This story, from the Toronto Star, is truly odd.
For months dogs have been injured by live electricity in metal plates. Surely someone other than myself (see older blogs) thought "hmmn, if this can shock a puppy maybe it can shock a person?".
And yet it took till yesterday for Toronto Hydro to think of this?
COLIN MCCONNELL/TORONTO STAR
February 02, 2009
Emily Mathieu
Staff Reporter
Toronto Hydro is warning pedestrians to avoid metal sidewalk plates near lamp poles, as they mount an inspection and repair campaign.
Several GTA residents received shocks and two dogs died recently as a result of shorts, which have electrified the plates.
Toronto Hydro spokesperson Karen Evans said the work began at 7 a.m. with hydro mobilizing 600 people to open the 15,000 handwells covered by the plates, inspect them for short circuits and replacing the covers with non-conductive ones.
1 comment:
Ugh. I got shocked by one of these plates on the UofT campus before anything happened to the dogs. II contacted Toronto hydro and heard nothing. Bunch of morons
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