Lots of metal thieves do that all the time John often without worrying if they're cutting a live cable.Very few people (whether painters or whatever) would normally dream of taking a hacksaw to a big fat electricity cable they had come across.
Lots of metal thieves do that all the time John often without worrying if they're cutting a live cable.Very few people (whether painters or whatever) would normally dream of taking a hacksaw to a big fat electricity cable they had come across.
That is true. I suppose I was referring to 'sane' people, in relation to whom I still think my point is largely correct!Lots of metal thieves do that all the time John often without worrying if they're cutting a live cable.Very few people (whether painters or whatever) would normally dream of taking a hacksaw to a big fat electricity cable they had come across.
IIRC westie works for WPD, if correct I think that's worth mentioning
I definitely do not work for WPD!
That is true. I suppose I was referring to 'sane' people, in relation to whom I still think my point is largely correct!Lots of metal thieves do that all the time John often without worrying if they're cutting a live cable.Very few people (whether painters or whatever) would normally dream of taking a hacksaw to a big fat electricity cable they had come across.
Kind Regards, John
Not very different - anyone cutting through cables solely on the basis of someone (particularly 'a member of the public') having told them that the cables were dead is clearly crazy.Is this any different to some DNO LV cables coming from a pole to a house overhead and a workman climbing a ladder to remove them because the homeowner said they were dead ? Who would we be trying to blame then ?
I don't think that's really true - most people's flavour of common sense takes on board the limitations of their level of knowledge in many situations. In context, I still believe that such common sense would tell the great majority of people that it was very unwise to saw through a fat (or, indeed, thin!) electricity cable without (somehow) first satisfying themselves that it was absolutely certain that it was dead!I don't think that any untrained person can be regarded as 'sane' when dealing with electricity. It is classic 'common sense' which implies common knowledge which, in turn doesn't exist. You don't know what you don't know is true.
We see on an almost daily basis proof here that that is not true.I don't think that's really true - most people's flavour of common sense takes on board the limitations of their level of knowledge in many situations.
Would that be the same common sense that tells them not to fiddle with things when they know that they don't actually understand how they work?In context, I still believe that such common sense would tell the great majority of people that it was very unwise to saw through a fat (or, indeed, thin!) electricity cable without (somehow) first satisfying themselves that it was absolutely certain that it was dead!
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