If SCL needs someone to test the grounding on other light poles, may I suggest that cat decapitator from Olympia could be press-ganged as a test subject?

Anyone else notice the new white light LED displays on some of the metro bus lines?

They remind of the new LED streetlights - those things are WAY too bright, I'm going to have to buy thicker curtains now.

Grounding is problematic in wet conditions, actually, especially if anyone is running a generator and spiking the water table electrical balance.

A- Poor Puppy :(

B- I love those new LED lights. They dont make you sleepy like the orange monsters and make pedestrians more visable.

"We want the public to be assured that this was an isolated incident. We are researching our records to determine whether there are similar lights elsewhere in our system. If we find there are, they will be inspected and any necessary repairs will be made immediately."

In other words, this is the only improperly wired junction box until we find the other improperly wired junction boxes.

Yeah. Whatever. I'm never walking on one of those metal covers again.

I thought streetlamps guttered?

The family of the woman killed in NYC in similar circumstances have used their settlement to keep Con Ed honest, and to ensure that they survey regularly for similar problems.

See: http://strayvoltagenyc.org/

As a dog owner myself, I'm just sickened by this. I can't imagine what it would be like to see a beloved pet die in such a terrible way. Grandfather Vel-DuRay was a lineman in the bad old pre-IBEW days, and he saw the awful things electricity can do, and the horrific ways it can kill you. (One of the reasons I thought I would never follow in His footsteps, but here I am - albeit as a Traveling Electrical Hostess, not a lineman)

But it really is ironic: people urinate into transformer vaults all the time, and nothing ever happens to those louts. Sleazy restaurants dump grease in them all the time and no problems. just this poor dog, and mostly because dogs don't wear shoes.

Eeesh - what a horrible story. The lady's description of what happened on the Seattle Times story that I read about it was absolutely heart-wrenching.

Too bad the comments on that story devolved literally into the Palin-esque nonsensicalness of "the dog lied".

This country's refusal to maintain basic infrastructure is fucking pathetic.

It just may be a freak accident or it may be a sign that our infrastructure is in need of repair.

There are thousands, upon thousands of similar junction boxes around the city. Even if only a small percentage of 1% are faulty that could still be a large number.

I've been refusing to walk on the metal plates ever since I slipped on one while running for a bus in the rain and broke my leg, some 25 years ago. I feel downright vindicated now.

Poor doggy. :-(

That dog weighed 60 or 70 pounds; it so easily could have been a child. I wonder if they would be minimizing this so much if it had been.