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DWP: Workers Trigger Outage By Connecting Wrong Wires (Lost Angeles)
NBC 4 ^ | September 12, 2005

Posted on 09/12/2005 6:36:07 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR

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1 posted on 09/12/2005 6:36:10 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR
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To: TERMINATTOR

And some CA Dem party official was blaming Arnold for this on FNC.


2 posted on 09/12/2005 6:38:55 PM PDT by Sometimes A River ("The leaves have broken on Lake Ponktran" - WKAT 1360 AM Miami Newsreader)
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To: TERMINATTOR

It bites when the instructions are printed in English!;)


3 posted on 09/12/2005 6:39:50 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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Duh! Come on, guys. Red is the positive, black is the negative. Sheesh! :=)


4 posted on 09/12/2005 6:39:58 PM PDT by Bob
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To: TERMINATTOR

It sounds like they connected a transformer incorrectly.


5 posted on 09/12/2005 6:41:06 PM PDT by Perdogg
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Achmed, was that the green wire or the red wi....... KABOOM!!!


6 posted on 09/12/2005 6:41:55 PM PDT by dennisw (***)
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To: TERMINATTOR

Power also was out in the L.A. harbor area.


7 posted on 09/12/2005 6:43:01 PM PDT by janetgreen
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To: TERMINATTOR

I hate when that happens.


8 posted on 09/12/2005 6:43:47 PM PDT by CTGOPPER (In a red town, in a blue county, in blue state of CT)
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Was it completely dark? Was there any air conditioning?


9 posted on 09/12/2005 6:44:12 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
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To: Acts 2:38

Thats what you get with Union labor.


10 posted on 09/12/2005 6:45:15 PM PDT by jim_trent
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To: TERMINATTOR

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11 posted on 09/12/2005 6:46:58 PM PDT by LayoutGuru2 (Know the difference between honoring diversity and honoring perversity? No? You must be a liberal!)
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To: TERMINATTOR

It's Bush's fault. ;)


12 posted on 09/12/2005 6:48:03 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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It was horrible, a sweltering 71 degrees, and no AC for several minutes. Trafic lights were out, and several illegal aliens got lost, and ended up back in their own country.

OH, THE HUMANITY!


13 posted on 09/12/2005 6:48:05 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR ("I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere" - GWB)
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Ahhh yes --- first it was a lone workman who accidentally cut through a thick main power feeder cable.

That didn't fly -- especially with the multiple refinery explosions afterwards.

So now, a NEW TALE .....

What's for tomorrow? The Tooth Fairy (this IS california after all!) did it?


14 posted on 09/12/2005 6:52:16 PM PDT by hombre_sincero (www.sigmaitsys.com)
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Oh, the humanity indeed. Did you notice though, that the phrase is repeated in the article?

Given that this was LA, and that there was a terrorist threat against LA recently, I wonder if there weren't any, shall we say, incivility on the streets?

Wishful thinking on that last part there, would be nice if that were all it took to get 'em out.

15 posted on 09/12/2005 6:54:41 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
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"DWP: Workers Trigger Outage By Connecting Wrong Wires"

Outage, but no outrage at the local department? It must have been Bush's fault.


16 posted on 09/12/2005 6:55:35 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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"And some CA Dem party official was blaming Arnold for this on FNC."

That was Bob Mulholland. I heard the dope too. Typical Democrat, always ready to point the finger. I got a particular kick out of his saying that there should be a back up system that kicks on whenever the power in these big cities goes out. Yeah, like that's really feasible. Hell, he'd have a heart attack if he lived here in Rome, New York. Just about every time there's a heavy rain storm, the power goes out...sometimes for 6-8 hours.

The media really went crazy with this outage, trying to make more of it than it was. I realize some goofus wannabe white Moslem made a threatening video about L.A., but jeeze! these media people went off the deep end on this one.

17 posted on 09/12/2005 6:56:12 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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CNN, the "Cadaver News Network" was outraged at the outage. I thought Wolfie was going into one of his New Orleans mental meltdowns.

Good thing Shep or Whoraldo was not on the scene, tears would have been shed along with the electricity.


18 posted on 09/12/2005 7:00:26 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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...Duh! Come on, guys. Red is the positive, black is the negative. Sheesh! :=) ...

So, if you reverse the wires on a car horn will it suck instead of blow?

19 posted on 09/12/2005 7:02:59 PM PDT by FReepaholic (I'd rather hear a fat girl fart than a pretty boy sing.)
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To: hombre_sincero
The Tooth Fairy (this IS california after all!) did it?

Oh come now - Fairy is such an offensive codeword. It's Dentally Obsessive Individual Seeking His or Her Own Orientation.

Geeze.

20 posted on 09/12/2005 7:03:52 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob ("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
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