Man Electrocuted To Death In Tractor

[SkyPup]

Here is the written story, click on the video to see the melted tractor:

R News: As It Happens, Where It Happens

Neighbor, James Salerno, saw most of what was going on though his living room window.

"He had had an accident it looked like he slid sideways and hit the pole," Salerno said.

The impact severed the telephone pole leaving the power lines hanging low to the ground.

"The kid should have just gone home and forgot about it and it wouldn't have been that bad you know," Christensen said.

Instead Salerno said Maliborski took a tractor from a nearby farm.

"He took one tractor stalled it and tore the transmission out of it trying to get up to the road," Salerno said.

Maliborski then went back to get a second tractor according neighbors. He was using it to pull his car out when the front loader became entangled in the power lines. The live wires set the tractor on fire. When Maliborski tried to escape he was electrocuted.

"There are a lot of young people being killed or killing themselves or whatever in accidents, but never anything as bizarre as this," Salerno said.

 

[SkyPup]

Moral of Story:

Stealing two tractors does not pay.

 

[Renze]

What if this was your son ??

...or....

what if it was your tractor ?

 

[texasjohn]

Tragic all the way around... 4 year old kid left behind as well.

We forget that in the old days when the west and Texas was being settled that a lot of those folks were under the age of 25... they did foolish things and some got away with it and some did not... no different now.

 

[scott_vt]

Evenin Skypup,
A sad story for sure ! Its too bad someone that actually knew how to operate a tractor wasnt available to help this young fella ! They could have got his car out and the tractors would be none for the worse !

 

[SkyPup]

Basically an extremely simple job gone very bad.

You'd think he would have gotten the message after he destroyed the first tractor and gotten some help.

However, one fact is evident, the victim has no one to blame but himself......

 

[MossRoad]

Moral of Story:

Stealing two tractors does not pay.

It says he took them. But it does not say he didn't have permission to take them. They could not contact the owner of "the tractor".

 

[Rara Avis]

Evenin Skypup,
A sad story for sure ! Its too bad someone that actually knew how to operate a tractor wasnt available to help this young fella ! They could have got his car out and the tractors would be none for the worse !

Actually without Fire/Rescue and the power company being involved...anyone who had tried to help them with their tractor could have ended up the same...DEAD...

Power lines are live...until the power company says they aren't...

 

[N80]

I'm no Sherlock Holmes, but consider some of the things we know:

1. Single car accident at night. Most EMTs and ER docs will tell you chemicals are involved in most of these.

2. Took two tractors. Destroyed both.

3. Messed with live power lines unassisted. You guys ever been around these things? They scream DANGER! STAY AWAY! But not to him.

4. Quote: "His family tells us he was working as a mason and living with his mother when he died. He leaves behind a four-year-old daughter. "

Draw you own conclusions.

Regardless. It's still sad. Especially for the family and whoever lost two tractors.

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

Draw you own conclusions.

My conclusion is a little girl is going to grow up without her father, regardless how careless he was that is what bothers me.