Actually, I wouldn't be able to laugh at this but as I study the photo I realize it can't represent what the meme generator wants it to represent.
Which is hysterical since it didn't happen.
Posted on 01/15/2023 1:17:10 PM PST by Salman
Actually, I wouldn't be able to laugh at this but as I study the photo I realize it can't represent what the meme generator wants it to represent.
Which is hysterical since it didn't happen.
🤣
I am confused as well... it is after 5PM my time, and I still haven’t had any lunch yet...
Wow, I gave it a try with a wild guess on row four...
I guessed this 5-letter word in 4/6 tries.
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Can you guess this word?
https://wordlegame.org?challenge=bW9jaGk
New digs coming up soon...
Oooohhh, I think that meme represents EXACTLY what happened.
I bet cash money that box is a top-feed with live service from the mast head coming down from above. Looks for all the world like they yanked the meter out, and service was dead-headed at the box, but never disconnected from the utility pole, so everything from the meter socket out to the utility pole was still hot.
The clear plate over the meter port, and the “dead” line stubbed out of the bottom of the box make the perfect “moron bait” and it looks like it worked spectacularly.
Within milliseconds after that arc lit off, probably the insulation on both 120V service legs was gone and those bolt cutters were running a combined 240Vac dead short to neutral with total power limited only by the ampacity of the actual jaws of the tool as they were being vaporized.
How many amps possibly? Well...
Per Southern California Edison:
“The Company’s contribution to the available short-circuit current at the service entrance will not exceed 10,000 amperes...”
So...LOTS, and LOTS of amps. WAY more than those bolt cutters could withstand, anyway.
Hope the breaker on the utility side acted quickly, but those breakers are sized to protect the upstream transformer, not downstream equipment, so — WOO-HOOOOO!
I see two counters to your story. 1: I don’t think the cutters would still be anywhere near the house if the person operating them had taken that kind of a zap. 2: If they were, because the person’s muscles clamped down instead of throwing him yards across the lawn, I don’t think the brass near the top would be so brassy.
But it makes a good image, anyway.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
There’s not much going on. F-I-L’s brother had to go back to the nursing home recently, probably for the final time. Mrs. ArGee told her father this on Saturday. Yesterday her father asked her, “Did you hear about your uncle?”
Some days he’s got a better grasp of things than others.
We’re also trying to find out what happened to their Verizon bill. We know it came thanks to Informed Delivery. But they have no idea where it is.
Not a bad Wordle. Not a great Wordle, but not bad.
Wordle 696 4/6
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I wonder whether the bolt cutter in the pic ISN’T the tool involved in the, uhhhh, “experience”; as if someone put it there as a prop for a “lessons learned” photo.
Also, I’m led to wonder about the insulating properties of the grips on that tool. They might provide a pretty substantial amount of protection; enough that the worker escaped a serious jolt.
For sure it wasn’t the work of a Jawa, the blast point is too accurate. No, that was an Imperial Storm Trooper. Bet.
Thanks! We moved while you were otherwise occupied, so if you wouldn’t mind post that in our new digs, I think it will fit right in!
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