JhnWil875 wrote:

Someone in the gas industry told me that the gas company installed meters in 5
tower blocks each consisting of 174 Flats and found that about 12% of the gas
was stolen.

All they did was to put up posters in the entrance halls warning people about
the safety and criminal aspects of stealing gas, which made no difference
whatsoever to the amount being stolen.

The normal meter reader apparently found bypassed meters periodically with
varying degrees of competence including one which had been bypassed using a
piece of plastic/rubber hose with Jubillee clips and gaffer tape for the seal.

John.

John.




Doesn't surprise me at all. Why is the electricity supply protected
with so many indicators of tampering? It can't be because it is less
dangerous, maybe it is because electricity is perceived as less
dangerous thus tempting the lightfingered into abstraction?

Re danger; the wall of the engineering shop at my college was blown out
along with a 3ph distribution board. The explosion was *allegedly*
caused by a wandering rodent.


Rgds Richard