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Satanica

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http://www.wxyz.com/news/dte-energy-employee-robbed-at-gunpoint-on-detroits-west-side
DETROIT (WXYZ) - A DTE Energy worker was robbed at gunpoint early this morning as he was guarding a live wire on Detroit's west side.

The company says the incident happened around 3:30 a.m. on Howell Street near the intersection of Livernois and Joy.

According to the company’s chief security officer, the employee had $2 when they were robbed. They’re offering $1,000 to the person who turns the criminal in.

Michael Lynch, DTE Energy’s Chief Security Officer, told 7 Action News that the person guarding that wire was a desk employee pushed into duty because of the number of outages across the area.

“Moms and dads, sons and daughters that work desk jobs and so forth — these are the workers we deploy to keep the public safe from live wires,” said Lynch.

According to Lynch, the wire could have electrocuted the thief had they touched it. The worker was there to keep people safe, but because of the theft they had to back their crews out of the area delaying the process of restoring energy to the area.
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Shoulda offered the perp 20 dollars to hold the wire.
Mental midget would have likely jumped at the chance...
then jerked, sizzled, popped, jitterbugged and cried out hilariously in a death twitch.
 
According to Lynch, the wire could have electrocuted the thief had they touched it.

That would've taken care of that problem entirely.

Hope the fuckwad gets caught. If nothing else, to have to world laugh at his ass for only getting 2 bucks and prison time. Hope that snickers bar was worth it.
 
Anyone else think the saddest part of this story is a DTE lineman only had $2 dollars on him?
 
Shocking the victim didn't get shot to death when the robber found out how little money he had.

I always carry at least 20-30 dollars in cash, figure it should be just enough to appease a thug robber just enough to where they won't angrily swiss cheese my law abiding ass.
 
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