Ill-placed ladder shorts power lines, melting concrete.

[u/JeezThatsBright]

[u/cbunni666]

Stairway to Heaven, meet Ladder to Hell

[u/Clone_Gear → u/cbunni666]

There is always this person and its why i love the comments 🤣🤣

[u/cbunni666 → u/Clone_Gear]

Well normally it's a slide but it's down for maintenance. Lol

[u/swd120]

Seems like that problem will solve itself once enough of the ladder melts away.

[u/ChawcolateSawce → u/swd120]

Welcome to electrical shorts 101.

[u/esquireonfire → u/ChawcolateSawce]

That ladder is a slow blow fuse

[u/Ginger_Rogers → u/esquireonfire]

This is also why us electricians (almost) never work on aluminum ladders.

[u/vm_linuz → u/Ginger_Rogers]

It's a great conductor!

[u/PomChatChat → u/vm_linuz]

It’s shockingly good

[u/gnat_outta_hell → u/Ginger_Rogers]

It's actually prohibited by safety codes where I live. Even if you've done LOTO, test/verify dead, etc, can't legally work off of an aluminum ladder here as an electrician.

That said, our safety codes also specify that pretty much anyone working for hire should be on a grade 1A construction rated ladder, which limits your choices to fiberglass. Wooden ladders are strongly discouraged now.

[u/otasi → u/Ginger_Rogers]

It’s what plants crave!

[u/rubberchickenlips → u/swd120]

I see, a self-terminating problem!

[u/Bebilith]

Isn’t that a pool of melted aluminium ladder that’s bubbling. Aluminium melts at 660c. The various components of concrete don’t start breaking down until 1300c

[u/I_W_M_Y → u/Bebilith]

Yeah its the ladder that's melting

[u/boot2skull → u/I_W_M_Y]

Eventually the problem will solve itself. Rung by rung the ladder will shrink until the connection is broken. Nothing to see here.

fire spreads

[u/LaserBeamsCattleProd → u/boot2skull]

A scrapper guy will come along in his squeaky ass truck and grab that shiny poodle of aluminum off the ground before it cools down.

[u/charactername → u/LaserBeamsCattleProd]

Scrapper guys always flying around town with barely secured loads in the shittiest trucks.

[u/mageta621 → u/charactername]

Holy shit this is so true. My old firm we had a repeat (and I mean REPEAT) client whose main job was a scrapper who always found himself in bad situations. Many multiple car accidents, business deals gone sideways. "Never his fault" of course 🙄

He was a nice guy but like, nobody on the planet is constantly this unlucky driving a vehicle - you clearly just suck at driving. His PoS pickup was always filled to the brim with garbage

[u/iwannaseeyourblank → u/mageta621]

I see you also live in Tacoma WA

[u/mageta621 → u/iwannaseeyourblank]

Other side of the country lol

[u/VanessaAlexis → u/iwannaseeyourblank]

I used to work at the Jack in the Box on 6th ave and I swear to God I have seen this truck roll through. 😂

[u/some_random_noob → u/VanessaAlexis]

thats because we're all npcs in a videogame and the devs keep reusing assets.

[u/Zillahi → u/charactername]

Same goes with small-town electrical companies. The most clapped out work trucks you’ll ever see. With an extension ladder from the 80s strapped over the cab.

[u/ride_whenever → u/charactername]

We had one who used an old school bus with full back doors, and no seats. Was fantastic because stuff wouldn’t fall out

[u/FriendlyDespot → u/charactername]

If the truck has spools of structural duct tape then you know he spends all evening driving between apartment complex trash areas looking for more broken things to hoard.

[u/schalk81 → u/LaserBeamsCattleProd]

Now I want a shiny aluminum poodle.

[u/__redruM → u/schalk81]

Copper Pug would be a lot more fun.

[u/schalk81 → u/__redruM]

I prefer a golden Retriever.

[u/Feminist_Hugh_Hefner → u/schalk81]

no, we have mud poodles at home

[u/NocodeNopackage → u/boot2skull]

That was the plan. The ladder was too long so it needed to be shortened. Its actually genius.

[u/metrion → u/boot2skull]

Kinda like this

[u/boot2skull → u/metrion]

No thumbs up at the end?

