I'm with you Greg.
The SECOND you pulled the meter -- to stop further arc'ing -- it was time to call the Poco.
BTW, why remove C/Bs when you can just turn them off? Plainly, they didn't know what they were doing.
These clowns talk a big story... and then kill any professional credibility by doing stuff that no licensed contractor would begin to consider.
Everything about this travail makes one think that something naughty was going on... probably unlicensed contracting and zero building permits.
The debacle perhaps threatened their larger game... so they tried to make it go away.
That's my guess. As to why they up-loaded this folly to the Web? Who can say? Maybe they were high at the time. ( of the up-load) Maybe this is the best work they've ever done. Maybe this is their idea of a promotional piece for cheap-skate property mis-management.
My pet peeve with cheap-skates is that they talk or con the young and foolish into taking great risks -- pitching the notion to the naive that such antics are pulled off successfully all of the time. The young kid/ adult ends up in the morgue or the hospital.
Any Poco is going to assign demerits to anyone associated with the above 'project.'
There is not one Poco in the nation that wants untrained civilians (and that's what these fellows are) messing around with Service conductors. It's a universal taboo.
(Any uninformed party trained by yet other uninformed/trained parties remain untrained, unprofessional, and at hazard.
Heck, you can't even use just any old j-man to train apprentices as it is. Teaching the craft is a separate skill in its own right.)
