I had to take a second look when I seen this

[Lip.82]

 

[MJPD29]

Undoubtedly the most simple yet maybe most dangerous way I've ever seen someone bypass a meter

 

[static zap]

Is that some Thermal damage ! (or just old age)

 

[Lip.82]

I couldn't believe it when I seen it. The occupants of the house were heavy drug users and surprisingly managed to do this without injury. Unbelievable

 

[ipf]

At least they used the correct colour.

 

[Lip.82]

At least they used the correct colour.

That's not brown cable, it's bare copper

 

[ipf]

That's not brown cable, it's bare copper

I wondered if it was........braindead......but nifty with the fingers!

 

[Richard Burns]

Manic, and 90% of the current will still go through the meter!
Always good to use bare copper conductors when working on live installations

 

[westward10]

Just goes to show all those large conductors are uneccessary

 

[Percyprod]

Here's a couple more, one worked, one didn't! Came across loads working for DNO.

 

[Percyprod]

Sorry, same photo loaded twice! I'll try again

 

[Cadgey123]

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If you could put the terminal cover back on that would be dangerously close to that middle cover screw

 

[Lip.82]

If you could put the terminal cover back on that would be dangerously close to that middle cover screw

The cover was no where to be seen, they probably did try to put it on to hide what they had done lol

 

[Lip.82]

Sorry, same photo loaded twice! I'll try again

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Its unreal what people do when desperate or just plain stupid

 

[Mike Johnson]

How about this one, everyone knows the light should be underneath to keep the oil warm.

Mike

 

[satori]

Manic, and 90% of the current will still go through the meter!

Not once it's run out of credit it won't!

 

[ipf]

Just goes to show all those large conductors are uneccessary

I wish they were when I was a kid, trying to get away without paying my bus fare... contact and thrown in the air, off the bus, by one of 'em.

 

[WillWX]

My NIC assessor was telling me about the craziest one he saw, I can't explain it in detail as he did because I can't fully remember, but it goes along the lines of..

He went to investigate a DNO neutral fault on a caravan park I'm sure he said, turned out to be someone had wired up a thermostat on the wall to cut the incoming neutral and had wired up part of the property using the faulty neutral as a live or something similar to this.

He said it was the most complex attempt he's ever seen and took him a long time to figure it out.

 

[driverman]

I knew of one successful attempt years ago. It only came to light due to change of ownership. I think it was a meter change due to age.
Previous people had removed the whole meter board and bent it forward including the lead service cable! They then drilled through the meter board from the back and into the rear of the meter live terminals. Once meter board fitted back onto the wall, looked untouched, all seals intact etc. The things people will do!