Mike Raiford wrote:

> Somewhere on Youtube there's a video of a backhoe making contact with a 
> (I think) 15kv overhead line. Needless to say, the backhoe was no more.

If you can think of it, it's probably on YouTube.

I heard some guy has one of those mains grid transformers in a shed at 
the end of his garden. (I don't know how common this is in other parts 
of the world, but it's not "rare" in the UK.) Apparently one day the 
whole street lost power, and this shed looked "like the 5th of 
November". Apparently when the power company finally turned of the 
circuit, there was a bit of a crater.

Damn, I would *not* want to be around that crap! o_O

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