May 23, 2007: Richard Box's "Field"

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Some people put a large induction coil of wire under their lawns below power lines, and draw power. Power companies can track down where the power drain is to detect the wire.

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.