SCEG has nothing on China!
I saw this walking home the other day, and had to stop to take a picture. He probably thought I was nuts, but oh well, I got the picture didn’t I?
Back home if you see anyone trying to fix a power line there is always a big truck with a man sitting in a bucket and that bucket is on an arm extending upwards toward the power line.
Not in China.
I don’t know how the Chinese man got onto the power lines. I didn’t see a truck, a latter, or a stool, but he was there – sitting as pretty as he pleased on a little strip of wood that was tied to the wires. As he sat there he kept tugging on another wire that I figure he was adding to the present wires, but heck, he could have been doing anything. I was a meter reader, not an electrician. I just thought it was interesting to see how another country fixes problems like these. You would never, and I mean ever, see a SCEG employee doing this. No sir. Not in a million years. Can you imagine the lawsuits that would arise? I can.
I won’t ever know how the man got down either because after I snapped my picture, I scurried off. I know that China is developed in a lot of ways, but when I see things like this, and I see them more often than you think I would, I wonder how far back China is – in the sense of becoming a developed country. I guess China has a way to go in cities like Fuyang. Shanghai has to be more developed than this, right? I would hope so.
mmmm… shanghai is more developed, but as far as safety goes, well, not so much.
A friend of mine was walking down the street the other day, and one of the window-cleaning abseilers cleaning a highrise had his rope snap in two and plummeted to his death!
Oh and I watched the Haier airconditioner repairman sitting out on my neighbour’s external unit of the AC- on the 27th floor, with his legs dangling while he fiddled with something and not a safety rope in sight.
Unfortunately, though Shanghai is expensive, human life is still cheap.
Looking forward to catching up when you are in Shanghai! (we’ll stay away from window washers and AC units….)
September 30, 2006 @ 4:11 PM