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Artura J. Cucue: The New Face of Accidental Terrorism?

By Pete Kotz in Stupid Criminals
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 1:12 pm
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​Maybe our biggest safety concern shouldn't be crazed jihadists who believe that killing women and children will somehow win them 72 virgins. The real danger might be idiots like 38-year-old Artura J. Cucue, a homeless man from Louisville, Kentucky...

Police arrested him on the railroad tracks near the University of Louisville trying to steal copper wiring to sell as scrap. He was caught with wire cutters after he attempted to flee officers.

It would seem a petty crime, if not for the damage Cucue could have caused had his caper been successful. Police say he "cut and stole communication lines, affecting train traffic across a multi-state area," according to WDRB-TV. Had the damage gone unnoticed, they believe it may have caused a derailment, creating untold loss of life among both train workers and passengers and nearby residents.

Cucue's been charged with interference with railway communications, wanton endangerment, theft by unlawful taking, possession of burglary tools, fleeing police and criminal trespassing. A judge refused to grant him bond.

But when petty theft has the potential to turn into mass murder, shouldn't there be some sort of statute the addresses the magnitude of the fallout?

Tags: Kentucky, terrorism

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