On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:12:03 PM UTC, Vic wrote:
Dundee man to face reckless electricity generating charges
A Dundee man is to stand trial accused of "recklessly producing household
electricity" in a 14th storey flat using a home-made generator system.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...ntral-21770421


Update at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...ntral-23465863

Charles McKenzie, 55, from Dundee, suspended a generator from the ceiling of his bedroom after his electricity supply was cut off in February last year.

Fiscal depute Lynne Mannion said that in the early hours of 28 August 2012 the police and fire service were contacted by a neighbour who had heard drilling and could smell petrol from McKenzie's 14th-floor flat.

"In a bedroom there was a generator suspended by thin ropes. It was connected to a transformer and a car battery with an extension lead running to the living room. There were two cans of petrol beside the generator."

She said the emergency services noted that McKenzie was a smoker which increased the risk of an accident.

Sheriff Elizabeth Munro deferred sentence until October for the case to call alongside another charge that McKenzie earlier admitted.

She said: "Thank goodness the neighbour alerted police - he could have killed himself or the neighbours. Could he not have just paid his electricity bill rather than going to this extent?"

The sheriff added: "You are getting too old to be appearing in the sheriff court on this kind of nonsense."

Owain