Stealing a little juice
Just a quick little story.
With winter creeping in on us here in Alaska, I’m reminded of something that happened last year about this time.
Our units are equipped with a switch inside the apartment that controls a power plug at the apartments corresponding parking space. This allows the tenant to flip a switch to power their vehicles block heater in the winter. Many tenants just flip the switch and leave it on all the time.
One day, my wife and I came home from running some errands, and we saw something that surprised us quite a bit…
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One of our neighboring buildings had connected several extension cords together and ran them all the way across an alley and plugged them into one of our tenants block heater plugs.
I’m sure our neighbors thought they were pretty clever using our tenants electricity instead of their own. (I can just imagine them laughing like some Villain from a movie as they power their huge mad scientist laboratory trying to bring a monster to life or something)
Anyway, their maniacal laughter was short lived. We immediately knocked on our tenants door and explained the situation and they just flipped the switch off. Leaving the mad scientist next door left to try to figure out what went wrong.
Checking the parking lot plugs a short time later revealed that the extension cords had disappeared. Sorry Frankenstein, you’ll be brought to life some other day perhaps.
You ever see something like this happen? Tell us about it by using the comment section below!
October 29th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Poor Frankenstein! That’s a pretty funny story… So the extension cord people are thinking they are pretty clever. How dumb… Did they think no one would notice?
October 31st, 2007 at 10:47 am
I can’t believe someone would have the nerve to do that! You should have cut their electrical cord in half.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Cut the electrical cord in half and fry yourself?
November 8th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Dude, next time that happens, tie the chords together in a million knots then poor water over the entire length of the tangled mess. If they’re “plugging in at 20,” they’re going to be thawing and untangling inside. Makes for a nice frustrating mess. Want to really get your point across? Drain 4-5 cans of tuna to the water before pouring it over their chords.
Gawd I’m clever…
December 30th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Thanks for sharing this detail. People can be so obnoxious! Good looking out though, you guys gotta be on the look out like detectives. Who knows what I would have done. Good job!