Gothamist: Dog Electrocuted in Brooklyn

Toby

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:22:05 -0500

I seem to recall seeing something about some sort of manhole explosion on the news, in Brooklyn I think. Soemone's van got clobbered.

Tom

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:13:48 -0500

Does anyone know what happened on 5th Avenue in Park Slope on Friday night/Saturday? There seemed to be some kind of electrical explosion/fire below the street, and there was a lot of rescue equipment (even a Red Cross aid truck) on the scene, so it must have been something pretty serious. A scan of all the local news outlets came up empty, so I thought maybe someone here knew...

joe

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:58:27 -0500

THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!! Plain and simple. If ConEd, while making sure to bill us every for every little watt, bothered to spend even one fucking dollar on maintenance inspections, the likelihood of such things would be nearly zero. Considering they manage a power utility that IS capable of killing people, they should have one hell of a budget set aside to make sure they don't kill anything. This is just another example of money taking precedence over safety in the land of big business. SOMEONE SHOULD ATTACH ELECTRODES TO THE CEO's BALLS! (and, btw, this does happen to people too... but ConEd pays off the victims to keep their mouths shut whenever possible)

jay

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:56:18 -0500

Isn't St. Johns and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope or have the lines been redrawn by Corcoran again? I live on that corner and am mighty alarmed by this (the electrocution, not the mis-location). 7th & St. Johns Place

Jen

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:54:06 -0500

Thanks for the tip, Mikey. I'll try to update the post as soon as possible!

mikey

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:48:44 -0500

actually, "no word of seeing mobile units" is not quite accurate. in addition to the Post story below, you may have noticed in the past months all over the city: little metal bands around any lampposts, pedestrian signal posts, anything that carries electricity. each has a barcode tag that Con Ed uses to track each that has been tested for stray voltage. anyway, from the Post just yesterday (12/11): http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/59398.htm After every snowstorm, including Friday's, Con Ed has been combing city streets with a mobile voltage detector that picks up signs of stray voltage coming from service boxes, manhole covers, gratings — even neon signs and scaffolding lighting, said Clendenin.