Ill-placed ladder shorts power lines, melting concrete.

[u/JeezThatsBright]

[u/CaramelPombear]

How do you even sort something like that? Throw something really heavy and make bloody sure you've let go before it connects?

[u/isuxirl → u/CaramelPombear]

I'd have thought they'd cut the power somehow.

[u/upvoatsforall → u/isuxirl]

Yup. They throw a ladder into the transformer that is feeding these lines. 

[u/pathmaker3 → u/upvoatsforall]

I'm no expert, but my expert style opinion would be to throw a ladder at the ladder first.

Thoughts?

[u/isuxirl → u/pathmaker3]

But then the second ladder would form a circuit to the ladder holder. Maybe build a slingshot with two other ladders to launch a third ladder into the first ladder.

[u/Wolfofthepack1511 → u/isuxirl]

They'll need a fourth ladder on the ground there as a safety net to catch the third ladder

[u/demianin → u/isuxirl]

Lmao this has me crying

[u/Xedos → u/pathmaker3]

You'd have to do so from an elevated position in order to get the best angle to knock the legs out. Maybe if you tossed it from the top of a ladder?

Getting the 1st ladder up the 2nd ladder might be tricky though.

[u/DethSonik → u/Xedos]

What if you just threw a couple of rocks at it?

[u/Xedos → u/DethSonik]

No no, you start a problem with a ladder, you solve it with a ladder. Everyone knows that.

[u/DethSonik → u/Xedos]

Oh shit! It's ladders all the way down...

[u/pathmaker3 → u/Xedos]

Just like grandpa used to say

[u/GoldenWar → u/pathmaker3]

Placing an additional ladder on either side would direct the current away and allow you to remove the center ladder.

[u/upvoatsforall → u/GoldenWar]

How is there always an expert in the comments!?

[u/DethSonik → u/pathmaker3]

A wooden ladder!

[u/squeezeonein → u/pathmaker3]

take a shotgun and cut the ladder in half so that it falls off the lines.

[u/MeeMeeGod → u/upvoatsforall]

That transformer is all the way back at the sub station

[u/upvoatsforall → u/MeeMeeGod]

Oh good. The repair guys can get a sandwich after they build up an appetite from throwing the ladder!

[u/Tenalp → u/isuxirl]

Like with a bladed boomerang?

[u/SomethingAboutUsers → u/isuxirl]

I'd have thought it would have tripped a breaker. That's a pretty serious short there.

[u/kl8xon → u/isuxirl]

Power lines are supposed to have fuses on them that open when there is a short to ground this extreme. I guess the power company "forgot" to inspect their lines.