r/oddlyterrifying 3d ago

Stealing electricity in Southeast Asia

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u/NonIdealOpAmp 3d ago

I doubt if it’s electricity. But i remember when I was young our small town had antennas on top of the house which would broadcast few channels. Then came companies providing service of multiple channels and were transmitted via such wires from a base station that they setup. What some people used to do is to use a safety pin as shown above and connect the wire to their antenna receiver. Which used to give them multiple channels without any subscription. But this was easily detectable as the houses that were connected after this would have really bad reception.

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u/fuzzydunloblaw 3d ago

Interesting. In that case it seems kind of rude to tap into wires without insulating the the splice and preventing as much interference as possible.

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u/DrMantisToboggan45 3d ago

Yeah this looks like phone/fiber, maybe an extension cord. Anything bigger than that and the person who did it would look quite different now