An employee of NYC's Transit Authority maintenance division stole some welding equipment from the work yard. The equipment didn't fit into his personal car, so the yahoo stole one of those BIG trucks with a boom on the back to transport the equipment. He dropped the equipment off in his home driveway, a few miles away from the work yard. As he was driving the truck back, the boom (in the back of the truck) went up and he ended up tearing down miles of power lines, trees, traffic signals and knocking down power poles.
Over 5,000 people were without power for up to 12 hours and many said that this guy caused more damage than last year's hurricane.
