ReplySounds like it's time for you to buy some cammies and a paintball gun.
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We got some kids that need an a$$ kicking around my apartment complex. Got up from my nap today I noticed the fan was running on the furnace when I got up and went about my business. About a half hour later I walked under a vent and noticed it wasn't cool and the A/C was still calling so I went out to the condenser and someone pulled the disconnect blade out of the condensing unit. I then checked the other units next to mine, all gone. I looked all over the area and couldn't find what the little punks did with them. So by the time I got done searching my apartment was up to 78º so I went out to the truck and got some 10 GA wire. I would like to see the little punks try and unhook me now.
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Sounds like it's time for you to buy some cammies and a paintball gun.
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Nice idea...but sadly, you're the one who will fry if anything happens to the little nippers. Thankfully, my property has breakers---which they turn off with disturbing regularity.
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Only if you get caught.Originally Posted by shaygetz
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That would have been a blast in my younger days, just like bivouac in basic training. Na I just unhooked the ground from the unit and tied one hot line to the ground lug, just got to make sure my dog stays away from from the unit....lol...just kidding I wish I could though.
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THAT would surprise the h**l out of someone.
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Kid's now day's need their a$$ kicked. I would have never done such a thing when I was a kid.
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I remember when I was little, my dad said something to me that I am just beginning to understand now.Kid's now day's need their a$$ kicked. I would have never done such a thing when I was a kid.
"I hope that you get away with half of the stuff I did when I was a kid."
I hope the same for my kids.
Eventually, there will be no fun left to have...
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Time is still on your side though. There will come a day when those punks would like to have a minute and the next generation(after them) will interrupt it also.
It comes around and goes around too.
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Well, I would report this to complex maintenance staff and demand that they lock the disconnects. I would explain that if these kids are able to get into the box to pull the fuses they are also able to easily contact line voltage....
wet grass....rainy day.....reaching into a hot disconnect.
Id explain the tragedy that could happen.
I would probably also notify them in writing....and send a copy to the apartment manager
Maybe even write a letter to the local letters to the editor part of the paper.
Ive found the letters to the editor section of the paper to be an effective tool in getting action on problems I have had in the past.
Im also quite fond of kerosene and matches but thats another story.
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Your dead on, I believe locks should be national code. But you no how that goes, I can't find the key!!! Maybe a universal lock we can get at parts house,I believe I seen something like that somewhere, like those screws you can't take out without that special driver. We always take #8 wire wrap so tight you can't get off without a pair of linemans pliers.
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Just a simple tie wrap would dissuade some kids.
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Got a call to a supermarket monday night. Everything melting. got there and found the disconnects off on the rooftop condenser fans and all the compressors cycling on their high pressure cut outs. Except for one compressor, who's HPCO had failed in the on position and and caused the relief valve to dump 75 lbs. of r-404.
Apparently someone had left a ladder up to the roof (strip mall) and some punks got up there and were spray-painting graffiti on the roof. They must have thought the condensers were too noisy so they turned them off.
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