Posted on 04/01/2015 4:46:34 AM PDT by thackney
“Nigerian discount?”
America is the best 3rd world country!
BOOM!
Hate that when it happens...
Wouldn’t gas siphoning normally be associated with areas like the Bronx or Harlem? Seem unusual for the East Village.
You mean the stealing without regards to the risk to life, or getting caught after people are killed?
I have no specific idea of what I am talking about, but if the building had a gas supply pipe of X and to supply new tenants required a new feed line of size X+2, the cost of installation could be enormous. Well into five figures, maybe 6.
If true, then someone (and more likely several someones) ought to be going to jail for a very long time.
This was a tap into the original building supply line, not a new tap from the main.
They were not trying to get a bigger supply into the building, they were taking the existing supply line and putting in “sub-lines” without meters.
No reason to believe the expense would be as great as you imagine for gas lines inside the building only.
and the inspectors could not see that someone had tapped into the line and was diverting NG to another user...
Fire the inspector(S)
At the building I worked at we had a 75KW NG gen installed and the only thing that changed was the regulator/meter.
I think the feeds(pipe size)are the same the regulator determines the amount delivered?
Kinda like stealing dial tone when it was all analog and by passing electric meters.gas is a bit trickier and if you screw up dial tone or electric, No Kaboom
Well, it appears that the “someones” in question were the two guys in the basement, who got blowed up.
Not surprising because NYC is not a cheap place to live or work.
The landlord wasn’t stealing gas. They piped in gas illegally from the next door building that they also owned, to the tenants, because the gas line to that building was too small. They did this in order to rent newly renovated apartments right away before Con Ed changed the main gas supply to the building.
I realize that, I am saying that if the building required a bigger supply line in order to supply the new tenants, the cost would be large, thus the owner might have avoided installing the new line with proper metering & sub-metering. If the taps were installed poorly, with leaks, that can cause problems with any sized install. We don’t know if the owner was trying to avoid a feed-line increase or if tenants were trying to suck off the restaurant feed. Nor do we know if either was trying to draw gas from before the meter. In any event, a crappy job was done and gas leaked.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/police-dashcam-catches-jersey-home-explosion-29199066
If you read the article, you will find:
They are looking into the possibility that the siphoning apparatus had been dismantled or somehow hidden from Con Edison’s inspectors on Thursday afternoon, then restored after they left.
Your second and third sentence appear to contradict your first.
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