A farmer near here got pinched by the nice folks at our electrical utility a while back.
He had a very well lit barn and storage / shop building for his side business.
Then we had a power failure.......
When the linesmen went past they thought it odd that his outbuildings were well lit but not his house or anything else.
Then it dawned on them, there was a 500 KV transmission corridor running across his pasture.
When they discovered he ha buried a huge loop of wire zig-zagging back & forth beneath the transmission lines they handed hm a huge bill based on what they 'estimated' his consumption had been.
So much for 'free' electricity.......
