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This is an idiot trap for the guys on jackass.
“Hi my names Steve and this is Electric Death Kludge” ZAP!
I won’t even begin to try to understand this.
“Hi sir, I need a bomb squad to figure out my electrical box!”
“Cut the black wire! NO! The try the small red wire! behind the second meter and hope for the best!”
“We don’t need no steenkin’ electrical codes”. Zzzzzzt!
I’m sure if we could see the rest of that sign, it would provide significant enlightenment. What I can make out is “the biggest force of nature is…” ??
Stupidity. (If this site had taught me anything, that’s it for sure.)
I’m quite sure it’s “voluntad”, as in, “The strongest force of nature is willpower”
“the biggest force of nature is will” probably (voluntad)
I’m not familiar with that sign but I’m pretty sure it’s Mexico :S
You can also see a “del valle” juice bottle.
sorry “willpower”
The guy from the power company rolls a D6 every time he checks the meter. On a 5 or 6 he just takes the voltage of one of the electrical sockets.
Roll a save for half damage.
If elected, Mayor Fuerza promises new, state of the art, electrical distribution and metering/anti-squirrel technology. pretty sure thats what the sign is trying to say.
The sign says “The biggest force of nature is will”
En el cartel pone “La mayor fuerza de la naturaleza es la voluntad”
Typo on sign. It should say, “La mayor fuerza de naturaleza es electrocución”.
How big of a kludge is this? I’d say it’s about three and a half meters wide (of course, keep in mind I’m using a broken-pencil-enhanced ruler).
So that’s how you overcharged me!
The other day, I ran into the guy that put this conglomeration together. We sparked up a conversation about current events. He was amped up about an idea he has for an invention that combines a blender with a garbage disposal. So far, the patent office has offered nothing but resistance. I can understand why, though. It was hard to listen to him with a straight face since he is such a wiry, little fellow.
How shocking…
Sorry, but that’s what I call revolting.
He certainly sounds well-grounded, though I’m not sure watts up with the short sentences.
It could be just a phase Dogmeat is going through but he should have better conduct, otherwise someone might blow a fuse. And when that kind of news makes the circuit, it really hertz. Ohm, my…
At least they have meters. In one third world country I’ve worked in, people in poor neighborhoods would steal electricity by climbing the electrical poles and connecting to the wires by hand using their own kludged transformers. I’ve seen them weld doing this using a bucket of water as a transformer. If only I’d have gotten photos.
Must not rain very often there…
Color me shocked (see what I did there?) that the sign next to it is in Spanish. Last time I was in Tijuana, it was downright routine to see worse “code” violations than that. I was in a high-rise parking garage (buiilt *on top* of the building), and there was a power line running within arm’s reach of building. Someone stupid enough could have just reached over and grabbed it.
this kludge really shocked me…
Shocks everybody touching it for that matter!
You guys are counting too much on having power that’s at all reliable.
so you’re shocked because you grabbed it?
Watt were they thinking?
You amp-ply that they were…
AC/DC wouldn’t have a problem with this “fix.”
Freddy Fixit can now power his house from the cheapest of four power companies by moving Plug A beween Sockets A,B,C,or D.
It doesn’t look like a plug to me. It looks more like a couple of wires stuffed into the outlet
I think you use the broom handle to move the wires around.
Il Divo, a popular group came out with the song – “La Fuerza Mayor” (The POWER of Love). Maybe it is a bordello?
$500? I’d say it’s over 9000!
i promise its not 7
I’m so glad someone said that!!!
No, no no.
The title should be “Why did this store’s electrical bill drop from $1200/mo to only $3?” Those sockets provide free electricity by routing current around the meters.
Free electricity, yes… but the charge to use them in the rain is pretty shocking…
This is what happens when you lose the key after locking out for safety.
110, 220, 440. Who cares? Just plug it in somewhere Pedro.
Hey, they thought of safety. Note the wooden broom handle, useful for prying a smoldering co-worker away from the mess if repair work gets overly exciting.
Assuming their ass doesn’t get blown back 10 or 15 feet!
I don’t think that’s a broom handle. there’s wires coming out of it.
I have to agree I think it is a piece of conduit that can’t do it
But Joe still believed that the new $4500 Wall-Size-LCD-Plasma-HDTV-BlueRay TV was totally worth it.
C’mon folks. 500 pesos is only like $40 US. Well within the norm. zeez.
also, the wall plate on the lower guy is a nice touch. You know. For safety.
