Darwin Award - Copper gets them again

We have a new award winner. The price of scrap copper has really jumped in the past few years. So, people must steal it. I think this guy even tops the last one I wrote about. I even wrote about one local case here in Gloucester.

Some people are so stupid, you just have to wonder how they live long enough to die bizarrely.

MONTREAL – A would-be thief is dead after breaking into a Hydro-Quebec tower to steal valuable copper wire.

The man in his 40s was electrocuted when he cut the electrical wires atop the tower in the north end of Montreal.

According to city police, such thefts are becoming commonplace with the soaring price of scrap metal, including copper.