This one is odd. I was walking downtown and noticed an odd pair of decorative street lights. They are about 15 feet tall, with an acorn bulb on top. Usually, the electric service is from underground, but this pair had a wire run from one to the other (about 40 feet). I looked up and saw that some sort of device had been, um, attached with electrical tape to one pole, and a wire run from the other one to the device. The device was connected with open splices. What on Earth happened here? I sure hope this wiring doesn't have 277 volts in it.

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