Electricity Meter Tampering On The Rise: Have You Seen This?

‘Don’t mess with your meter’ - that’s the trade’s message to homeowners this week as they resort to desperate – and deadly – measures to save money…

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And an apprentice electrician’s life is narrowly saved…by his hard hat.

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00:00 Electrical News Weekly
00:36 Meter tampering is at an all-time high
02:06 Contractor wiring Evertons stadium from 100 miles away
02:45 Apprentice suffers devastating head injury
03:40 Company launches glow-in-the-dark labels
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05:24 Build Back Better Awards are now open for entries
05:47 Thanks to our premium partners
06:30 Coming up on eFIXX this week
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[Busterpoo]

Fair priced electricity would not need by-passing. We are being robbed

[MrAdrianGrigore]

People being forced to choose between heating and food, whilst energy companies boast record profits. Can you spot the problem here ?

[x_Markuss_xD]

This is what happens when people are given no other choice, it’s literally survival for some at this stage and will only get worse for as long as energy keeps rising and remains unaffordable.

[alexpinkerton]

I remember, back in the 1970s, one of my relatives had a close shave when he "tampered" with an electricity meter. Although it was inside his property, it could still be read from outside via a key-access door. Unfortunately, users of this meter soon discovered that by removing two securing wing-nuts, and dropping it forward - it stopped working! Everything was going like a dream, until he came back from the shops one day and found this message on a card slipped under his door: "Meter man called but your meter was out. It had better be in tomorrow!".

[boriss.]

Meter tampering was minimal when the Meterman came round twice a year!

[yrification]

I’ll be honest, I’d just say I haven’t seen anything. Why should companies profits increase sevenfold at the expense of peoples lives.

[Blackfngers]

While working people are struggling to pay for their basics and energy companies executives and shareholders are bathing in champagne, this will be inevitable.

[christastic]

awful news about the young man who suffered a serious head injury . My thoughts and best wishes to him . I hope he can have the best care and support he needs.

[gbkiller]

Thanks for the advice. Rather than shock myself I employed the talents of a well known retired electrician from the pub to do it for me as he knew what he was doing for £50, a cup of tea and half a packet of Jammy Dodgers.. Phew, that was a close one...

[champagnesupernova]

I would never grass someone up if I came across a meter that had been tampered with. These people are usually the poorest in society and are desperate. Why get them in to trouble and add even more misery upon their already miserable lives?

I would simply fix it for them, and warn them not to do it again.

[adrianshingler]

Meter tampering has always gone on in some form or another, but it will surely be on the increase now as the likes of BP and Shell continue to rake in bumper profits at the UK public’s expense.

[MarcUK]

I was told a story about one house where the owner had drilled a tiny hole in the front of the meter. A pin was inserted to stop the wheel, and attached to the pin was a fine wire just long enough to reach the cupboard door. In this manner, when the door was opened, the pin would be pulled out and not seen by the meter-reader. :-)

[ajones]

The French government kept price rises down to 4% until this February for private users.on the downside commercial users saw no protection and this is causing smaller businesses to close bakers being the worst off.

[muzikman]

Have you got the number for reporting the energy companies to crimestoppers? Funny how they make only the bypassers out to be criminals eh? 🧐

[mrfoameruk]

I remember doing this 40 years ago. 2 chunky leads and a box with concrete in it. I think it use to turn the dials backwards. I can understand people resorting to this especially if they are desperate. And if you have a prepayment meter and can't afford to heat the house what are you going to do?

[felenov]

I was born and lived in Russia, meter tampering is extremely common in some regions. It ranges between bridges on the meter cables to gaining remote access to the meter over it's 860MHz wireless protocol or hacking the meter via the infrared interface.

[AlexLancashirePersonalView]

On the old meters, people used to slacken the case screws just enough not to break the seal wire and slide some photo film through the gap to touch the wheel and slow or stop it. in a dark cupboard it was hard to see

[kevinjackson]

Good luck to them, i hope they get away with it. Greedy utilities companies making billions.

[AntonyoKnight]

Electricity should be cheap and available abundantly that would stop people stealing it. Again, only a certain class is able to be off grid.

[jpegxguy]

Yeah, report meter tampering so that the poor people get charged with crimes while the company continues to have unreasonably high electricity prices and profits.