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No, they'll blame the meter reader. [Linked Image]
Or POCO linemen doing maintenance on meters.

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Putting a KO cover on some stranger's meter $ .35

Looking around so not to be fined for trespassing $ 500.00

Knowing some kid playing around is NOT going to put his finger inside the meter….

PRICELESS!

God Bless You.

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Walking around an unfinished basement that was being finished. The electricians forgot to nail up a box, so I snatch a hammer out of a toolbox, pound the nails into the stud, and walk away. Oh yeah, I put the hammer back! Don't know why I did it, but I felt well afterwards.


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Sometimes a thing so offends your sensibilities you just to do someting!

Why, just the other day, I was leaving a shopping center when I noticed a switchgear door open. It was hard to miss- it stuck out into the traffic lane! Maybe too hard to miss- some one had "tapped" it just had enough to bend the rod that held it in the 'open' position.
A moment with a pair of pliers, and the door was once again closed- securely this time.

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I have an obsessive compulsive thing about looking over the exposed electrical assembly wherever I go. You would be amazed how many places have recepts with no covers. I have seen that in the kids aisle in clothing stores, waiting rooms, and even in a hardware store.

How many of you guys have had your spouse tell you to stop looking at the conduit on the ceiling of a department store? I also have a habit of checking out my friends new houses to make sure everything is safe and sound. Hmmm? I wonder if that is why I am always getting invited over?

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I constantly look at the electrical wherever I go. I dont know why, but it just interests me. I am sometimes amazed at the ammount of stuff that is just downright wrong.

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I almost always take a good look at the ceiling. I looked up in a recently completed addition of our church last week and noticed the key still in the test circuit switch for the fire alarm. Maybe not a killer but sure an invitation for trouble.

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An interesting point here gentlemen: If you see a hazard, say an open cover, and report it to the owner/person responsible, and there is a subsequent accident/fire; - Are they still covered by their insurance if they take no remedial action? Are they culpable of a reckless act and liable to criminal procedings in the event of subsequent injury or death as a "act of omission" if they do nothing?
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How many of you guys have had your spouse tell you to stop looking at the conduit on the ceiling of a department store?


Oh, yes...You're not alone.
This_Thread identifed the syndrome, but we never came up with a cure for the "Electrician's Disease" that runs rampant through our members.

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Good point there. It must be over a year ago that I reported a missing cover on a streetlight in a nearby town to the works dept. of the borough council. I had no acknowledgment of my e-mail, and the cover was still missing when I went back some time later.

Haven't been down that way for months, but for all I know it might still be the same. [Linked Image]

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