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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:02:23 -0700, Al Moran wrote:

Recently read a story in the local news about someone using rented
house to grow pot. In the story they said that the electric meters
were bypassed. How is a meter bypassed without killing yourself?

Around here the pot "farmers" tend to be illegals from 3d world
countries where meter fraud is a well established custom. I have seen
a number of tricks.
The best one I saw was a guy who put a "T" fitting in the service mast
where it penetrated the roof to the soffit on a service upgrade so he
could loop the service conductors into the attic where they were
tapped. The cops found it when they busted the grow house

The guys who really worry me are the ones who bypass the gas meter with
garden hose, etc. Every once a while the paper runs a story on one who
blows his building up.