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Plumber truck nearly climbs utility pole

[Updated March 8] It’s the type of scene makes you ask: How’d they do that?

Today, sheriff’s deputies in Stafford County found a work truck leaning on a wire at 77 Forest Lane, about two miles from a Walmart in the Washington Square shopping plaza near Fredericksburg.

The driver, a plumber, suffered injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening, police said.

It’s unclear how the truck got up a wire attached to a telephone pole.

The sheriff’s deputy did not press charges against the driver.