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by CompleteWalker 1251 days ago
Similar shooting at a substation in a neighboring county happened a few days ago https://www.npr.org/2023/01/18/1149694402/another-north-caro...
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I wonder if it's just a crank. Like a guy that got fired from the power company vs some ideological motivation.
Or copycat. People are fired from power companies all the time but how often do they damage equipment? I don't actually know but you'd think we'd hear about these attacks more.
Whilst uncommon, employee attacks aren't unheard of in any industry - or particularly unusual. The phrase 'going postal' originates in a period of time where being a postal worker was particularly stressful, causing many such incidents against management; but such attacks are background noise in most industries.