If it works, it must be legal?

[acrwc10]

Here is one I came across a few years ago. #1 is a gas line, #2 is the old overhead service riser, from the utility, #3 is the new overhead riser from the utility, run through the building in EMT and not bonded. #4 is the main disconnect, no GEC to anything. #5 is the feeder to two structures.

 

[Dsg319]

I reckon the only thing they have going for them in identifying the grounded conductor at least 6” lol.

 

[AC\DC]

That look like Mexico ( wife’s Zapotec)

 

[electrofelon]

Utility is quite lax with the security of their unmetered conductors.

 

[tthh]

That look like Mexico ( wife’s Zapotec)

I know...a number of countries I've visited I'm just shaking my head with what I see...I remember seeing stuff in Ecuador and India that really looked sketchy.

 

[Fred B]

That opening statement on the thread title got me, I here it all the time, or something like it. "The lights come on so why can't it be done that way?", or "Why do I have to change it, its work for xxyrs like that?", "It hasn't killed anybody yet, it's been that way for yrs, why do I have to fix it?"

 

[GoldDigger]

I remember a urinal in an Indian office building which had a rubber hose attached to the drain, run through the wall in into an open pipe at floor level on the other side of the wall. It worked just fine.
Generators for shops were placed at the curb with unsheated wires running across the sidewalk and in the front door to a receptacle.
Street lamp posts with ragged holes broken in the cast iron base to patch wires to conductors coming up through the sidewalk next to the pole.
10 years ago in Bangalore, the tech center of the country.