Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Public Perceived as Stupid Message-ID: <1097@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 15:49:34 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxt.1097 Posted: Thu Aug 22 15:49:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 16:54:03 EDT References: <1032@sdcsvax.UUCP> <828@u1100a.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 19 > In article <1032@sdcsvax.UUCP> brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor) writes: > > > >The local power company has recently attached a bright red and white > >sticker to EVERY POWER POLE IN THE CITY informing one and all the there > >are hazardous voltages about 30 feet up and that climbing the pole is a > >stupid thing to do. > > > >I'm not sure I believe this, but sometimes.... Probably because some imbecile climbed a pole, got fried, and our wonderful legal system decided that the utility company was at fault for not warning the pee-pul about how dangerous electricity could be, resulting in a multi-megabuck loss to the utility. The public is perceived as stupid because it *IS* stupid! -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "I'll show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn." "Beep Beep! Beep Beep!"