XPost: can.internet.highspeed   
   From: Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage@crazyhat.net   
      
   In message  "Alan   
   Illeman"  was claimed to have wrote:   
      
   >Some Guy wrote:   
   >> Our residential meter was recently changed here in this SW-Ontario   
   >> city where I live.   
   >>   
   >> I happened to be home so I asked the guy some questions.   
   >>   
   >> He took a picture of the existing meter with some sort of   
   >> industrial-looking (rubber-encased) cell phone, and punched in some   
   >> numbers into the phone.  This was the final meter reading I guess.   
   >>   
   >> Then he cut the security tag off the band that holds the meter in   
   >> place and placed a large plastic collar around the meter and pulled   
   >> the meter out of it's socket.  He then took a new meter and simply   
   >> plugged it in (matching the 4 prongs or contacts with their mates)   
   >> before pushing it into place.  Then he installed a new band and   
   >> security tag.  This took all of about 2 minutes.  He was walking from   
   >> house to house, dressed in an orange jump suit, wearing a hard hat,   
   >> pulling a small hand cart loaded with meters.   
   >   
   >Maybe you've been duped by a smart operative stealing meters ???   
   >   
   >My meter is in my house.   
      
   Most places are smart enough to install meters outside these days.   
      
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