Story- 1
Daniel and his friend were practicing their marksmanship by shooting at
targets in a farm field. But instead of the usual choices of mice,
bottles, or birds, they selected a more worthy adversary: electrical
insulators.
These pear-shaped glass or plastic devices are intended to hold
electrical wires aloft. But after the men shot six insulators off two
utility poles, the shattered targets were no longer up to the job. A
high-voltage wire fell to the ground and Daniel, attempting to prevent a
serious fire, seized the sizzling wire in his hand, and was
electrocuted.
An Allegheny Power spokesman advised people not to shoot at electrical
insulators.
-Idiot Story- 2
Millennia after an evolving human species descended from the trees,
30-year-old Joshua reversed the process, removing himself from the gene
pool while perched in a tree. Joshua had hiked several miles onto a
ranch and climbed a Koa tree under cover of darkness, intent upon
stealing a branch of the expensive native hardwood. To his credit, he
was smarter than a classic cartoon character, and didn't make the
mistake of cutting the branch supporting him. However he was not smart
enough to avoid cutting a branch directly above his head. The severed
branch struck and killed him, and authorities found him still in the
tree, twenty feet off the ground.
Daniel and his friend were practicing their marksmanship by shooting at
targets in a farm field. But instead of the usual choices of mice,
bottles, or birds, they selected a more worthy adversary: electrical
insulators.
These pear-shaped glass or plastic devices are intended to hold
electrical wires aloft. But after the men shot six insulators off two
utility poles, the shattered targets were no longer up to the job. A
high-voltage wire fell to the ground and Daniel, attempting to prevent a
serious fire, seized the sizzling wire in his hand, and was
electrocuted.
An Allegheny Power spokesman advised people not to shoot at electrical
insulators.
-Idiot Story- 2
Millennia after an evolving human species descended from the trees,
30-year-old Joshua reversed the process, removing himself from the gene
pool while perched in a tree. Joshua had hiked several miles onto a
ranch and climbed a Koa tree under cover of darkness, intent upon
stealing a branch of the expensive native hardwood. To his credit, he
was smarter than a classic cartoon character, and didn't make the
mistake of cutting the branch supporting him. However he was not smart
enough to avoid cutting a branch directly above his head. The severed
branch struck and killed him, and authorities found him still in the
tree, twenty feet off the ground.
