On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:50:22 +0100 someone who may be Derek ^
wrote this:-

One day in the mid '60s a mobile microwave link was being set up on
top of a remote hill. The gang, as always, went out in plenty of time
and having had no difficulty in proving the link took the mast back
down and went to the pub in the van. After lunch they went back to the
site and found a very heavy mist had come down, anyway they parked the
vehicle and the apprentice amongst them elevated the mast by standing
alongside the van and operating a lever that controlled the hydraulic
mast. The mast went up and came into contact with a High Voltage
overhead line hidden in the mist. The apprentice was killed instantly.

The van had been parked in a slightly different spot than before their
lunch.

How slightly different was slightly different? A few metres?

Did they not spot the line before going to the pub?

Did they not hear the electricity leaking across the insulators in
the mist? This tends to be rather noisy, especially in remote areas
with few other noises?

Transmission lines go over some ridges and along others, they tend
to go round hills.



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David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54