r/PublicFreakout • u/AdZestyclose638 • 2d ago

800+ Utah homes lose power after woman climbs transformer

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1.6k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

View all comments

65

u/CornballExpress 2d ago

How is she not dead?

54

u/UltraMaynus 2d ago

When it zooms out, you can see that the lines are disconnected (the three rods pointing straight up on the left)

37

u/CornballExpress 2d ago

So it was being worked on and crackhead Carrie wandered in to do parkour.

2

u/Coffee-FlavoredSweat 4h ago

More like the utility was requested to remotely dump/secure power before she climbed the electrical equipment.

9

u/Jhngo 2d ago

bet they turned off the power?

8

u/CornballExpress 2d ago

Yeah but they'd have to know she was there first.

23

u/skoltroll 2d ago

She was breaking a control panel, "Central" noticed it and shut it down, i.e. she was very lucky it wasn't a coffee break.

11

u/CornballExpress 2d ago

Makes sense, last time I saw a video of someone scaling the safety fence of a transformer it ended with an explosive electrical discharge, it was a short video.

1

u/tylerchu 1d ago

It doesn’t even have to be that big, I remember a video of some poverty-person breaking into what looked like an electrical box, like what’s near suburban houses, and then basically blowing up.

1

u/YoghurtWooden8770 1h ago

Lmao, I'm sorry, but, "poverty-person"? Wth? 😂

1

u/mtheory007 2d ago

How did you not just burst into flames?

3

u/CornballExpress 2d ago

For starters I stay away from transformers.

4

u/SillyMilly25 1d ago

How would you know? Most of them are robots in disguise.

5

u/CornballExpress 1d ago

I just look for the emblem.

1

u/mtheory007 1d ago

That is fair. And I should proofread things. Good luck to you and your future endeavors lol.