Man Electrocuted To Death In Tractor

[MossRoad]

Here's a link to a Rochester TV station report that it happened around 3:30 in the morning and that he borrowed the tractor.

 

[Rara Avis]

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

On top of that, the daughter is going to be close to destitute, because the insurance companies are going to empty his estate to pay for the damaged tractors...

 

[WALT]

TBN'ers:

I've been a firefighter for approx. 30 years. One thing I can tell you is that live electricity is going to find a source to ground. If you are that source, you are dead. In my time, I have responded to numerous calls as the tragic story referenced, and we secure the area, then wait for the local power company.
Many property owners has questioned why no action is being taken, but they have no idea that until the electrical current is disconnected, few if any actions can be taken by us.
If common sense was common, I would be out of a job.

WALT

 

[jsborn]

As a Veteran of 36 years of a power company I can tell you his daughter should not be destitute. If the lines where on the ground or close to it as it seem and some form of protection device IE a fuse or circuit breaker did not de-engerize the line then I smell LAWER. And yes even if the boy was at fault for hitting the pole and yes even if he did screw up by touching the downed line in most cases the jury will side for the injured over the company.

Still a tragic accident and YES STAY AWAY FROM POWER LINES !!!!

 

[johnray13]

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.

I must admit, my first thought was that he had to have been intoxicated.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I must admit, my first thought was that he had to have been intoxicated.

I'm with you. Actually, My first thought was "Oh how sad." My second thought was "He had to have been intoxicated."

Like Walt, I get to respond to accidents. Invariably when the tones go off between 1:00 am and 6:00 am it's either somebody's grandma/grandpa with health issues or someone's been drinking.

Here's why this is relevant: We can all sit in our armchairs talking about how stupid it is to go around live power lines (which it is), but people who are intoxicated willingly do things that they know are stupid.

Most of this is purely academic since we have no "official" info on whether he was drinking or not. The lesson still stands, though.

I'm just glad he only killed himself. Otherwise there would be more than one little kid growing up without a parent.

 

[N80]

I can't help but think of the lyrics of a song by the B*tthole Surfers (sorry, I didn't make up the name) called Pepper:

"They were all in love with dying they were drinkin' from a fountian
That is pouring like an avalance coming down the mountian

Some will die in hot pursuit and firey auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountian
That is pouring like and avalance coming down the mountian"

This guy just reminds me of someone who is determined to die. Its one thing to make a single fatal mistake, it can happen to anyone. Then there are the Darwin Award winners who have a pattern of bad decisions. But his guy made three or four 'fatal' mistakes in a row, he just managed to defeat the first two or three...just not the last. Folks like this seem to be "in love with dying" and for those folks alcohol is just the aphrodisiac.

Note: As mentioned before, all of this is pure speculation. There is a reasonable chance I'm totally wrong about this.