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Don't forget the snails and slugs too, they love pillars and transformers.

I wonder if they feel a feel a tingle when too close near a bare terminal.

to djk.
These pillars are used for disconnect power as well.

to Trumy.
The security key is a joke , here in Auckland they are a M6 hex imbus srew which you can undo with a pair of side cutters.

I will take a piccie of these "security srews"

Ray,
Well that's the beauty of having live 230 or 400V (depending upon how clumsy you are) metal as a deterrent inside an enclosure that is meant for access by authorised people only.
But I'm disappointed though, our pillar boxes don't have any of that flash Auckland cardboard in them, any way you could see to send us poor folks down here some?.

Trumpy, those telephone junction boxes in your picture have a single steel screw holding the cover on and once its rusted you can just lift the cover right off. They are crap !

Our telephone junctions are usually in an underground "vault". They look like round black torpedos.

Anything over-ground is either up a pole or in a cabnet.

However, some of the pole-mounted junctions have been known to open up in bad weather e.g. when hit by near-by trees and leave the telephone cable terminals exposed to the weather )