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		Thieves manage to steal 41 lightning rods without any resistance (wrcbtv.com)		41
		More: Stupid, Athens-Clarke County, lightning rods, parking deck

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dahmers love zombie		2012-12-21 10:48:35 AM

If they're caught, they'll be jailed faraday or two, that's for sure.

Pud		2012-12-21 10:56:19 AM

Shocking

Nothing To See Here		2012-12-21 11:17:13 AM

They were seen taking off in their Electric Boogaloo

Tax Boy		2012-12-21 11:17:58 AM

Looks like it's going to be a Happy Festivus for 41 families that otherwise couldn't afford poles.

phrawgh		2012-12-21 11:18:10 AM

Why do churches need lightning rods?

Honest Bender		2012-12-21 11:19:25 AM

Ohm my Glob! What would induce someone to commit a crime of this amplitude? I hope charges are brought.

KrispyKritter		2012-12-21 11:20:35 AM

phrawgh: Why do churches need lightning rods?

Christians

You Must Construct Additional Pylons.		2012-12-21 11:22:10 AM

Ohm my God.

This story has me all amped up.

mutterfark		2012-12-21 11:22:33 AM

Damn Zeusians.

Queensowntalia		2012-12-21 11:22:39 AM

Forgive them, for they know not watt they do.

Bith Set Me Up		2012-12-21 11:23:05 AM

It's just for a little weather experiment.

mainstreet62		2012-12-21 11:28:03 AM

I bet the music of choice by the thieves was by AC/DC.

TheHappyCanadian		2012-12-21 11:28:22 AM

from the ones I've seen, the lightning rods are literally a sharpened 5/8" rod of copper about two feet long. very easy to scrap at a recycler without getting asked too many questions, unlike showing up with a truckload of fire hydrants or manhole covers

Grapple		2012-12-21 11:28:37 AM

I find this story revolting.

uncleacid		2012-12-21 11:31:38 AM

I hope they didn't take the copper clappers.

A Shambling Mound		2012-12-21 11:33:21 AM

As always, Fark keeps me abreast of current news.

Cyclometh		2012-12-21 11:35:06 AM

Ohm man, subby. Nothing impedes you people from electrical puns, does it? Fark seems to have a hell of a capacitance for this kind of silliness, or maybe just very low reactance to it. I mean, watt the hell, it's not like this isn't the umpteenth time we've done this.

I guess it was time for an inductance of new farkers into the tradition anyway, huh? Puns are apparently Fark's crown joules.

Cyclometh		2012-12-21 11:35:46 AM

Oh good, they've changed the way you do markup. Goddamit, Fark. Knock that shiat off.

tricycleracer		2012-12-21 11:37:39 AM

He's got potential.

Lord Farkwad		2012-12-21 11:38:40 AM

Ohms for the poor squirrel.
s12.postimage.org

Lumbar Puncture		2012-12-21 11:40:44 AM

Sounds like someone is going to open a cruciform removal service.

zulius		2012-12-21 11:42:31 AM

Cyclometh: Ohm man, subby. Nothing impedes you people from electrical puns, does it? Fark seems to have a hell of a capacitance for this kind of silliness, or maybe just very low reactance to it. I mean, watt the hell, it's not like this isn't the umpteenth time we've done this.

I guess it was time for an inductance of new farkers into the tradition anyway, huh? Puns are apparently Fark's crown joules.

Would you prefer a Reddit circle jerk or is that too conductive?

KrispyKritter		2012-12-21 11:44:59 AM

hotrink

thenooch		2012-12-21 11:45:43 AM

TheHappyCanadian: from the ones I've seen, the lightning rods are literally a sharpened 5/8" rod of copper about two feet long. very easy to scrap at a recycler without getting asked too many questions, unlike showing up with a truckload of fire hydrants or manhole covers

Copper coated.

/used to work at scrap yard

Cyclometh		2012-12-21 11:49:54 AM

zulius: Cyclometh: Ohm man, subby. Nothing impedes you people from electrical puns, does it? Fark seems to have a hell of a capacitance for this kind of silliness, or maybe just very low reactance to it. I mean, watt the hell, it's not like this isn't the umpteenth time we've done this.

I guess it was time for an inductance of new farkers into the tradition anyway, huh? Puns are apparently Fark's crown joules.

Would you prefer a Reddit circle jerk or is that too conductive?

Fark is a lot more insular than reddit. I think we tend to be more grounded here.

