Things Your Mother Should Have Taught You: Don't Pee on an Electric Transformer

A UK man was sentenced to a year in prison after he and an accomplice tried to rob a power station, only to suffer severe, life-threatening injuries after urinating on an electric transformer.

36-year-old Michael Harper of Leicester, England, suffered serious burns after making the mistake of unzipping and hosing down an electrical transformer, which promptly exploded, knocking out power to thousands of local residents and causing more than $50,000 in damages. Apparently, Harper and the accomplice had broken into the substation to steal scrap metal to sell to finance their heroin habit.

Harper's kind accomplice, Richard Boyce, 50, promptly left the seriously-injured man behind to fend for himself, but was later arrested by police officers, with severe burns to his own hands. An English judge sentenced Boyce to four years in jail, but reduced Harper's sentence to one year because of his medical ordeal. "You were seriously injured and very nearly lost your life, and will be permanently disfigured," he told Harper at his sentencing.

Idiots, Murderers & Bears! Oh, My! Man Planned to Kill Ex-Girlfriend Dressed in Bear Hide

An Upstate New York man has been arrested for conspiracy to commit murder by hiring an acquaintance to off his ex-girlfriend... dressed up in a bear skin! When the man, Carl Garner, discovered that killing a bear and skinning it isn't as easy as it sounded, he approached a friend to see if he would run over his ex with his car and if that didn't work, to slash her throat with a piece of glass. The would-be murderer was skimpy with the money though, only handing over $500 to the pal to commit the deed. The former pal wasn't impressed with the money offered, so he went to the police and turned the guy in!

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Man plots to kill ex dressed as a bear!