I hope it wasn’t an aquarium!
They do not go 'Kerplunk." Trust me on this… 
Now the tiny premature baby’s incubator has no heat. Poor, sweet child her life was so short. She might have the future President of these United States, but for a pulled cord.
Oh God, I so hope it was a computer. I really need some resolution on this. Can you do recon?
Yay, closure! Thanks for sating our abnormal curiosity 
It’s not closure until we know what went kerplunk!
The multi-temporal gyroscope on the time machine. Now that it’s not being powered, the velociraptors will come through the portal soon…
Nah, that isn’t the dick move. Calling in the landlord/cops/whathaveyou is the course to follow for a rational, law abiding citizen. The creative malice others (including myself TBH) are thinking up and/or advocating is the asshole-ish thing. It really is too bad that revenge is just so much fun!
Mr. Killjoy here for all those fantasying about reversing the polarity: Don’t.
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It’s a violation of the Nat’l Electric Code (Section 200.11)
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Presuming that your locality has accepted the provision of 200.11, you become liable for any equipment damage, injury, or death, should something go wrong. Even something as simple as a lamp.
For example, you decide to switch the polarity of the two prongs that are connected to a lamp–congratulations, you’ve just turned the socket of the lamp into a live conductor. If you touching the base of a light bulb as you’re screwing in the bulb while grounded, perhaps you’ll being telling us about your out-of-body experience…
FWIW, your neighbor is likely violating the NEC (Chapter 4) by using the cord that is not approved for use in this particular environment.
The Three Stooges have been trained to handle these situations; you, as a non-professional, have not. Call the authorities.
I believe the word you are searching for is “implied.”
Implied Lisa?
Or implode?
Well, that was just stupid on the cops part. So they possible broke something expensive in the apartment. (not to mention a non-zero chance of starting a fire).
Thanks Barney for getting the neighbor wars off to a good start.
Word! Me thinking: Now, Mr. Beef seriously needs to NOT take that week-long vacation just now. And simultaneously, Mr. Beef really needs to take a vacation to some faraway place right about now.
Release the Honey Badger!
I don’t get that thinking.
Neighbors are stealing from him, and disconnecting it is a stupid move that starts the war? :dubious:
I’m thinking the whole ‘theft’ thing was the start of anything that anyone might consider ‘started’.
Well, the trick is here, I don’t think the upstairs neighbor knows the police were involved, and hence he just thought I pulled down his cable. You have to be some sort of retarded entitled criminal asshole to try to pull this off, and so he’s probably got an ego, a sense of entitlement, and a lack of ethics, so from his retarded point of view I’ve probably wronged him somehow. So if pulling the cable broke something, or even if he didn’t, he may interpret it as an act of aggression on my part, oblivious to the fact that he started the whole thing. Which may mean he may try to retaliate against me.
So I wonder if I should talk to him - say the maintenance guys spotted the wire, asked me about it, and when I said I didn’t give permission they called the police.
And you can say you are approaching him out of friendly motives, giving him the heads up in case the police come calling.
Worth a try to keep your stuff save while you are gone.
There is a difference between unplugging and yanking the cord. Yanking the cord was fucking retarded. It could have broke something expensive. Just because you are a cop doesn’t mean you can break shit when you want to. What if that was a high powered halogen lamp up there. Those fuckers can start fires when they fall over. And even if it didn’t start a fire, a hot bulb could melt a spot on the carpet. Or maybe it was plugged into an aquarium? Yeah, lets take a chance of dumping water all over the apartment so it can leak below and ruin Senor’s ceiling. Maybe somebody has an oxygen machine up there?
Who knows. But thats the point. The cops did NOT know what was plugged in up there. IMO the MOST they should have done was unplug it. They sure as hell shouldnt have yanked it. I don’t know why they didn’t use the cord as a reason to ask the manager to let them in so they could see what it was plugged into so they could properly remove the cord and or make sure they weren’t killing some fish or ruining some expensive stuff.
And then there is the Honey Badger. He’s gonna be pissed the power is gone. And he is gonna be pissed the cops were called. If some expensive shit of his got broken he isn’t likely to really care whether it was the cops that broke it or Senor. Now Honey Badger could be a nice guy that was desperate to keep his fridge running and won’t hold a grudge but I wouldn’t count on it.
Yeah, its Honey Badger’s fault for starting this criminal crime spree, and something needed to be done but there is no point in being stupid about it and likely makeing the situation WORSE than it needs to be.
Oh man, I am starting to really feel sorry for the thief whose expensive stuff maybe got ruined because he was stealing someone’s electricity in an extraordinarily moronic way!
Poor stupid thief.
If you want a plausible cover story, even one that’s mostly true, here it is:
You saw the cord. You contacted the landlord, because you didn’t even know if this outdoor plug was running through your meter or not, and you thought the landlord might have been using it to provide emergency power to your neighbor. It was the landlord who involved to power company and the cops, and it was the cops who disconnected it and caused any damage there might be. If you happen to know the name of the cop, throw that in there too – it was a dick move to jerk it and maybe cause damage, and the cop should take responsibility.
Also, get a copy of the police report. It might say something like “Officer Xyz disconnected the cord…” which would be more backup of your story.