Ten minutes ago !!
Due to the imminent arrival of Baby Pana,
I have been ordered to remove all cable modems,
cable tv and associated boxes from our old
AV room (which will now be nursery)
and relocate them to another room...
So anyways, here I am running some trusty old quad shielded
coax from room A to Room B, on the roof lifting tiles, grabbing
cables blindly etc etc ... Anyhoo, room B happens to have
the 4 main power line junction that comes into our home.
(We have 3 phase power)... So this junction is about 2 feet
behind my back. The wires run across from this junction up
to a power pole across the street.
Wifey is freakin out at me even being on roof..
Anyhoo. Im yanking this old coax cable out
from under some tiles when I hear this foooken
huge bang right behind me, accompanied by a flash
of light...
Panamary starts screaming in the house, I nearly
shit myself... But I was perfectly ok.
(She thought I had fallen off roof)
So I look around, and there it is, car
across the street young driver, head on into
the power pole, which had caused our
lines to hit each other.. So what I heard
was both the electricity shorting and the
car slamming into the power pole.
The young dude was on his way to cricket
(bottle of beer on passenger seat I noticed)
car is totally fucked, but luckily he was ok...
Talked to the neighbour who has lived here
30 years and said there has never been
an accident in our street.. Fuck me, I nearly leaped
off the roof when I heard the bang/flash...
So I climbed down and are now enjoying a beer....
The good news is, the new cable link is in place ! lol....
Due to the imminent arrival of Baby Pana,
I have been ordered to remove all cable modems,
cable tv and associated boxes from our old
AV room (which will now be nursery)
and relocate them to another room...
So anyways, here I am running some trusty old quad shielded
coax from room A to Room B, on the roof lifting tiles, grabbing
cables blindly etc etc ... Anyhoo, room B happens to have
the 4 main power line junction that comes into our home.
(We have 3 phase power)... So this junction is about 2 feet
behind my back. The wires run across from this junction up
to a power pole across the street.
Wifey is freakin out at me even being on roof..
Anyhoo. Im yanking this old coax cable out
from under some tiles when I hear this foooken
huge bang right behind me, accompanied by a flash
of light...
Panamary starts screaming in the house, I nearly
shit myself... But I was perfectly ok.
(She thought I had fallen off roof)
So I look around, and there it is, car
across the street young driver, head on into
the power pole, which had caused our
lines to hit each other.. So what I heard
was both the electricity shorting and the
car slamming into the power pole.
The young dude was on his way to cricket
(bottle of beer on passenger seat I noticed)
car is totally fucked, but luckily he was ok...
Talked to the neighbour who has lived here
30 years and said there has never been
an accident in our street.. Fuck me, I nearly leaped
off the roof when I heard the bang/flash...
So I climbed down and are now enjoying a beer....
The good news is, the new cable link is in place ! lol....
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