A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Reservation - Updated

Roger Wright

Today a meter reader brought in a toasted three-phase, 480V meter. He found it on the ground, inside a fenced enclosure, apparently blown off the meter cabinet. I went by after work to check it out and, while investigating the site, discovered the fairly fresh severed head of a rabbit on top of the cabinet. This has got to raise questions in anyone's mind! How did the head of a rabbit get inside a fenced enclosure, 6 feet high and topped with barbed wire? Did it somehow cause the meter failure? Where the heck is the rest of the rabbit? I searched... The fur, by the way, wasn't even singed. Conspiracy/alien theories, anyone?:confused: [UPDATE] On further investigation we've found that during a recent rain storm lightning struck one of the phases, and from the pattern of scortch marks determined that this blew the meter apart. No one noticed it, though, because since the rain no one has been irrigating, and this meter serves a pump station. Still no explanation for the rabbit, however. I'm guessing a hunter bagged it, dressed the carcass, and tossed the head over the fence. Meanwhile, a mile away, I found a local grocery store that we serve surrounded by police and fire vehicles and decided not to stop - more spectators they don't need. It turns out, though, that the transformer to the store had exploded, closing the store until our people could restore power. Since it destroyed the metering cabinet in the resulting fire, I guess I know what I'll be doing today.:sigh: I sometimes wonder if maybe the tribal ancestors object to modern development on their lands...:suss: [/UPDATE] "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9 -- modified at 8:56 Thursday 27th October, 2005

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Roger Wright wrote:

Conspiracy/alien theories, anyone?

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I just wanted to make sure you got a-head at work.... I sold the rest as Welsh Rarebutt to a tourist, he didn't even notice. :) The meter was just coincidence.... okay... seriously... I expect the head was a drop-off from a vulture. Very common here, snack some, get disturbed, try to fly off with the meal-to-go... but without a to-go-box, the toy surprise just falls anywhere... buildings... moving cars... parked cars... idling tanks... missile banks.... you know, the usual things. The meter, I can't say... maybe a clot of blood or piece of flesh from the dropped toy surprise went somewhere it shouldn't have? or just coincidence like I joked. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 22:42 Wednesday 26th October, 2005

Tom Ollar

I'm sure it was a quite ravenous creature - self defense you know...

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Ed Gadziemski

A brown eagle caught the rabbit and settled on top of the cabinet to dine. While dining, a voltage spike caused by lightning down the line caused the meter to pop. The eagle, startled, clenched it's talons and decapitated the rabbit, then flew off with the remains. -or- The rabbit was the pet of a student at Hogwart's School of Wizarding and Witchcraft. The student, visiting relatives in America, was practicing apparating with the rabbit near the enclosure when the apparition process misfired and the rabbit was splinched.

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Duncan Edwards Jones

A raptor (probably a hawk or kite) was eating the rabbit atop the pole and dropped the head into the transformer? '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd

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Roger Wright wrote:

Conspiracy/alien theories, anyone?

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Roger Wright

Ed Gadziemski wrote:

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Roger Wright

Possibly, but unlikely. The pole and transformer that feed the meter box are 30' away. "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

El Corazon

Roger Wright wrote:

I'm guessing a hunter bagged it, dressed the carcass, and tossed the head over the fence.

If you are really curious you would have to look at the location of the sever. A modern knife/axe is easy to identify from an eagle or vulture. A hunter's leftovers will be cleaner, a vulture's leftovers will be severely torn, and an eagle's will be somewhere in between. I doubt an eagle or a hawk either, they are very clean and careful. A vulture will try to carry a meal if disturbed by ravens (or another vulture when there is only one meals worth there), or vehicles nearby. When a vulture tries to lift a meal, if it was well softened or half-done that particular portion will fall in flight. If the cut is clean, I agree, probably a small game hunter. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)