A friend of mine retired from doing security for the electric company out in the Desert .

He told me they have endless problems with tweakers stealing the ground path stakes, apparently they're mandated every so many feet .

One time the tweaker pulled one too many metal stakes and was fried on the spot, he got the cleanup detail .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

What is a tweaker and why would pulling the stake fry you?...please.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Sorry Tom ! .

A 'tweaker' is a meth user .

Pulling the grounding stakes can kill you because they're necessary to prevent the high voltage from flashing over to any convenient ground path, like say a nice juicy Human who's got his hand on one half of the ground path....

Part of my training was to watch DWP safety videos of people getting electrocuted whilst working and also interviews with the unlucky few who survived .

For those not familiar with how it works, when you're electrocuted with high voltage, the current goes right through your skin & muscles then travels through your bones to wherever it comes out again, cooking the marrow in your bones as it goes along .

High voltage is serious stuff, why I don't even like fooling with the electricity in my house .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Did the crock moisten it tastefully?

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2001 SLK 320 six speed manual
2014 Porsche Cayenne six speed manual

Annoy a Liberal, Read the Constitution

A little garlic, a little pepper, maybe a squeeze of lemon, gotta marinate it, right ? .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Then serve it with dumplings! Yumm.

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2001 SLK 320 six speed manual
2014 Porsche Cayenne six speed manual

Annoy a Liberal, Read the Constitution

There is a place for all the creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes

When the snooty waiter in a high end restaurant with seriously bad food asked me ' how did you find your steak sir ?' .

Unbelievable anyone could ever give such a rich entry, I replied " I just looked underneath the potato and there it was" .

Oddly he wasn't as amused as I was .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

We didn't actually crock it.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

when i was younger, ever child and grandchild had sq. gravy

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squirrel tartare ?

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I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me. — Winston Churchill

Took you a while to come up with that response did it?

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Te futueo et caballum tuum

1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I read about a guy in Seattle, who had previously been an electrician at SeaTac. One day he did something wrong with high voltage in a tunnel, and lost both of his arms.

I might have encountered the guy years later, I didn’t ask him. I was driving cab one night and picked up a guy with no arms. He pulled the money out of his wallet with his toes.

Are those grounding stakes made of copper or brass? Tweakers, as I’m sure you know are loopy for copper.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

Yes, they are made of copper .

Part of my safety training involved watching DWP videos, some had actual footage of guys touching the wrong thing then falling dead off the ladder....

Some we of guys who'd survived electrocution but I'm sure they'd rather have died as they had no hands, feet and very little skin .

Apparently when you contact high voltage it passes through your skin to your bones and travels up them cooking the marrow (where your blood is formed) until it reaches the nearest ground whereupon it leaves your body via the skin again as it arcs to the ground path .

Electricity is *very* lazy and the Human body is a fairly good conductor to RESPECT IT .

One of my older buddies used to change the brushes on the generating turbines as they were live and spinning, there's a whole rigamarole required, if you don't follow it you get cooked to death in seconds .

Watching 'stumpy' be interviewed in a hospital bed was very, VERY sobering .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Wait, stumpy was your buddy who had been changing brushes?

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Te futueo et caballum tuum

1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K