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Originally Posted by Kitsune
I've heard this story a dozen times, usually about a farmer that was stealing electricity by installing induction coils in the roof of a barn/along a fence that was under high voltage lines. There's never any source article.
Sounds like a bad urban legend to me.
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I know a power line engineer - he says it gets done every so often - but if it's enough to light say, a full barn, the power company can usually measure the loses, and they start loonking - he actually sent a link to an artile where someone was arrested to theft