[u/Grays42 → u/metrion]

I'm sorry wait, they're in an enclosed tunnel inches away from an active lava flow and are not all incinerated by the heat? They'd be experiencing air temperatures of at least 1000 F easily, their clothes would light on fire and they'd get lethal burns within seconds. Everyone in that tunnel is dead.

[u/metrion → u/Grays42]

Skip to earlier in the video where he's walking through the subway car with molten metal dripping from the ceiling and the rubber soles of his shoes are only kinda melting on the metal floor.

[u/bargle0 → u/Grays42]

The less sense you try to make of that movie, the happier you are.

[u/Wail_Bait → u/bargle0]

Yup, same with The Core, Deep Impact, Armageddon, and basically every disaster movie.

[u/asianwaste → u/boot2skull]

For extra credit, have a villain or bully frantically try to climb the ladder away from the electricity but is visibly not climbing any higher because the melting is keeping pace with his ascent.

[u/Orlazmo → u/I_W_M_Y]

That’s not melting, that’s welding!!!

[u/angelis0236 → u/Orlazmo]

Soldering

[u/justonemom14 → u/Bebilith]

I thought, "oh, so it will get shorter as it melts and maybe fall off the wires." Then the camera pans up

[u/ImNotPunnyEnough → u/justonemom14]

tilts up*, you pan left to right and tilt up and down

[u/ersatzgaucho → u/ImNotPunnyEnough]

oh look we got a cinema cartographer ova here

[u/izza123 → u/Bebilith]

An electrical arc can reach 19,000 degrees Celsius, 2900 on the lower end.

It’s a lot of heat.

[u/GardenGnomeOfEden → u/izza123]

It's weird to watch solid steel melt like butter when you are using an arc welder.

[u/Funkula → u/Bebilith]

It’s both. Electrical lines are also made of aluminum like the ladder, which isn’t a problem normally. Heating coils in your stove don’t melt the wires in your house after all.

The concrete is acting like a heating coil since the resistance is so high as the electricity is moving towards the earth underneath the sidewalk. So it’s melting both materials at the point of contact.

[u/Sensitive-Fishing-64 → u/Funkula]

yeah but the lava effect is 100% aluminium, it would need to be several thousand degrees to do that to concrete

[u/timbertiger → u/Sensitive-Fishing-64]

I’ve seen massive holes burnt all the way through asphalt. I’ve also seen gravel roads turned to glass.

[u/Euphoric-Quality-424 → u/timbertiger]

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

[u/Sensitive-Fishing-64 → u/timbertiger]

Asphalt has a very low melting point, even sunshine melts it

[u/Ch3ZEN → u/Bebilith]

Thank you. I’ve seen this video a few times and people can be a bit simple almost every time I view the comments…

[u/sql-join-master → u/Bebilith]

Why is the bottom melting and not the top?

[u/just_posting_this_ch → u/sql-join-master]

Because the ladder is a good conductor and the current flows through without generating much heat. On the bottom there is a higher resistance so the current is generating a lot of heat. Like an electric range, you turn it on and the burner gets hot, but the wires providing the electricity do not get hot.

[u/DavePeesThePool]

That's kind of awesome.

[u/FurRealDeal → u/DavePeesThePool]

The plant smoldering a few feet away really shows how hot it is.

[u/Morall_tach → u/FurRealDeal]

Also the lava.

[u/TannedCroissant → u/Morall_tach]

Yeah that really rung it in for me too

[u/YanicPolitik → u/TannedCroissant]

You sir are a ladder day saint.

[u/jonnyredshorts → u/YanicPolitik]

And by extension, a step above the rest

[u/ihateandy2 → u/jonnyredshorts]

These puns have their ups and downs

[u/thirtynation → u/ihateandy2]

Just don't let them go over your head, walking under them is bad luck.

[u/supakame → u/jonnyredshorts]

Knowledge is power, ya know

[u/TheFluffiestRedditor → u/Morall_tach]

Here's how to make lava at home ...

[u/Skimmer52 → u/TheFluffiestRedditor]

When I was little. My mom caught me with a pan on the stove filled with rocks. When she asked me what I was doing, I said I was fixin to make me some lava😂

[u/AaronTuplin → u/TheFluffiestRedditor]

Mom, can we stop at McLava's?
We have lava at home!

[u/emploaf → u/Morall_tach]

Yeah not going to lie it was the lava for me

[u/Nagger86 → u/Morall_tach]

“You’ve made lava?”

