NICE!!!!!
Amazing how some people just don't realize what danger they put themselves in doing things like that... Not to mention the danger they put others in as well!!
What did the POCO say when they came to cut the juice off? I hope the General got a good verbal " tune up" or a fine of some kind...

A.D

That looks like a really old meter can. Was this going to be replaced?

Holy bat guano!!! Did anyone else notice he crossed the phases between line and load too?!!

Major Darwin Award to that GC clown. He'd be fired if he ever worked for me.

Stupid, stupid, stupid!!

My parents had a tree fall during an ice storm which ripped down the service cable. It was that twisted stuff. The phase conductors were intact but the neutral snapped.

Power company was swamped for days so I used a car battery jumper cable to bridge the snapped neutral. Used both cables in parallel so the load capacity was more than enough.

Now if it was a phase conductor that was broken I would not have done this.

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Car jumper leads are not even insulated for 120 or 240 Volts anyway.

I wonder if that guy used any proper insulating gloves or some kichen type gloves.

Lucky that no kid stuck its fingers in that meter pan.

My code book just burst into flames....

In an emergency I might do it.... Like grandma's ventilator is offline.
I think it violates that electrical code thingy.....

RSlater
RSmike

Holy Crap......

I hope someone got fined for this.

This looks like one of the stupid things the journeyman I apprenticed under would have tried.

Thankfully you had the power turned off before someone was killed.

I might have known there was a GC involved with this, with only seeing the picture.
"I run the site, you do as you are told on the site, what I say goes on the site, I make the laws and rules on the site"
No Electrician would lower themselves to this level, especially using a redneck thing like LV Jumper leads.

Anyone who takes personalsafteylike this should be cited,fined,and possibly imprisioned. As someone whos dad was killed in a industrial accident this bozo who did this should not even call themselves a GC.

Wow, and I thought I'd seen it all when I found a guy using madison bars to jump out a meter..

Are you talking about the sheet metal wings that are used to hold an old work box in a plaster wall? In this area we call them Madison Straps. Someone was using those to jumper a meter? YOU HAVE SEEN IT ALL!
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Tom Horne

"This alternating current stuff is just a fad. It is much too dangerous for general use." Thomas Alva Edison

Is Doofy moonlighting nowadays?