This electrical post is cracked wide open. So wide that people have stuffed their trash into the crack.
How is this major hazard allowed to exist? How was it allowed to even get to the point where it is cracked open so wide that now it's used as a trash can?
Someone is using this as a place to dry their mop.
A peek inside for your delight.
I will never understand how there aren't reports of falling poles and horrible deaths from electrocution all throughout the country on a weekly basis.
Look at that marvel of Filipino engineering and technology. Liable to kill anyone in the blink of an eye. Tiiiiiimberrrr!!
Here's a disgusting news item from Cebu dated July 2015. A truck caught in some dangling wires causing a pole to fall on and kill a 13-year old boy.
Dangling wires got snagged by a passing truck, pulling the post down but no utility firm is claiming responsibility for the loosend wires or the accident.
Bong Lintag, assistant vice president and PLDT Cebu business zone head, said the unidentified driver of the passing was the “real culprit.”
Lintag said the wires may have been loosened by another vehicle earlier, making it easier for the truck to snag the cables and pull the post downward.
“Our facilities, as well as those owned by other utilities, are standard. It just so happened that there are third parties, like the driver, which may cause this kind of incident,” said Lintag.
Lintag said PLDT maintenance personnel go around different areas each day so they could not have missed the dangling wires in barangay Tinago.
The way these companies pass the blame and try to pin it all on the driver is reprehensible. I know in my city there are dangling and low hanging wires all over the place. If I heard that PLDT maintenance personnel drive around all over the city so they could not have missed any dangling wires I might just keel over from laughing too hard.
On a positive note a few yards from this trash pole the electric company did cut down the rotten pole which was featured in a previous blog post: https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2018/01/cracked-wooden-electric-pole.html
Only a few hundred more to go.
Now if you were to set a real trash can by the pole they would not use it.
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