How do people steal electricity in residential neighborhoods and why would they do this? The how can be as easy as running an electric cable from an elderly home owners outdoor electric outlet to as hard as climbing an electric pole and splicing.
People who climb electric poles often times are burnt or completely electrocuted to death. For those who don’t get cooked partially or fried completely you may have to spend up to 5 years in prison for felony theft and pay up to $20,000 or do both.
In Texas there are about 10,000 cases of people caught steeling electricity from electric utilities each year. In Nevada the number of electricity service thefts is around 1,400 a year. In Texas the annualized loss in a dollar figure is close to 200 million dollars lost each year from theft of electricity.
The way the electric utilities discover that their electricity is being stolen is usually from tipsters that see exactly what their neighbor is doing. Considering that it is quite easy to see a makeshift wire connection coming off an electric pole it makes you wonder just how dumb these people are that risk freedom, life, and limb.
Utility workers routinely see tale tale signs of attempted theft such as blood inside an electric box and sensors indicating an electric shock. To understand just how dangerous tampering with electricity can be consider that there are 200 amps of power in a residential meter. A human heart can be stopped by just half an amp.
There are closely guarded in the family cookbook manuals on how to safely steal your electricity and these can often be found on online marijuana growing forums as well. The instructions often come with friendly warnings about death even though the instructions are written by criminals. At least these criminals have some heart left in them yet.
In summary we are not going to give you instructions on how to steal residential electricity in this article but rather would like to encourage you to not be a dumb hillbilly redneck. You will get shocked, burnt, dead, or arrested in the process of doing this and if you had to read this to learn this you are simply too stupid to not end up in jail eventually anyway.