[Shop-talk] Remote electric meter readout

[scott.hall at comcast.net]

it's scarier than that--here the city government owns the utility and reports any suspected usage patterns directly to the cops.  fortunately, they're not particularly intelligent cops.  we were moving into the house and I happened to stick my head into the attic: a load of bag of topsoil, pots and the big sodium light fixtures were staring back at me.  I'm not really into that scene; it took a friend of my brother's giving me the 'are you a retard' stare to get it to set in...

as far as I know, the metermaids have never visited the house...

although, I cannot imagine for the life of me why anybody'd take that risk in the house, there are several hundred acres behind the house that would require a tank with a hedgerow trimmer to access.  I could plant a crop to rival columbia back there and I don't think anyone would ever notice.