My mate who worked for an electric company, clocked a substantial length of cable in a duct
that was unused
He and his mate found the other end and decided to cut it and drag it through into their van one Sunday afternoon.
He armed himself with an axe an they went and lifted the duct cover and prepared to swing the axe through the dead cable.
He swung the axe and hit the cable. There was an almighty flash and bang and the axe vaporised.
After recovering, they quickly dropped the cover down and drove off.
The mistake of which cable came about because when he first looked, he was standing on one side of the duct and it was the nearest cable, but when they went back he stood on the other side of the duct, he should have hit the furthest one.
They put out a substantial area.