TheHappyCanadian		2012-12-21 12:01:08 PM

thenooch: TheHappyCanadian: from the ones I've seen, the lightning rods are literally a sharpened 5/8" rod of copper about two feet long. very easy to scrap at a recycler without getting asked too many questions, unlike showing up with a truckload of fire hydrants or manhole covers

Copper coated.

/used to work at scrap yard

really? the ones I saw were on the roof of a hospital and had copper lugs, with 4-gauge braided copper cable running the perimeter of the roof. I just assumed the rods were solid copper as well.

also, I hate scrap metal scabbers. have had my welding ground wires stolen several times, as well as aluminum ladders and even had aluminum window frames stolen off my truck. Still not as bad as the meth-addicts in Vancouver who have been stealing cast-iron catch basin grates lately... hope your broken back was worth the $14, loser.

Tax Boy		2012-12-21 12:48:30 PM

41 lightning rods

that's more than 4 tens. and that's terrible.

Nothing To See Here		2012-12-21 12:57:41 PM

Hey Lou, you might want to follow up on Doomsday Meteorologists prepping.

/fine police work

Resident Muslim		2012-12-21 01:06:59 PM

DoctorCal		2012-12-21 01:17:17 PM

Resident Muslim: e

You've got potential.

Uchiha_Cycliste		2012-12-21 02:22:57 PM

Damn you Percy Jackson.

theorellior		2012-12-21 02:49:18 PM

When nobody was looking, Texx Tweaker took forty-one lightning rods. 41 lightning rods! That's as many as four tens plus one. And that's terrible.

Zombie Butler		2012-12-21 04:28:31 PM

DoctorCal: Resident Muslim: e

You've got potential.

However there is also some resistance. I just hope he's amped enough to break through.This is Faraday though and he just might and follow a hero's arc.

Id hate to breaker it to the rest of fark if he fails. I know in my heart he has the capacitance for it though.

buckler		2012-12-21 05:16:54 PM

Sounds like grounds for punishment.

phrawgh		2012-12-21 05:35:56 PM

I hope the victims have the capacity to forgive.

SwiftFox		2012-12-21 06:44:19 PM

phrawgh: Why do churches need lightning rods?

Their steeples stick up farther than other buildings.

Lightning was thought a tool of the devil used for speifically burning down churches before they figured that out.

Resident Muslim		2012-12-21 06:56:17 PM

Zombie Butler: DoctorCal: Resident Muslim: e

You've got potential.

However there is also some resistance. I just hope he's amped enough to break through.This is Faraday though and he just might and follow a hero's arc.

Id hate to breaker it to the rest of fark if he fails. I know in my heart he has the capacitance for it though.

Don't worry.
I have been trained well.

I will follow the path of least resistance.

phrawgh		2012-12-21 08:14:50 PM

SwiftFox: phrawgh: Why do churches need lightning rods?

Their steeples stick up farther than other buildings.

Lightning was thought a tool of the devil used for speifically burning down churches before they figured that out.

Who are the "they" that figured it out? Surely not the church folk. They fought against lightning rods bitterly.

Lightning and Enlightenment - Ben Franklin and the Lightning Rod

THE HERETICAL WISDOM OF THE INVENTOR OF THE LIGHTNING ROD
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
Original sin is as ridiculous as imputed righteousness.
As to Jesus, I have some doubt as to his divinity."
- Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Benjamin Franklin: His Wit, Wisdom, and Women by Seymour Stanton Block

SwiftFox		2012-12-21 08:28:21 PM

phrawgh: SwiftFox: phrawgh: Why do churches need lightning rods?

Their steeples stick up farther than other buildings.

Lightning was thought a tool of the devil used for speifically burning down churches before they figured that out.

Who are the "they" that figured it out? Surely not the church folk. They fought against lightning rods bitterly.

Lightning and Enlightenment - Ben Franklin and the Lightning Rod

THE HERETICAL WISDOM OF THE INVENTOR OF THE LIGHTNING ROD
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
Original sin is as ridiculous as imputed righteousness.
As to Jesus, I have some doubt as to his divinity."
- Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Benjamin Franklin: His Wit, Wisdom, and Women by Seymour Stanton Block

We figured it out eventually, didn't we?

phrawgh		2012-12-21 09:06:55 PM

SwiftFox: We figured it out eventually, didn't we?

There's the problem. Right there.

SwiftFox		2012-12-21 09:28:24 PM

phrawgh: SwiftFox: We figured it out eventually, didn't we?

There's the problem. Right there.

Actually it was Ben Franklin's invention of fire insurance that guaranteed the churches would fold sooner or later, so they could buy some. Now that was almost sinister.

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