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Damn!

Now we are up to manslaughter. That was quick!

Obviously, the bettter answer is B.

Now, counsel, if you would: please explain to me how I got charged with manslaughter.

Reply to
Matt
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You're mentally challenged, I doubt you would be charged.

Reply to
Jimmy

Ray posted for all of us...

Use your areas "one call" system.

Reply to
Tekkie®

Useless advice.

Locating services that mark local utilities are responsible only to the metering device. You can beg and plead and might get an individual locator to spot the lines for you, but his corporate response is supposed to be "no way" and I absolutely will not give a depth indication.

(top posted for your convenience) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Keep the whole world singing . . . . DanG (remove the sevens) snipped-for-privacy@7cox.net

Reply to
DanG

Jack Kennedy... he's the guy who got his 45Kt. PT Boat ran over by a

30Kt. Destroyer that he was supposed to be hunting for. (Enemy destroyer, during wartime, you know...)
Reply to
Gort

Yeah, thats him.

Same guy that later looked the Russians in the eye and told them to f*ck off.

You'll remember - think about it some more.

You know, the reason there havn't been nukes pointed at the US, sitting just off Florida for the last 40+ years.

(Nukes, maniacal dictator, near instantaneous delivery time to the US, you know...)

Reply to
Matt

Take two pieces of straight baling wire about 16" each. Bend a 90 about four inches from the end.

Put these down in two Tabasco bottles so they can freely spin. Tilt slightly forward so they point in front of you. When you walk over the line, they will both swing towards the center. Beware, though. They will also pick up sprinkler lines, sewer lines, water lines, etc.

If you have a light touch, make a round fist, just touching your first finger to the tip of your thumb. Your hand would look just like were holding an invisible broom handle. Do the same thing with the wires.

It works. Used it countless times to locate lines.

Steve

Reply to
SteveB

Thanks to all the serious posters to my original question !! I will try a few of the suggestions making sure not to kill myself when I touch the wires to the lugs in the breaker panel :):):)

Ray

Reply to
Ray

There are some small devices sold that generate a radio signal, and they come with a receiver that is made to be held near walls and breaker boxes. I only saw one in use once, so I can not recall how the signal was noticed, but it seems to me a LED lights up and a buzzer sounds. I dont know if that would work underground or not. You could probably even disconnect the wire from the breaker and take a walkie talkie or portable CB radio to the cable, then use a receiver that has a signal strength meter on it, and watch the meter. But, once again, I dont know how effective it would be with an underground cable. However, if you got something like that laying around, give it a try, and let us all know if it works.

Mark

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Reply to
maradcliff

Locate the wire by clouds of steam and smoke coming from the ground, along the path of the wire?

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

When I use my cordless drill to remove screws from boards laying on the ground it brings worms right out of the ground. They come out fast too. I have no idea why. Some sort of vibration thing I guess. Maybe look for a worm trail.:)

Reply to
Jimmy

Not even Castro would be stupid enough to use one since we had a hundred or so pointed at him.

Reply to
Gort

Thanks to JFK, we will never know.

Reply to
Matt

Reply to
Bennett Price

It was way too stupid to be serious. The only thing more stupid was posting it in the first place, because there is always the possibility that someone out there is stupid enough to try it.

Bob

Reply to
Bob

What makes you think he can read?

Bob

Reply to
Bob

The same mystical power that compels you to believe Chris can be "made to think".

Reply to
Matt

Matt, There is just NO excuse for giving bad advice. If you don't know what you are talking about, just listen and SHUT UP! If you are a plumber, give plumbing advice and skip the other stuff, except to listen. It is obvious you know nothing about electricity. If you want to do something stupid to yourself, that is your problem. Don't suggest it to someone else who may not know the difference.

Stretch

Reply to
stretch

Jimbo,

Can't you just go away?

Thanks Matt

Matt,

Can't YOU just go away instead?

Stretch

Reply to
stretch

Stretch,

If the reader can't tell good advice from bad, and is coming here to get info on how to fix something that could easily kill them, then it makes no difference *what* advice is given.

Or perhaps you havn't seen the discussion in the Spa thread where all the supposed experts - the ones who continually spew out their supposed "knowledge" - can't even come to a consensus on what a short circuit is.

It's usenet. I'll say what I want, when I want to.

If you don't like it, use your killfile.

Welcome to America.

Matt

Reply to
Matt

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