Re: [TCML] pole pigs from Gustav

[Robert Davies <robert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Quarkster wrote:

> (snip)
>
> "all I have to say is ... if its on the ground or not live, then its fair 
> game..."
>
> Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but I think talk promoting looting/grand theft during or after a natural disaster is inappropriate for this forum.
>
> Regardless of where transformers may be "found", or what condition you "think" they are in, they are the property of the power company.  
>
> Period.
>
> If you take one, you are commiting grand theft.
>
> Period.
>
> Is there any difference between stealing a downed pole pig, and stealing the wheels and tires off a vehicle that was washed into the vacent lot at the end of your street?
>
> Or entering a storm-damaged house to see if you can find anything worth "taking"?
>
> Not in my book.
>
> Kind of disappointed that so many TCML members seem ready to load their trucks up at the first opportunity ....
>
> Regards,
> Herr Zapp
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 9/19/08, bunnykiller <bunnikillr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: bunnykiller <bunnikillr@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [TCML] pole pigs from Gustav
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 6:18 PM
>
> Ahhh yes  I remember the plight of the forgotten piggie left all alone 
> destitute amoung the barren plains alone forgotten
> and yes! Resurected from certian death of decay ...  this is so kewl..
> I wish I had the same oportunity to do so cuz buying 300$ of piggies and 
> have a 600$ shipping cost was a bit harsh.
> Some people have all the luck...  
>
> on the way to work I saw 2 piggies on the curb which had already been 
> replaced just sitting there waiting for a "rescue"..
> altho they had broken insulators and the other had a split in the can 
> both in the 15-25KVA size   if I only had more room in the back of the 
> truck!!!
>
> all I have to say is ... if its on the ground or not live, then its fair 
> game...
>
> Scot D
>
>
> Yurtle Turtle wrote:
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> > I never said it was live. It was abandoned. I saved it from a life of rust
> >    
> and decay.
>  
>
> > Adam
> >
> > --- On Thu, 9/18/08, Henry Hallam <hallam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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I have to agree with you Herr Zapp, I posted this message on Friday and 
for some reason it didn't make it to the list.

I live at Hurricane Charley ground zeo and I personally wouldn't touch 
those transformers. I can tell you that people were picking up aluminum  
powerline cable and transformers and they were getting arrested every 
day for it. Although the equipment is on the ground it still belongs to 
the power company and under emergency conditions law inforcement doesn't 
play nice when it comes to things like that. I would have to ask myself 
if it is realy worth the it? One phone call from a passer-by and you got 
some splain'n to do Lucy.Just a thought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Charley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvPdQPnSstY

Robert Davies

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