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Funny Things - Power Lines

Power Lines are funny here :) I would hate to be an electrician here! It's a mess - at least it looks that way. It's probably just like the traffic here though - when you first look at it, it looks like chaos, but when you "get to know it" you see it actually has order to it :) - Either way, it cracks me up :)
My dad took this pic when he was here. This is something we see all the time, so I never think to take pictures of it :) When you buy some things here they don't always come with a plug. You can get a plug put on it OR you can just plug the wires directly into the socket :) (but you usually have to stick a pencil into the socket first to open up the shutters :))
We saw this the other day :) This was a piece of kid's playground equipment. They strung the electrical wires through it... seems safe hunh?
Funny Funny Things :)
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Christine said…
that, my friend, is a HOT MESS!
6:45 PM
Anonymous said…
Oh wow.. pretty shocking huh! (I know... lame!)
7:21 PM
Emily said…
Haha! That is funny, that picture your dad took still looks normal to me, and it's been almost 2 years now. I will never forget the time sparks just started shooting out of our breaker there.
8:51 PM
Anthony and Sharon said…
The first time our 12 year old friend stuck a metal tool into the light socket right before she plugged a fan in I nearly had a heart attack. That was about 4 days after getting overseas.

By the time we left, I was amazed at all the things I myself had stuck in a light socket in order to open the "shutter" :)
Fun post!!!
11:04 PM
Erin G said…
mmmm... Mark works for the power company and has a strange fascination with power lines (and substations and a whole bunch of other boring/dorky stuff) -- so we come home from most vacations with pictures of power lines. "Look, this is what power lines look like in China! In Africa! In Dubai!"

Sadly, I am not kidding.

ANYWAY I'm pretty sure these are the craziest foreign power lines I've seen. And I emailed him the post. We'll see what he says. :)
12:49 AM
SouthAsiaRocks said…
haha!

Carrie - You crack me up :)

Emily - haha!

Sharon - I was the same way - crazy! haha! You have to teach your kids about sockets differently here... No Aashini, only grown-ups can stick things in sockets... :)

Erin G - I'd love to hear what he thinks :)
11:59 AM
Erin G said…
he just replied and said "I absolutely would have taken a picture that. THAT is crazy."

haha, so you have the ultimate vote of approval on power line craziness, right??!
12:15 AM
SouthAsiaRocks said…
I feel so proud!
6:14 PM
Life in Green-Land said…
OK, maybe I'm just the typical overprotective American Mom, but I'm thinking I wouldn't be so thrilled about my kids playing on an electrically charged playground!
12:24 AM
Sarah said…
Haha, the playground equipment would make me a little nervous! :-) Maybe they strung those wires there so the kids could just slide down instead of climb ?? :-) It reminds me of that movie, "Outsourced." There was an awesome electrician in that movie!
10:26 PM
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