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OT Demise of Tric Or Treating?
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> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 06:16:14 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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>>> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:17:46 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:58:00 -0400, wrote:
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>>>>>> Every year I buy some bags of candy but for the past ten years no
>>>>>> trick or treaters have shown up so this year I've bought no candy and
>>>>>> won't be bothering with answering my doorbell and I'm sure no one
>>>>>> will
>>>>>> show up.
>>>>>> Halloween has died.
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>>>>> If you just turn out your porch light, nobody will come. I used to
>>>>> just leave the house every Halloween but realized that unnecessary.
>>>>>
>>>>> -sw
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>>>> Not an option for me. My house is lighted all across the front and the
>>>> lights come on at dusk. Can't turn them off.
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>>> Yes you can, you just don't want to admit there's a switch to turn
>>> that off. And you suspect you know where that switch is, too. This
>>> is just another of your fabricated "Oddities in the Boverse".
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>>None that we know of. We had the former owners label every switch because
>>we
>>couldn't figure out what some did. Turned out some were just switches,
>>never
>>connected to anything. Just because someone is an electrician, doesn't
>>mean
>>he is a good one.
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> Licenced electricians need to wire to code, sign off on the job, and
> give the property owner and the town's code enforcement office
> a certificate that satisfies the fire underwriters. Failure to do so
> the electrician will lose their license.
I don't know if he was licensed or not. He was the home owner. The home
owner can do whatever. Doesn't mean it has to be right.
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> Not only are you eerily weird you are also dumber than deer scat. if
> hard wired you definitely have a switch for that outdoor lighting...
> or it's those low voltage lighting fixtures on an extension cord
> installed by the homeowner... low voltage circuits like doorbells and
> thermostats are on a small transformer (about the size of a deck of
> cards) that's typically mounted near the circuit breaker panel.
Dunno.
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