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Thief Found Dangling, Moaning From PA Power Tower: Reports Thief Found Dangling, Moaning From PA Power Tower: Reports
Thief Found Dangling, Moaning From PA Power Tower: Reports The man found moaning and dangling from a power line tower in Pennsylvania Friday, Nov. 4 was trying to steal wire when he suffered an electric shock so powerful that it threw him from his perch, authorities told various news outlets. The man was cutting 100 feet of wire from the top of a tower that he'd secured himself to in Plainfield Township, when he suffered an arc that traveled across his upper body, throwing him about 20 or 30 feet down the pole, police told WFMZ. Had it not been for the line that the thief used to secure himself, he'd probably be dead, Slate Belt police said. Hunter…

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by Cecilia Levine
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PA Man Strangled By Pet Snake Shot By Police Dies Days Later PA Man Strangled By Pet Snake Shot By Police Dies Days Later
PA Man Strangled By Pet Snake Shot By Police Dies Days Later A Pennsylvania man who was strangled by his pet snake has died days after the incident, authorities said. Elliot Senseman, 27, died from anoxic brain injury due to asphyxiation by constriction after an 18-foot Boa constrictor-type snake wrapped itself around the man's neck inside his Church Street home in Fogelsville (Upper Macungie Township) on Wednesday, July 20, according to the Lehigh County Coroner's Office. The snake completely cut off oxygen to Senseman's brain, the coroner's office said. Officers arrived around 2:10 p.m. to find Senseman in cardiac arrest with the snake still wrapp…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Berks County Boy, 10, Shot, Killed During Target Practice, DA Says Berks County Boy, 10, Shot, Killed During Target Practice, DA Says
Berks County Boy, 10, Shot, Killed During Target Practice, DA Says A 10-year-old Berks County boy was shot and killed during target practice on Thanksgiving Day, authorities said. Responders carried the boy out of the woods to an ambulance after he was shot near his home about 100 feet off Chestnut Street in Hereford Township around 1:30 p.m., they said. He was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest near Allentown, where he was pronounced dead. District Attorney John Adams said the target shooter was “known to the child” and was among those interviewed by State Police as part of an ongoing investigation. An autopsy reportedly was expected to be cond…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Community Rallies For Family Of Ramon Ramirez, Dad Killed In Shooting Spree Community Rallies For Family Of Ramon Ramirez, Dad Killed In Shooting Spree
Community Rallies For Family Of Ramon Ramirez, Dad Killed In Shooting Spree Support is surging on a GoFundMe page for the family of an Allentown man who tragically died in a Lehigh Valley shooting spree early Wednesday morning. More than $21,300 had been raised on a fundraiser as of Friday morning for a 31-year-old dad of three who was killed in an Upper Macungie shooting spree Wednesday morning. The gunman, Za Uk Lian, had shot at two other vehicles before shooting Ramon Ramirez, then running from the scene and turning the gun on himself, police said. Ramirez was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where he was pronounced dead at 5:30 a.m., authorit…

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by Nicole Acosta