French Engineering

So those of you don't know but Patrick and I live at the school where Patrick teaches. It is like living in the dorms your freshmen year of college only we have a kitchen. Granted, we have to walk outside and through another door to get to our kitchen BUT it is super cheap.

So the other day some work men from Orange, which is like a Comcast, came to our residence to work on phone lines or internet lines or something, who knows what they were working on, but they are still working on it. Now I don't know that much about engineering but I am pretty sure their rigging for this new line is not safe. Let's Take a look at the photos, shall we?



This is a photo of the line running in front of the other building where the other assistants live at the school. Let's continue to follow it.



I realize it is hard to see since it is an electric line hung from the building and is hanging in the middle of the air, but what is it attached to?



It is a tree! Yes that is right folks they hung a line from a building to a tree. I don't know if this is legal, but I am pretty sure it is not safe. Maybe I am just seeing things; maybe it is something else?



Nope it is a tree alright. Well wait to be precise, they have a tiny little black plastic thing attached to the line, which is then attached to a metal hook, which is then attached to the tree. Is it is not in the tree, persay, but it is attached to something in the tree. Well, where does it go from there?



Why, I don't know? Let's get a closer look.


Why it is the transister box that holds all of the cable lines for the area! Now I wonder what would happen if the tree, or the box, or the fense that the line runs through, or the bushes that the line also runs through were to be hit by lighting?

Please let me know if I made a mistake in assuming that this "rig" is unsafe, okay?

Thank you for taking a moment to view French Engineering.
Molly