#LINEMEN

[ilikefatboiis]

Linemen on Media Day.

Part 1.

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[ancestraldemons]

Jason Kelce

[technological-existentialism]

anti-electricity cartoon, “The Unrestrained Demon” (1889). author unknown. It is likely that the man in the wires is John Feeks, a linesman who touched a high voltage line.

[biolumenescent]

Randall Champion accidentally touched a high-voltage line, electrifying himself & stopping his heart. A fellow linemen J.D. Thompson performed CPR until paramedics arrived. Champion survived.

[truckman816]

Linemen

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A man was arrested and charged with misdemeanor deadly conduct after Needleton police said he threatened a lineman working to restore power in Fort Bend County.  

Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia said linemen at one camp were forced to relocate after being threatened with a drive-by shooting. He said others have been subject to individual threats of violence. "All that does is make it harder and longer to get your lights back on," Garcia said.

Ed Allen with IBEW Local 66 said a crew out in Sugar Land told him a man across the street holding an AK-47 was "menacing" them. "We've had guys have guns pulled on them, we've had guys had rocks picked up and slung at them, we've had people brandishing AK-47s and it needs to stop," Allen said. "Please God, stop harassing these people."

Allen said a crew from Kansas working in Kingwood was trying to eat lunch when people pulled up, yelling at them, calling them lazy and saying they didn't deserve to eat. He said several companies said that if the harassment doesn't stop, they're going to "get in their trucks and drive off."

A Baytown woman is also accused of making terroristic threats against CenterPoint's CEO. 

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* * * News Interruption * * *

Installing spacers on a 765,000 volt line.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"LINEMEN STILL OUT," Hamilton Spectator. April 23, 1913. Page 10. ---- Refused to Accept Cataract's Offer of 32 1-2 Cents ---- The linemen of the Dominion Power and Transmission company who went out on strike Monday had another meeting with Manager Coleman yesterday afternoon, when the original offer of 32 1/2 cents an hour was again presented to the men. They refused to accept it. The strikers said they would accept 34 cents, an hour, the same as is, being paid Hydro linemen, with the understanding that this be increased whenever the Hydro men were granted an increase. They were urged by Mr. Coleman to accept the offer of 32½ cents, with the verbal understanding that they would be increased to the 34 cent rate in the near future. This offer the company would not put in writing, and the men refused to return to work.

"We have nothing further to say to the company, the matter is now entirely in their hands and we will not return to work until the 34 cent schedule has been granted with an additional signed agreement that this will be increased from time to time as the Hydro advances its scale," said a member of the strikers' committee this morning.

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[johnthestitcher]

Not what it seems! The man on the left contacted with a live wire and passed out. Another lineman recused him and he lived.

[emeto-film-critic]

Life On The Line - 2015

SAFE

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[ancestraldemons]

Taylor Lewan

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tHIS IS HOW YOU DO IT ....... LINEMEN

[taoofbill]

Under-Appreciated everyday heros.