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The Darwin Award that Wasn’t
Gregory Dean Renfroe tried, he really did. When the 44-year-old learned that his power had been cut off because he was two months behind on his bill payments, he did what any red-blooded Floridian would do - he climbed the pole to his power lines and tried to reconnect things on his own. A neighbor happened to spot Renfroe and flagged down a deputy, who says that Renfroe was “standing on the power lines tearing industrial electrical tape from power units and pulling power lines from their original positions.”
A Florida Power and Light representative said this could’ve been “near fatal” for Renfroe if he had actually managed to make a wire connection. But instead of being “near dead,” he’s just facing a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief.
(For those not in the know, the wonderful Darwin Awards are annual awards “honoring those who improve the species…by accidentally removing themselves from it!”)
Comments
you people need to get better definitions!!!!!!
Posted by tyler | April 18, 2007 5:58 PM