How do they disconnect the new electricity meters?

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Simon & Nicky

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In the "good old days" if you didn't pay your electricity bill they used to come out and turn the meter upside down (apparently). Being an honest timely person :ermm: I have never been disconnected, but I was wondering if anyone had been while owning one of the new digital meters?

Do they still just turn it around the wrong way and assume you don't have the brains to turn it back again, or is it a bit more complicated than that?

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rubio_higuey

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From what I have seen, they disconnect your "input" cable and leave the meter there ... makes it easier for people to reconnect. I have seen them doing it in various cities (EdeEste).
 
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NV_

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Last week the jerk off actually pulled out the ladder, climbed to the wires and disconnected me that way.
 
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rubio_higuey

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NV_ said:
Last week the jerk off actually pulled out the ladder, climbed to the wires and disconnected me that way.
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Yep, that's what I was saying. If you pass your invoice due date by 1 day, you get hit with a 300 pesos reconnection fee, even if no disconnect takes place. You pass your due date by 3 days they come in and bring the scissors.
 
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Eddy

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rubio_higuey said:
Wouldn't it actually make the meter run in reverse?
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Not the new digital ones. As for the older ones, people used to turn them upside down for the weekend. A good way to lower the numbers. The good old days are gone.
 
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El Rey de Mangu

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Eddy said:
Not the new digital ones. As for the older ones, people used to turn them upside down for the weekend. A good way to lower the numbers. The good old days are gone.
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Funny sh--. At my place up North they tell you they have no new meters. The send a guy to survey the house and send you a bill based on that estimate. They showed up and asked me what appliances I had in the house, without going inside or looking on the roof. Do I need finish the story? lol
 
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Eddy said:
Not the new digital ones. As for the older ones, people used to turn them upside down for the weekend. A good way to lower the numbers. The good old days are gone.
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I had a friend in the UK who was a heating engineer, he built a heated pool in his garden and used to run his gas meter back to front regularly to keep his bill down. That was in 1980 but I don't think you could get away with it now!
 
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