Wow… All I can say is wow. That looks worse than my hair on a Sunday morning!

My only comment:
Holy s**t!

Some of those look like “end-user patches” to get free power.

There was a story on PBS where they were trying to get people used to the idea of paying for power (in Russia I believe) when they were used to getting it for free under the old communist ways. People refused to pay (and really could barely afford to in the first place).

The power company people would go out and find these very scary nests of hacks to steal power – sometimes they would find dead bodies where people had electrocuted themselves accidentally

OMG!!!…

Awesome collection. Hats off to all the photographers.

What is the static load bearing capability of a utility pole? I’m sure that some of these poles are near that limit.

If one of these poles goes, I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole local network of poles go down like dominoes tied together with string.

Yip, this is electricity, phone and cable tv wiring at it’s best.

It’s often when the electrician (or cable installer) comes out to fix a problem or install a new connection that makes this worse. They look at the mess on the pole above them, and decide that installing a new cable is a better idea than trying to find the fault.

This looks like some of the cable/phone poles wired by the dopeheads that work for Time-Warner in Queens and Brooklyn.

@_ck_: New Orleans, United States. I got sick of being in the dark followin Katrina. The grid was on, but the electric company wasn’t turning on houses without inspections. I popped open the meter box and hammered conductive plate metal into place on both sides, and voila, instant free electricity.

Then came a stormy day weeks after that. The power went out. I went to check the plate metal hack. One of them had, indeed, slipped out of place somehow. I attempted to put it back into place with a pair of pliers wrapped in electrical tape, while I was standing in a puddle of rain water.

I woke up a few minutes later. Witnesses said the arc was so bright they thought sure I was dead. And that’s th story of how I learned never to play with electricity again.

Add this one
http://www.lolhome.com/img_big/funny-picture-450961003.jpg

Lesserdevil, that was just silly. Electrical tape does not guranatee isolation :O

He’s a fan: http://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/tags/wires

These two have got to be the most EPIC and I’m surprised they’re not a part of the list.

http://i.presh.it/electrical-cabling-gone-wild-1.jpeg
http://i.presh.it/electrical-cabling-gone-wild-2.jpeg

Kirchoff’s Current Law (KCL):
At every node, the sum of all currents entering a node must equal zero.

Kirchoff’s Voltage Law (KVL):
The voltage law says that the sum of voltages around every closed loop in the circuit must equal zero.

Now apply the law to the above pictures

This is a fine collection – perhaps next time around visit Hanoi and Manila. They have some amazing systems which will awe your understanding of science – that wooden poles can manage to bear such weight and that power manages to get through despite so much splicing. Then again, some areas in those cities are prone to brownouts.

Here you have one more:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/decadence/3256093753/

This one is in Bangkok’s chinatown.

wow… spiderman was there…

Amazing Thailand

I think,more electrical cables will provide more electrical problems.

Hats off to them who troubleshoot under this condition

most of the poles in the pictures are steel. And the location is most likely a junction area that connects several systems. I don’t think they look all too complicated.

Actually, a majority of these are telephone wires, not electrical…

And to think, if Thomas Edison had had his way, each of those power lines would have to be a foot in diameter.