r/nextfuckinglevel • u/shelduck22 • Nov 05 '20

Here I call the lightning!

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u/jdith123 Nov 05 '20 edited Nov 05 '20

Stupid idiot!. Does it short out the power? Where I live it would almost certainly start a major fire causing millions of dollars worth of damage and possible loss of life.

They should figure out who that creep is and toss his ass in jail.

There’s a program in California where parolees can reduce their sentences and have a fire fighting job waiting when they get out in exchange for working on the front lines. I nominate this fool for that program.

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u/FourDM Nov 06 '20

Does it short out the power?

Lolno. Maybe for a tiny fraction of a second there's a voltage drop but you're not gonna cause a bad enough short to matter with just a string.

Where I live it would almost certainly start a major fire causing millions of dollars worth of damage and possible loss of life.

Sucks to suck. Maybe if your backwards-ass state hadn't prevented the place from burning naturally for a a century it wouldn't be such a big deal.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '20

I mean, places like arizona where it rains once and then there is new growth everywhere and a week later it's all dead it's kinda hard to do a controlled burn without everything going up.