Some asshole kids (probably, it usually is) knocked our power out playing with switches outside while I was finishing up work, so now I have to wait for the modem to come back on before I can finish. Fucking brats.
(I like kids in general, but the ones that live in this apartment complex are goddamn brats.)
@shadow_queene I had that happen to me (condo) a few years ago and my next door neighbor last year when he was out of town - he lost everything in the frig, we figure it'd been out for days when he got back.
Call the electric company and then the landlord. The elec co will put locks on those main switch boxes or enclose them and give the apt complex the keys.
@kismatt I've been calling for 6 years. Nothing happens.
@shadow_queene Do you pay your electric, or is it paid by the apt complex? I'd tell the electric company there's a fire hazard they need to fix. If it's the complex, tell your mgmt co there's a fire hazard.
If someone is on oxygen and their elec is turned off by the rugrats, someone is gonna DIE.
@kismatt We pay it, but no one listens. This happens every couple of weeks every summer (but we're up to twice in 30 minutes, tonight)
@shadow_queene I would be so tempted to put my own lock on it. They can't complain if they have to cut it off. Do they need to get into the box to read the meter?
@kismatt They're not even marked so we can tell whose is whose.
@shadow_queene *grins ferally* Want me to call them?
@kismatt It doesn't do any good. I'll keep calling because that's all I can do, but the kids here are a menace and the office knows it. We have to get new mailboxes every year, new laundry room keys every 3mos (when the laundry room is even functional), and no one can have plants on their patios because the pots get broken, I've had one cracked window since we moved in and we had to have a broken one replaced. All because people can't watch their kids.