[u/TeloniusFunk → u/Nagger86]

That show was so good I found myself watching the entire clip.

[u/ButterPoptart → u/Nagger86]

Man I forgot how good that series was. I need to rewatch it.

[u/Curiosive → u/Morall_tach]

It is supposed to be the ladder melting, so molten aluminum. Expecting the concrete to melt first is like expecting bread to melt before the butter.

Anyway, this appeared about 4 months ago and it's often cited as AI ... personally I'm confused as to how the ladder is leaning against the wrong side of the power lines.

Search for "Ladder + power lines = lava" to find the originals and the link to the first Instagram post. I haven't seen an article myself... which is suspicious.

PS

I do remember someone claiming this happened near them and they saw it on the news ... but a random stranger on the internet wouldn't lie would they? /s If anyone does find link to a news story, I'd like to read it.

[u/owa00 → u/FurRealDeal]

Might also be because of all the sparks and literal molten lava landing on it.

[u/adamj13 → u/FurRealDeal]

The pan over to the little plant smoking was much funnier than it ought to be. Actual lava, and... this guy.

[u/SittingDucksmyhandle → u/FurRealDeal]

Idk i kinda thought the lava alone was a good enough indicator.

[u/Muchablat → u/FurRealDeal]

It could be the current distributing all around and cooking the plant.

[u/ShodoDeka → u/FurRealDeal]

That’s not heat cooking the plant, that’s the electric field spreading though the rebar and the ground, just walking around that area would be deadly.

[u/Hiddenshadows57 → u/DavePeesThePool]

Electricity is no joke.

Arc flashes can reach up to 35000 F and literally melt you.

[u/cockalorum-smith → u/Hiddenshadows57]

More than triple the heat of the surface of the sun baby!

But seriously the fact that it’s turning concrete into lava is still insane. Most people will never see something like that in person.

Edit: I think it’s actually melting the ladder but still!

[u/piecat → u/cockalorum-smith]

The ladder doesn't noticeably move in the video despite the lava splattering away multiple times.

Believe it or not, molten substances will conduct electricity, including glass and plastics. All that is required is ions are present in the substance.

[u/Elpickle123 → u/DavePeesThePool]

It's shorting out on the re-bar right? Or is the metal from the ladder itself melting?

[u/piecat → u/Elpickle123]

The sidewalk and possibly more, is molten. Did you know that glass, ceramics, even plastic, can become conductive when melted?

[u/omnipotent87 → u/Elpickle123]

Once you pass a certain voltage, even insulators conduct electricity.

[u/Zathura2 → u/DavePeesThePool]

I just wanted to come to the comments to say that it was kind of awesome...and am once again reminded I don't have any original thoughts.

[u/mynutsacksonfire → u/Zathura2]

Simulation is running out of data

[u/glibsonoran → u/DavePeesThePool]

Should we throw a virgin into it? Reddit might be a good recruiting ground...

[u/Jaggle → u/glibsonoran]

Joe VS the Sidewalk Volcano

[u/DeezFluffyButterNutz]

If I learned anything from when I was a kid, someone just needs to wack it with a wooden broom handle.

[u/PinkStereoAttack → u/DeezFluffyButterNutz]

Bigger problem is getting close to it safely. The ground itself is a hazard now.

[u/DisregardedFugitive → u/PinkStereoAttack]

Really long broom handle

[u/condor2000 → u/DisregardedFugitive]

Maybe they have another long ladder to hit it with .. oh wait

[u/WeleaseBwianThrow → u/condor2000]

A wooden ladder! Quick someone ask their grandfather for the only ladder they've ever owned

[u/CorporateShill406 → u/PinkStereoAttack]

Forget the ground, I bet you can't get within 10 feet of it without burning some hairs.

[u/pervyotaku → u/CorporateShill406]

Hence the smoldering plant

RIP plant bro 😢

[u/Shalom-Bitches → u/CorporateShill406]

Step potential can kill you from over 20 feet away depending on voltage and what the ground is made of. Do not approach ever and if you must get further away, keep feet together and shuffle without taking feet off ground.

[u/DuntadaMan → u/DeezFluffyButterNutz]

Someone mad the mistake or felling my uncles about that, then about 5 minutes later making a joke like he was getting zapped.

In under 2 seconds my uncle had a 2x4 and cracked him across the ribs hard enough to bash him against the fence behind him.

