Well, here’s another one to file under I didn’t even know that was a thing.
Explains our submitter in Chicago: “We live in a VERY old building with a lot of electrical problems. Apparently, one of the tenants is blowing fuses daily and switching their blown fuses out with other units’ working ones. Crazy.”
related: This is not a thing! I refuse to acknowledge this is a thing!
85 responses so far ↓
#1
Heather
Shocking!!
Jul 14, 2011 at 9:45 pm rating: 42
#2
Danny
Last time I lived in a rental property with a fuse box, I replaced my fuses with the little screw-in circuit breakers. Then I just had to walk downstairs and push a button when a fuse “blew”.
I suggest getting the management company to invest in some of those, since that would also discourage people from replacing fuses with something of the wrong value (like a bigger fuse, or a penny), and they cost under $10 each.
http://www.amazon.com/Bussmann-BP-MB-15-Circuit-Breaker/dp/B000S5RGFY/ref=sr_1_1?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1310698338&sr=1-1
Also, fuses are not expensive. They’re like $1-$2 each. Probably less than a pad of Grateful Dead stationary.
Jul 14, 2011 at 9:54 pm rating: 32
#3
Nicole
*laugh* I actually have very little issue with this sign…it seems more reasonable than most on this site, and the points he or she brings up are valid. I mean, wow…stealing fuses? That’s low communal living behavior.
Also, I, uh, really love the term of endearment that is “jerkface.”
Jul 14, 2011 at 9:54 pm rating: 52
#4
cizzerhand
nothing says *RAGE* like goose-stepping teddy bears
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:09 pm rating: 52
#5
Olivia
I’d start marking the fuses to track where they went…
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:12 pm rating: 33
#6
Lawl
Actually, I love this one! It’s pretty justified and the Grateful Dead stationery was the icing on the cake.
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:18 pm rating: 5
#7
meaella
I never knew there was such as thing as Grateful Dead stationary!
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:37 pm rating: 4
#8
Deana
I’ve had neighbors do that to me. It’s so low. Stealing a cup of laundry detergent is one thing, but stealing a fuse? You just cut out someone’s lights, jackass.
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:40 pm rating: 23
#9
Trixie
No way I’m checking the fuse box. I saw Jurassic Park.
Jul 14, 2011 at 11:19 pm rating: 42
#10
Mrs.Beasley
OK, stealing good fuses to replace bad ones DOES make one a dirtbag. But there is always something to be “grateful” for – like having a neighbor who steals good fuses rather than sticking a penny in beneath a bad one to circumvent the system. Because if they did that nobody would be Grateful, they’d just be Dead.
Jul 14, 2011 at 11:51 pm rating: 10
#11
Canthz_B
I think I once over-heard Foghorn Leghorn say, “This is why I keep my fuses numbered.”
Jul 14, 2011 at 11:53 pm rating: 4
#12
Julie
hahahahahaha “have a GRATEFUL day”
Jul 15, 2011 at 12:12 am rating: 3
#13
Earl Hamsher
i used to live in a place that required fuses. i think you need to mark yours with a sharpie or something so you can bust the a-hole
Jul 15, 2011 at 1:15 am rating: 7
#14
Kay
If it were the other way around, the deadhead stealing the fuses, I would make a quip about all those lamps necessary 24/7 for a good crop of maryjane. Alas, I got nothing. A jerkface is, as pointed out, a jerkface.
Jul 15, 2011 at 1:16 am rating: 5
#15
Canthz_B
If you think vegans hate jerk chicken, just imagine how they must feel about jerkface!
Jul 15, 2011 at 1:31 am rating: 6
#16
FeRD
We have somebody where I live (I *think* it’s just one person, and I have a suspect in mind, but no proof) who keeps swapping his dead light bulb for the one from our buildings’s basement entrance. So, everybody who lives on that level gets to fumble for their keys in the dark whenever he blows a bulb. I thought that was classy enough… but this jerkface found a way to top it!
People… feh!
Jul 15, 2011 at 2:19 am rating: 8
#17
James L.
The proper PA response for a neighbor who steals your fuses is to:
1. Wait until a Friday night when the neighbor is out.
2. Cut the seal on the electric meter.
3. Pull said meter out off the wall, which then cuts off the neighbor’s electricity, and throw it away.
With any luck, the neighbor will be sans electricity all weekend.
Jul 15, 2011 at 2:53 am rating: 5
#18
Grant
My wife would have come out to give you a piece of her mind, if she wasn’t locked in her iron lung, you murdering jerkface.
