When the moon hits a substation like a big pizza pie...

Last year, I told you about how an elderly woman fought back against Comcast's fartpipery by laying hulk to the cable company's regional office. Now something similar has happened here to our local electric company because of the Blackout of '08.

Ahem. Ahem, ahem, ahem.

Fed up with the ongoing darkness, loss of business, and food spoilage, a local man decided to fight back. He gathered a couple of items from his refrigerator that had gone stale because of the days-long blackout and wrote "SPOILED" all over the packaging in thick black marker.

Then - under cover of night - he bipped over to a spot that has a height advantage over a nearby power company substation.

The first item to be disposed of was a small frozen pepperoni pizza - which wasn't frozen anymore, because of the power company's "innovative" mass defrosting service that I ridiculed. Indeed, it was ru. The spoiled pizza (still in its wrapper) was thrown frisbee-like towards the substation. The rotten pie appeared to land on the ground just inside the fence.

The second item was a bit trickier. It was a nearly full tub of margarine. It too was ru. Although it was not flat, the man also attempted to throw it like a frisbee.

But a funny thing happened. The lid flew off the container mid-flight, and a trail of margarine formed between there and just inside power company property.

It behooves us to note that the man wasn't aiming for the substation itself, because that may have endangered the local power grid (as if it wasn't already out). He was aiming for just inside the fence, where it would be discovered. A work crew is probably going to see the rotten food, and they'll tell the boss, who'll tell their boss. And when the board of directors finds out someone fought the company, they're going to be so mad they'll poop holes in their pantaloons.

I'm almost 100% sure this isn't the only time during the outage in which someone has fought the power company. But I do have to warn you that legally it's a gray area. So I'd advise against doing anything like throwing rotten food at a substation fence.

Rain isn't predicted for a week, and it's still reasonably warm outside. So you know what that margarine is going to do? Stink. That's what. So it's going to be impossible not to notice that it's there and has "SPOILED" written all over it - so it'll be clear what all this is about.

Meanwhile, some neighborhoods in my immediate area report that the power remains out for the fourth day.