[brianl703]

Who needs to call for a locate?

If you hit it and you get wet, it’s water.
If you hit it and you get wet and it smells like a fart, it’s sewer.
If you hit it and it smells like a fart and explodes, it’s gas.
If you hit it and it buzzes and arcs, it’s electric.
If you hit it and nothing happened, it’s communications.

[MeanWestTexan]

Gas has no smell. That’s actually added at the plant.

[mabarker1]

If you hit it and you get wet, it’s water.
If you hit it and you get wet and it smells like a fart, it’s sewer.
If you hit it and it smells like a fart and explodes, it’s gas.
If you hit it and it buzzes and arcs, it’s electric.
If you hit it and nothing happened, it’s communications.

I worked with a guy in Arkansas at a Water System doing Distribution repairs. He would always be on the Backhoe and he didn't care if the repair area was Located or not. He'd just start digging and he would always rip something out. If it was comms he would just say "someone else will call it in." Then he'd go right back to digging.

Gas lines were always on the "big fun list." He would rip a gas line apart, shut off the Backhoe and reach into his shirt pocket and pull out a cigarette and light it up and then say "Well I guess We should call the Gas Guys." Everyone had already backed off several hundred feet as He shut the Backhoe off: