Re: Internet Provider cancels account- is it legal? Can you be next?

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From: Sharx.
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:44

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"Ray" <ray@yourisp.net> wrote in message
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> gutz wrote:
>
> > Your neighbour fails to pay his bill and is cut off by EPCOR. You then
> > have an electrician splice a power line to your neighbours house, from
> > yours thus supplying him with power and removing the incentive for him
> > to pay his bill. Do you not think EPCOR would not frown on such
> > activity?
> >
> > gutz
>
> If you could get a permit, why should they care as long as someone
> pays for the power?
> (you'd never get a permit for it tho... so same argument - the city
> bylaw people would be real interested in it...)
>
> Ray

I think he's inferring that the power line is tapped into BEFORE the meter,
i.e. theft of electricity.  Now, if it was tapped into AFTER the meter, as
you suggest, EPCOR wouldn't care as the power is being paid for. However,
also as you mentioned, Electrical standards would surely consider it an
infraction.

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