Hall of shame
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Broachoski
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Reminds me of how the landscapers would come and lay sod right over the concrete traffic signal or street lighting pullboxes that were in the public right-of-way.
Was perusing reviews of camera junctions boxes, mounts, etc. and ran across this beauty. They go to the trouble and expense to cap their pole, install nice brackets and mounts but then leave the camera pigtails dangling with RJ-45's exposed to the elements. 
CanCuba
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Reminds me of how the landscapers would come and lay sod right over the concrete traffic signal or street lighting pullboxes that were in the public right-of-way.
Painters, drywallers and landscapers often have substance abuse issues that would make 1970s Keith Richards blush!
Tell me about it....in '06 when building this house my contractor's first-line and second-line rain gutter installers were busy (the good ones are) so he had to go I think to maybe even 4th choice and the 2 dudes were collectively a piece of work...I referred to the dynamic duo as "Cheech and Chong" !
I had to have the gutters re-positioned later so they would drain properly.
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tangent
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That may actually be an improvement for that Napco keypad. I'm picturing a keypad with plastic so yellowed it may as well be orange and buttons so gummed up they don't function. Then again this one may be a bit newer and might have even had an LCD screen. Either way I'm not entirely convinced the painter / drywaller didn't do the homeowner a favor.
Took this with my iPhone a couple of years ago in a local sandwich shop franchise. The fan was spinning as evidenced by the blurred blades and was hanging by it's 3 wires (hot/black, neutral/white, ground/green) and wobbling like crazy.
A self-proclaimed "electrician" or "contractor" mounted it to what appears to be a regular metal octagonal ceiling box with the 2 screws instead of a box made for fans, vibration backed the screws out; who knows, maybe they weren't fully tightened to begin with.
But what amazed me even more is that staff and no other customer observed this.....when I pointed it out to the manager he acted surprised and ran over and switched all of them off and placed a table with no chairs under the fan so no one would walk under it. It was wobbling so badly you'd have to be blind not to notice, IMO.
A self-proclaimed "electrician" or "contractor" mounted it to what appears to be a regular metal octagonal ceiling box with the 2 screws instead of a box made for fans, vibration backed the screws out; who knows, maybe they weren't fully tightened to begin with.
But what amazed me even more is that staff and no other customer observed this.....when I pointed it out to the manager he acted surprised and ran over and switched all of them off and placed a table with no chairs under the fan so no one would walk under it. It was wobbling so badly you'd have to be blind not to notice, IMO.
looney2ns
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Proof once more that some folks are totally oblivious to everything around them.
I'm definitely one of them. I can be standing next to something close enough to bite me and not see it. A couple of years ago I finally noticed a very heavy entry hall fixture hanging by its wires and suspect it was that way for longer than I'd want to admit. One of the links in its chain opened up and the fixture dropped a couple of inches.
Which is one reason I don't worry too much about people seeing my cameras.
tangent
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I've seen a lot of fans in restaurants that are extremely unbalanced and wobble around a ton, usually on longer downrods.
I could see how someone might not be attune to the difference between normal wobble and about to fall down.
Especially at retail and restaurants employees are prone to ignoring things about their workplace. For example a particular circular logo retailer recently ignored my concerns a particular freezer section was around 50 degrees. They thought it was normal for when it went into defrost. Next time I'm just going to call the health dept.