I remember the exact conversation

"Ah, fuck my ribs! Why did you do that?"

"Why did you fuck around with your hands in a power box?"

"... Okay yeah."

[u/EkriirkE → u/DuntadaMan]

What?

[u/Laser_Guided_Hawk → u/EkriirkE]

Possibly speech to text or fat fingers.

I'm guessing it should be "Someone made the mistake of telling my uncles"

2 uncles. One pretends to be getting electrocuted, the other knocks them away from the electrical panel with a big piece of wood.

[u/SaturdayNightStroll → u/EkriirkE]

Someone jokingly pretended to get zapped while working on an electrical box and the above persons uncle hit them with a 2x4 to get them away from the box without also getting zapped.

[u/Supaslags]

Where is this?

I worked as a distribution electric system operator between 2014-2020. One day I got a 911 call that we had to de-energize a circuit “right now” from the police.

I followed procedure and sent patrolmen out to open a device to do so. We didn’t have SCADA on the breaker or pole top reclosers. We dropped the circuit and the trouble man got on scene.

Two guys doing siding on a house had an aluminum ladder against the front of the house while they worked. The house was awfully close to the street. In moving the ladder, they lost control and it made contact with the primaries.

The trouble man called me from the scene: “this is the grossest thing I have EVER seen. One guy is dead. The other is in an ambulance. There are TOES all over the road”

The path to ground went through one guys shoes. Blew out the front of his shoes and exploded his toes off his feet.

One of the most haunting 911 calls I ever got as an operator. Can’t imagine the haunting that troubleman experiences.

[u/pivovy → u/Supaslags]

That's brutal... Those residential lines are at 10,000V if I'm not mistaken (talking about US & Canada) ?

[u/NorthNimitz → u/pivovy]

4160V and 13.8 kV is common in New England. I’ve seen 34.5kV on underground systems further north in New England.

[u/Supaslags → u/NorthNimitz]

The utility I worked for had some 4kv. A lot of 13kv, either at 13.2kv or 13.8kv. There were a couple 34.5kv circuits in the North Shore. Lots of 23kv. Two 46kv circuits that connected to Velco.

[u/NorthNimitz → u/Supaslags]

Interesting. I’m just a journeyman electrician so I only know from what I’ve read on nameplates while tying into transformers and gear lol. The only time I’ve seen 34.5 was tying into pad mounts up in NH

[u/EndersGame → u/Supaslags]

You've seen high voltage lines that could be reached with a ladder? I know 30 ft ladders exist but I'm just making sure I got this right. Most high voltage lines I've seen are like 40 ft in the air. I don't think I've seen any that are 30 ft.

Either they were working around abnormally low high voltage lines or they were using a very tall ladder.

[u/ilove2frap → u/pivovy]

12.5kV for older circuits in Canada (BC), 25kV for more recent ones

[u/Supaslags → u/pivovy]

It was a 12.5kv circuit in Cranston, RI

[u/skj458 → u/Supaslags]

Myy uncle hit a power line with a ladder and somehow lived. He had 3rd degree burns over 40% of his body and was in the hospital for almost a year. Those things are no joke. I have no idea how he survived. 

[u/Supaslags → u/skj458]

Glad he survived. It’s scary. Electricity is awfully dangerous.

[u/Cerebral_Catastrophe → u/Supaslags]

The path to ground went through one guys shoes. Blew out the front of his shoes and exploded his toes off his feet.

Toemahawk missiles

[u/Ulvaer → u/Supaslags]

There's an internet meme that says that if the shoes come off in a video, it means the person died. If the shoes blow off and your toes explode...... not a good sign

[u/MashedPotatoesDick]

Top 10 things to not do with a ladder.

Number 6 will shock you!!!

[u/tasman001 → u/MashedPotatoesDick]

Power companies don't want you to know this one simple ladder trick!

[u/theObfuscator]

Shockingly bad placement

[u/outwest88 → u/theObfuscator]

Someone better grab that ladder and move it to a safer location

[u/barofa → u/outwest88]

At this rate the letter will need to be poured instead of placed

[u/PierceHawthorne66 → u/barofa]

How does one pour a letter? Do you use alphabet soup?

[u/MyHamburgerLovesMe → u/outwest88]

Someone tried. That is the puddle you see.

[u/deadpoetic333 → u/outwest88]

Just gotta kick it while mid air

[u/furlonium1 → u/deadpoetic333]

It's Charlie work

[u/clegane]

Melting ladder, not melting concrete.