I’m pretty sure this is how that guy studied for his electrician’s license.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102914
…or maybe I should say electrocution license.
Just another day in Mexico
0_0 WTF?
One rainy day the neighbourhood will learn what OMGWTFBBQ _really_ means.
I bet this is in the Mexico City metro area (the payphone, the juice box, the power meters). A couple of months ago the president decreed the state-owned “Central Light & Power Co.” extinct. More than 30% of all power consumption in the area was actually, literally stolen from the grid. The corruption level in the “mexican electricians’ union” was so rampant that it also was declared invalid. Federal government offered 230% liquidation for all ex-workers. Less than 40% accepted, the other still back the union leader. The thing got up to the supreme court which declared the president indeed had power to shut the whole thing down because the company was created also by decree. Now the “Electricity Federal Company” owns the grid. Everything quickly improved significantly since. I’m very happy with it. I was actually praying for this.
I concur with Alex on the Mexican locale; also w/Pemberton re:welding — I’ve observed it repeatedly in small town Mexico, though never with a water transformer. One common version is to use a vise-grip on each end of each welding line. They use a wooden ladder in the back of a truck to clamp onto the transmission lines, stick a rod into the hot vise-grip and weld straight off of line voltage.
In Bolivia, even some the the normal stuff is utter kludge. Standard domestic current is about 240V +/- 40V and many hotel showers have the hot water heater in the showerhead itself. In downtown Cochabamba, not a small city, the common system for turning on the hot water is to close a DPST knife switch **in** the shower stall, then start the water. Turning it off is an interesting proposition, given that you and everything else in the area are by then quite wet.
There was one such shower in which the wires were completely bare. Given that I’m quite a bit taller than the average Bolivian, I showered sitting on the floor and used a broom handle to close and open the switch.
Maybe the electrician was following the diagrams in the recalled How-To books: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10104.html
Well you can tell it’s not in Boston, or they’d have blown it up with a water cannon by now.
Actually, IT’S OVER 9000!
3rd world FTL
Well just a little fix until we have wireless electricity.
the bill isn’t over 500$…ITS OVAR 9000!1!
“Damnit just jiggle the yellow one for the kitchen and the white one for the bathroom. I have to do everything myself.”
Wiring for Dummies gets published and suddenly EVERYBODY’S an electrician.
House-$200,000. Plug sockets-$25. Wiring-$10. Making sure the bill remains beneath $500-priceless. There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s Mastercard.
AHAHAHA, genius, genius, genius. all i can say
Dear, the bill is over $500 because you keep spilling that dang soda on each of the breakers! Why do you insist on drinking every time you check the breakers?
It’s not just over five hundred– It’s over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAND!
OMG! Del Valle juice!
XDD
seeing the juice, reading “la mayor fuerza de la naturaleza es la….”, and knowing mexico as i know it. yep, thats a mexican stuff
i can say the big bill guy, doesnt live there. So no one will pay for that, or… they are using some electrical “diablitos”.
lol yes the juice!! I was reading the advertisement on the phone booth and bam! Jugo del Valle XD
GO PICKACHU! ELECTRICIAN ASSISTANCE ATTACK, NOW!!!
That happened to me once. It was my neighbor…Not only that, but the ass was stealing the water as well.
But hell, that’s life in Mexico.
*Looks at electricity bill*
ITS OVER 9000?!
“The Persistence of Electricity”.
Light & Power of Center rules!!!!!!… and SME sucks.
Typical Mexico, could be anywhere in that great land really. This kludge is probably powering some street vendor stall in an open air market, it is not uncommon for store owners to sell electricity to street vendors during market day. The amazing thing, is that CFE, the power company, has not sanctioned this store owner for unsafe outdoor outlets, must be in a small town.
Why is everyone saying the bill is over 9000? I don’t get it!
Why Is The Bill OVER 9000?????
Just look up “over 9000″ You’ll get it
I can tell you EXACTLY what it is. When we design buildings housing multiple tenants at least here in the states, we design individual services for each tenant occupancy (hence the multiple meters) plus ONE service paid for by the landlord for common things like outside lights and the mechanical equipment room. The outside receptacles are surely fed thru the latter meter, and so are ripe for theft of electricity by tenants
La mayor fuerza de voluntad es la de no gastar dinero en tecnicos electricos.
The strongest will force is to not to spend any money on electric technicians.
you really letting-your money-go…down the drain.
and this dangerous electric trap is in outdoor?