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To: Rakkasan1

A hot manhole cover is only part of this utility's problems. Every year there are a number of cases in which people and/or their pets are injured or even killed by errant electrical currents from Con Edison electrical hardware underneath the sidewalks in New York City.


16 posted on 07/22/2005 9:17:07 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
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To: Alberta's Child
Every year there are a number of cases in which people and/or their pets are injured or even killed by errant electrical currents from Con Edison electrical hardware underneath the sidewalks in New York City.

There was a young woman out walking her dog not too long ago who was killed I think, when she was electrocuted by a Con Ed structure. IIRC, it was winter, and a drift of salted snow was pushed into the structure by the plows, and ...

29 posted on 07/22/2005 9:30:03 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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