My best meter story is when I was living on the beach and my meter stopped working, it was free electricity for two years.
That happen to me too. However, it did not completely stop. It just started moving at a snails pace. My bill went down 90%.
I’ve heard that one can encourage that with strong magnets. They sell very strong magnets at Harbor Freighht Tools.
lol. You were in no hurry to report it I guess.
My parents farm had a meter in the middle of all the out buildings. That metered all electrical use for everything. It got hit by lightning and stopped working. My Dad called the electric company twice but they did nothing so he quit calling. They got a CREDIT every month of $25.00 because they didn’t use any electricity!
This went on for 3 years until we re-wired the house and installed a new 200 amp service. We had a new meter installed on the house and stopped using the other meter. Once the power company saw the actual usage they wanted a refund of three years worth of credits.
Of course my Dad told them where to go and after a while they stopped asking.
Similarly my business was in a rented office building where we were for 5 years (we moved to bigger digs). For the whole 5 years the power company was reading the wrong meter and we were billed for the neighboring office and they got our bills. We always wondered why they had most of their lights off all the time and kept the A/C at 80 degrees! So after we moved the power company figured it out and tried to bill us for a couple thousand bucks - what a joke!