Posted on 01/30/2013 4:34:14 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Two Naperville residents who have long opposed the city’s Smart Grid Initiative clashed with police Wednesday afternoon as municipal employees attempted to install an electric smart meter at one of their homes.
Malia K. “Kim” Bendis, president of the grass roots Naperville Smart Meter Awareness group, and board member Jennifer A. Stahl face trial in DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton on misdemeanor charges. Bendis was cited for attempted eavesdropping and resisting a peace officer, and Stahl for interfering with police and “preventing access to customer’s premises,” according to a city of Naperville community relations officer.
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Stahl allegedly resisted installation of a smart meter at her home. Bendis reputedly filmed what happened after city workers and police arrived at the scene.
A video that accompanied an e-mail sent by the Naperville Smart Meter Awareness group depicts an installation in progress, despite a locked gate outside the house.
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Good luck with that one, comrade.
She signed a contract (service agreement) with the utility company which means that the utility company and or it’s contractors shall have unfettered access to the meter and the service lines going to said meter.
In other words she does NOT own that meter or the line going from the pole or transformer box to her house
Same goes for gas, cable, and phone.
Well, probably not. The smart meters are cost effective devices that collect billing data and feed it to billing computers.
You are not required to use electricity. But if you do, you must have such a meter if the power company uses them. That is the ultimate decision. Do I have electricity or not?
I have one and the main good I see is that the neighbors dogs don’t go into an uproar when the meter reader doesn’t come
More of these cops need to be held PERSONALLY civilly liable for their misuse of authority.
Attach their houses to the lawsuits. That’ll get their attention.
There have been house fires directly attributed to the meters however, the power company assures us this only happens to old homes with old wiring. I wonder if the installers flip a coin to guess whether it's safe when arriving at the scene of an obvious older home.
While the power company assures everyone this is more efficient, everyone I know who has had one installed has noticed no difference in their bill but in fact some have had an increase. When inquiring about the increase they're told the old meter wasn't working properly and they 'got away' with paying less for years. Most accept that explanation, I would not.
So, we funded these meters through our tax dollars and overall, there's no discernible difference in the billing. A win/win for the smart meter maker, the power company whose equipment was upgraded at no charge and in some cases, got a rate increase.
” Krieger also said the meters are safe. “
Not true. One of them bit my sister.
Are you incapable of understanding the idea of the contract she has with the utility and the rights the utility has to install, read, and service a meter?
Is insults all you have? Sad.
So you suppose that the utility is installing unsafe devices? Don't you think that they have insurance carriers as well? ("U" stands for "underwriters.")
There have been house fires directly attributed to the meters however, the power company assures us this only happens to old homes with old wiring.
Sure there have. The meter is not doing anything to stress the houses internal wiring, so this in nonsense. Do you imagine that this meter is designed to send surges of excessive current throughout the house?
“such as cutting off your electricity remotely whenever they feel like it”
Only if you don’t pay your bill. And utility companies send out notices long before they turn off a service. If you can’t pay due to a fixed income (social security) or if you have a medical condition that requires an electrical connection (oxygen generator) they do not turn off the service.
These smart meters make it impossible on the otherhand for some deadbeat hoodrat to swipe the meter off one house and put it on his because those meters are coded to each residence.
As far as stressing the internal wiring, I never said it did. I repeated the power company's claim that fire in conjunction with the installation of the smart meter *only* happens because the house has old, outdated wiring. I'm guessing knob and tube.
I'd prefer not to beta test the meter which is why I opted out. As I said in my previous post, this is a win/win for the meter maker and the power company. Since it usually results in an increase in billing, it's also a way for the power company to obtain an increase without approval (Florida must approve FPL's increases).
I don't know the law there, but in NH if you are going to video record someone, anyone on your property, you must first post signs informing them they are subject to video survellance.
Recording someone "without their knowledge" is illegal.
Holding the camera in their face or verbally telling them is still "without their knowledge", you have to have a sign or signs at all entrances to your property.
Actually if you read the fine print on the smart meter policies they do give the authorities to cut off or limit your use of power “during an emergency”.
That could be a storm, a fuel shortage, civil unrest, planet getting too warm, too many people out there watching Fox News....whatever they feel the “emergency” is.
Sour space = source.....I hate auto correct.
You seem to have missed my point. The meters may not be UL listed, but they surely are underwritten by the power company’s insurance carrier. I highly doubt that anybody is putting devices onto power lines that have not been tested properly. Business just doesn’t work that way.
Do you have any sources for your claims about fires? It sounds like hokum.
Sounds like they need a “cage” installed around them to prevent them from biting people...
Perhaps a guy like Michael Faraday could be consulted on the construction of such a cage.
No it is not. There was never implicit in the contract that the power company could monitor your use and regulate how much you use. The contract was for you to pay for what you use. Smart meters do more than simply allow the power company to read the meter remotely. Thats a good thing and supposedly saves money and time. [Tho there is never a request for a rate decrease because of all the money saved.]
You need to read a bit more about these things. Yes they CAN cut off your power when it suits them and these new ones can do more...
I do not know Napierville and whether the electricity comes from the municipality. But I do know that here we had to opt in to have the meters installed and they could shut off our air conditioning when they felt the need. I am going to see if I can opt out....we’ll see how that goes.
So my house, built in 1937, could go to the ground if they put this crap in?
My brother’s family lives in SoCal and when they moved into their home, a smart meter was installed. A few days later, my sister-in-law started complaining of migraines. The thought that the smart meter was doing it didn’t occur to them so it went on for weeks with trips to the doctor and no answers.
One day their neighbors told them they had theirs removed because it was giving them headaches (literally, not figuratively) so my brother did the same and his wife’s migraines stopped the day after they removed it.
I don’t know exactly what would cause it and I’m sure it doesn’t affect everyone the same way. Still, I’d be plenty mad if these things were enforced where I live. Thankfully, my brother was given a choice to use it or not. Utilities were mad about it, but they didn’t force it on him.
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