Jul 15, 2011 at 4:22 am rating: 7
#19
carmenz
How do you even know that someone is stealing your fuses? Maybe they just blow a lot because your wiring is fucked and someone at your place heard you remark, “Shit, not again. I swear someone is stealing my fuses,” and it stuck.
But if they are…mark ‘em then steal ‘em back.
Jul 15, 2011 at 7:27 am rating: 3
#20
carmenz
Oh, and love “Jerkface.”
Jul 15, 2011 at 7:27 am rating: 2
#21
Eileen
Should send this to my sister, who was a big Deadhead in high school. She’d get a kick out of it. The stationery, not the stealing fuses. If someone was stealing her fuses, she’d go down and punch their lights out.
Jul 15, 2011 at 7:49 am rating: 8
#22
Justin
I just feel the need to compliment Miss Deadhead for properly using the possessive plural apostrophe on “people’s.” I automatically sided with her when I saw that.
Jul 15, 2011 at 8:08 am rating: 14
#23
Kim
OK, Jerkface is a total jerkface. But shouldn’t it be the management’s responsibility to provide extra fuses if their electrical system sucks so bad this is an issue? Why should tenants have to buy their own fuses? Of course I have no experience with fuseboxes so I’m not sure what the usual protocol is. Even living in NYC in turn of the century buildings all have been upgraded to circuit breakers. Just seems like management should make sure to have a box of fuses available.
Jul 15, 2011 at 8:13 am rating: 3
#24
Adriana
I go to my landlord for everything, including items as small as new drip bans on my stove. If the landlord doesn’t want to provide it, then management can say no. Maybe the fuse-stealer has asked, I don’t know, but I’d call the landlord three times a day if my fuses were constantly blowing. Yeah, I’m a pleasant tenant.
Jul 15, 2011 at 1:08 pm rating: 1
#25
Venus Flytrap Inc.
I just noticed that was Grateful Dead stationary. LOL.
Jul 15, 2011 at 1:09 pm rating: 0
#26
GhostWriter
That Grateful Dead stationery is pissing me off. Those bears are not ordered in a correct animation sequence.
Jul 15, 2011 at 2:35 pm rating: 9
#27
GhostWriter
Jerkface singalong: [ here ]
Jerkface! Stealin fuses, man
I first told you, “You’re a jerkface man!”
Get some! They only cost a dime
You just keep using more…
Hey you, the meany who’s grabbing the fuses – don’t blame me!
I’m gonna report your acts of thievery, hear me?
You typically blow out your fuse when your watching your TV
Cut it out! You know it draws wattage quick.
Tell us- you got a sewing machine?
To use it, you blow the fuse’s ring?
You ought to just replace your own
But ya just take one from me- oh no!
.
.
.
Sometimes the light’s all shinin’ on me;
Ya pull my fuse; I can barely see.
Lately it occurres to me
What a cooooold jerkface you’ve been.
Jul 15, 2011 at 3:32 pm rating: 8
#28
123
I know it was YOU who stole the fuses because I BACKTRACED IT! Consequences will NEVER be the same! >:O
Jul 15, 2011 at 5:23 pm rating: 2
#29
mamason
I guess I’m the only one who read that jerkface should call the management cowpony.
Jul 15, 2011 at 6:32 pm rating: 3
#30
aaa
Well, I would be on the note-writer’s side since stealing other units’ fuses is a first class tool move, but the Grateful Dead really blows and I kind of have to hate anyone who likes them enough to have their stationary. Sorry, man.
Jul 15, 2011 at 11:50 pm rating: 1
#31
Craig
IMO, Fuses ARE actually over-current preventative devices, whilst breakers are not. Industry standard and code changed as a matter of cost only, not necessarily safety. Any circuit protected by a circuit breaker can be protected as well or better with a fuse.
All that being said, the Jerkface should
1) determine the cause of repeated over current events
2) reimburse the others ++
3) get a clue
Jul 16, 2011 at 12:41 am rating: 2
#32
Catt of the Garage
Am I the only one who finds it bizarre for apartment buildings to have the fuseboxes in a communal space? When I used to live in a flat, our meter and circuit breakers were inside our flat, along with the water shutoffs, toilet, bed and other items that I considered to be entirely my business. The only fuses in the communal hallway were the ones for the stair lighting. Why would it be any other way???
Jul 17, 2011 at 4:14 pm rating: 2
#33
Calantha
Why is it that there are so many brain dead people in the world that thinks its alright to steal fuses? And then there is the other half of passive aggressive that leaves a note! I love it!
I love my cat!
Jul 22, 2011 at 1:33 pm rating: 0
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