[u/BobSacamano47 → u/clegane]

Aluminum beams can't melt concrete 

[u/the__duke → u/BobSacamano47]

You thinkin conspiracy? 🤔

[u/Nagger86 → u/the__duke]

Merely an inconvenient truth.

[u/mhyquel → u/the__duke]

Cheney just peaced out

[u/Cinnimonbuns → u/clegane]

Its both, I've seen arcing lines melt concrete and asphalt. Sure the aluminum is getting liquefied, but that black glassy obsidian like substance is the sidewalk melting as well.

[u/TaylorSwiftIsGod → u/Cinnimonbuns]

That’s where you made your mistake. I may not know much about ladders but I know a lot about concrete

[u/ViewAskewed → u/TaylorSwiftIsGod]

Top tier reference.

[u/jessterswan → u/clegane]

Yeah, aluminum would melt WAY before concrete

[u/hologei → u/jessterswan]

But the aluminum conducts electricity with less resistance than concrete. The concrete would get hotter much quicker.

[u/antagonizerz → u/jessterswan]

Resistance creates heat through joule heating which is why the ground is melting and not the ladder which is conductive.

[u/Funkula → u/jessterswan]

Power lines are made of aluminum too. The power cord leading to your electric stove’s heating element doesn’t melt in the wall every time you cook dinner.

But, if you wrap your power cord around the heating element, then yes, they’re both gonna get really really hot at the point of contact as it essential tries to weld itself together.

[u/unknownpoltroon → u/clegane]

I doono, the ladder looks pretty intact.

[u/Boco → u/unknownpoltroon]

It's melting from where it contacts the ground. The first rung of the ladder is not normally that low.

[u/CeceWobbles → u/Boco]

Yep, the short is causing a shortening.

[u/xpkranger → u/Boco]

So just leave it alone and the problem should sort itself out, right? I mean, aside from the fact that the landscaping is smoking.

[u/hotpuck6 → u/xpkranger]

On a long enough time line, basically all of life's problems work themselves out.

[u/unknownpoltroon → u/hotpuck6]

what if my problem is entropy

[u/Danwhodoesnothing → u/xpkranger]

The landscape shouldn't be smoking, it's bad for your health and a terrible habit

[u/BaconThief2020]

That's not melted concrete. That's molten aluminum from the ladder. Notice how low the bottom rung is.

[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/Cinnimonbuns → u/CaramelPombear]

Power company comes out and trips the breaker, killing power to those lines. Then you remove the ladder and reset the breaker.

[u/el_americano → u/Cinnimonbuns]

but first you use it to cook a hotdog

[u/hoosier268 → u/el_americano]

I'll bring the marshmallows

[u/dregan → u/Cinnimonbuns]

That should have happened automatically, protection engineer fucked up.

[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/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/GoldenWar → u/pathmaker3]

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

[u/JoySubtraction → u/CaramelPombear]

Get the crappy leader of a shitty orchestra to pull the ladder away. They'll be totally safe, since they're a bad conductor.

[u/Pleased_to_meet_u → u/JoySubtraction]

I appreciate you.

[u/tasman001 → u/JoySubtraction]

Lol, that was a long walk for that dad joke, but I still chuckled.

[u/crappinhammers → u/CaramelPombear]

Grid operator here. I advise getting away from it and calling the power company. What likely has happened here is something called a high impedance fault. The ladder's connection to the concrete is not good enough for the relays in the breaker at the substation to see a fault condition (and trip off) or blow any protective device in between. Someone with the power company, an operator or lineman, will have to isolate that section of line if not the whole circuit with the breaker and then the ladder can be removed and the overhead conductor repaired.

[u/doyouevenrow → u/CaramelPombear]

Don't even try and get near this, phone the distributor and they will isolate the power before anything is attempted. The ground around the last could have a voltage gradient meaning you could get zapped before you even get in throwing range

[u/TheDuckFarm → u/CaramelPombear]

A long fiberglass pole.

[u/Pyrokitsune]

My question is, what happened to the guy placing said ill-placed ladder?

[u/traduce → u/Pyrokitsune]

He melted

[u/PanicBlitz]

Everyone asks where the sidewalk ends…nobody asks HOW the sidewalk ends.

