A pair of thieves met a nasty end while attempting to steal copper wire from a public lighting substation in Detroit, Michigan.
The two men were electrocuted by 24,000 volts of electricity during the theft. “It’s very gruesome – very, very gruesome,” said Capt. Kyra Joy Hope of the Detroit Police Department. “Suspects trying to attempt to steal copper from the location, touched the transformer which knocked it out and subsequently to their demise,” she explained to Fox 2 News.
Medical examiners believe the men died instantaneously when they touched the transformer. Their bodies were badly burned and fused together when they were discovered last Friday.
“If you’re down, out on your luck in any kind of way, reach out to your neighborhood police officers. We have neighborhood police officers who have a resource of information for people, jobs available. We have social workers inside of our precincts now,” Hope said, hoping tragedies like this can be avoided in the future.
Investigators are still struggling to identify the bodies of the two thieves.