A friend of mine who lives over in SD Este just told me the story of how she and her mom had been contesting their high electric bill for four months. Finally got the company to come to the house.. and they arrived WITH the police! The electric guys went up to the roof and came down and said..
Dona, the entire neighborhood behind you is hooked into your electricity!
they cut all the extra lines, and arrested three of the perps in their homes.
Ah, well, it was only two women who could not climb to the roof.. and the daughter is a gringa..
yeah... a gringa who gradutated from nYU
but you should check those lines.
I had these wierd lines, like telephone lines, running through my two bedrooms and just cut them one day with rubber handled clippers.. Explosion! turned out that the owner of MY apartment had been stealing electricity from my upstairs neighbors through this one little wire. None of the sockets on the floor .. including one of the ac units.. had EVER been hooked up to MY meter. So I am paying more now. But feeling better about it