Hey, Is This Dangerous?

mickeyco

Just ran into this while walking the dog, it's about a block from my house, we call it the "illegal building" (guess why), didn't see it when I bought my house. Anyhow, we had some bad storms last night, trees everywhere, (family business generator transfer switch didn't work and blew a transformer, damaged the "main frame", 100 + trucks sitting all day today, expensive storm), when I first passed it before I went home to get my camera there were a bunch of kids out playing by it, you can see the lights are still on and one of them is still back there.




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rbsremodeling

absolutely not. I used wires like that as jump ropes when we where young and looked how I turned out

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Magnettica

It seems a little weird to me because it appears as if the drop goes to the service mast above where those meters are in the picture. What supported SEC's before the storm or did the storm streeeeeeeeeetch the wires?

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mickeyco

The conduit goes up through the roof I think, then to the telephone pole that's laying across the parking lot. The pole that's down was on the left side of the lot.


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neolitic

Uuuuh, ain't no question in my mind,
that qualifies as dangerous!
Kids must be smarter than one might
think.
Did you call the POCO?
ConEd up there is it?

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mickeyco

Why call the POCO, everything is working fine. Actually I called the fire dept., the things been down since yesterday (I'm assuming, the storm was last night), there so much crap down here I'm sure POCO knows about it but I think it's way down the list. Yeah it's "We don't repair anything until it's completely broken, even if the transformer is oozing", ConEd.


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neolitic

Not their neighborhood,
not their kids.
Why should they care?

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excellencee

I'd sell my house and move before it gets you and your little dog too.

neolitic

So, Mickey, did they fix it yet?

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mickeyco

They are doing it right now, I just drove by there.


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mickeyco

The house is for sale, you interested? Careful what you say about the dog, she reads the board and isn't that easy going and quite sensitive about her height.


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neolitic

I think he just wants to see you
click your
Ruby Slippers!

("You and your little dog too!")

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Winchester

Is it power or cable?

If it were power I wouldn't want kids playing with it, but I wouldn't be concerned about it, it should be insulated

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mickeyco

It's electric.


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mdshunk

...boogie woogie woogie.

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neolitic

Looks like they had a mojito party
on Sesame Street.

And md is pretty eclectic for a Dutchman.

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1018

Something similar happened right down the street from where I was working, except it was right in the middle of the road. And all the illegals (Lawrence, Ma) where driving on the sidewalk to get past it. That is until the ice cream man came and snapped it, taking away an entire building's power. They weren't to happy.

Teetorbilt

THAT'S where you live? I'll post some pics when Ol#2 finds the camera (I'm NOT buying any more!).

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Double-A

Electric Slide... I can remember the warnings now. "Don't get out there if you don't know what you're doing!"

Sounds like they were from POCO, no?

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mickeyco

No, I'm a block away from that dump, didn't see it when I bought the house, it was a surprise, the bad kind. I live in the Flintstones old house:

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