"Ron G" wrote in message
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Woops-----

Looks like the age old advice of banging poles is dangerous---

My apologies---

I once had an intermittent problem the power company wouldn't fix. I tried
banging the pole with my car (metal bumper!) a few times (it was a ham radio
contest weekend, after all!), but the noise wouldn't go away. In the days
before you could track phone callers so easily, I called the power company
emergency line and told them I 'd been out for a walk and observed fire
coming from a crackling insulator. I said I had called my local fire
department about it and they'd given me the emergency number to call. I was
to call the fire department back and tell them what the power company said.
The problem was fixed in less than an hour.

"PM"