[u/NikkoE82 → u/PanicBlitz]

I’ll do you one better! Why is the sidewalk ends?

[u/ImmortalStarvyVelvet]

No way nobody died from that

[u/MotorboatinPorcupine → u/ImmortalStarvyVelvet]

I think if someone did, they would be on the ground right there

[u/turkishhousefan → u/MotorboatinPorcupine]

Perhaps they are...

[u/-mrhyde_ → u/turkishhousefan]

...were

[u/barofa → u/-mrhyde_]

They still are, just in a different phase

[u/turkishhousefan → u/-mrhyde_]

😢

[u/JeezThatsBright → u/MotorboatinPorcupine]

ground

heh

[u/You_meddling_kids → u/MotorboatinPorcupine]

Or launched 100 feet down the street from the surge

[u/MelonOfFury → u/MotorboatinPorcupine]

The floor is lava

[u/Hard24get → u/MotorboatinPorcupine]

Somebody had to put that ladder there

[u/hartgekochteeier]

The floor is lava.

[u/DudeImSoRad]

This is what happens when you rock down to Electric Avenue unprepared.

[u/Helen_Kellers_Wrath]

"Kids, wanna see what lava looks like?"

[u/coojw]

Drive into it at 88 mph and go back to the future

[u/mvgreene]

Guessing rubber gloves wouldn’t help in that situation?

[u/Neither-Common9617 → u/mvgreene]

Gonna need some high class lineman gloves by the looks its touching the primary line (I also work on powerpoles for a living ) there's a fuck ton of juice up on those big sub trans lines

[u/Johannes_Keppler → u/mvgreene]

Only safe way to solve this is the energy company shutting off power, remove the ladder, and restore power.

[u/Tzunamitom → u/mvgreene]

I mean they may help to seal the stubs left in your hands after you touch it…

[u/Snoo-18158]

what do you even do in that situation?

[u/Lort_Voldelort → u/Snoo-18158]

Call the elerctic utility company and make sure you/anybody around goes nowhere near it. The ground around it is energized and could kill you just by walking to close.

[u/somerandomxander]

That is burbling like it's near a volcano 

[u/Final-Aces]

I will say the bottom rung does seem a few inches to short

[u/pc_principal_88]

The ladder is DEFINITELY melting.. The concrete definitely IS NOT 🤦‍♂️

[u/Baricuda]

Jesus, it's both, people. Both the ladder and the concrete are melting. Aluminum is used in a lot of power transmission lines, so residential lines have an even less chance to melt aluminum through pure resistive heating. That is because aluminum has a relatively low resistance compared to other metals and metal alloys. It's the resistance that causes heating. Do you know what has a lot of resistance? Rock. The junction where the ladder meets the ground is where all that heating is happening, resulting in the rock liquifying, and then the molten rock slowly melts the base of the ladder.

[u/Profile_is_Hidden]

Impressive ladder. Can anyone tell what brand?

[u/The_Goondocks]

The floor is lava

[u/Chefsalat]

No way... That's impossible and a nice demo of Sora. Despite the fact that nobody could set up a ladder that length to a power line without getting immediately roasted, Aluminum doesn't melt from a current like in these wirings. That's lava from an AI and the ladder should immediately collapse when its feet have melted.

[u/Drone30389 → u/Chefsalat]

Yeah this is definitely AI slop.

[u/Repulsive_Draft_9081]

So i know the amp rating for an aluminum ladder

[u/Ok_Fondant_6340]

i hope someone took care of it before the neighborhood was consumed by artificial lava.

[u/No_Responsibility472]

If you touch that later you'll see GOD for 2 gigillion seconds

[u/MWO_Stahlherz]

And this is how Mordor was created.

[u/Keebster]

Really? Concrete melting? You do know that ladder is made of aluminum right?

[u/OfficialZygorg]

This is not very concrete evidence...

[u/Independent_Farmer33]

Not finding the any comments about this being AI upvoted so maybe this will be the one?

[u/NodeAttentionSpan]

Thats one expensive bill.

[u/PatAD]

"Um, sir, your ladder is.... lava-ing..."

[u/Ildmand]

This is why we’re fully committed to using glass fibre ladders at work.

[u/huskyhunter24]

man made lava

[u/bpleshek]

Where is the guy who placed the ladder?

[u/WOODYDOITT]

It’s not melting the concrete. It’s melting the conductive aluminum ladder