Re: Partial blackout story (not UPS, though)
Someone still got a right royal for that one - a lot of the cost of preparing a site for works is carrying out utility surveys.
Airborne pigs around you much?
This was removing an ex farm shed from a plot where two (private) houses were going to be built. They'd already found and disconnected the feed that had been in use until then which came from the farm building meter box; this was a much older one, clearly way older than the shed, that ended, well, somewhere under the shed floor roughly in the front 1/3rd branching directly from the substation cable under the access road (otherwise it'd only have taken out the main fuses in the farm building). So apparently there had been another farmhouse there but only our 75-year old neighbour vaguely remembered it; no-one else did.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
