Devious Australians will do anything to avoid paying their bills...
 

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Energy Australia was unable to read your meter....














So come on... Where DO you get the fake spider kits? :winkwink:

In here we pay based on projection and it is corrected once in a year by reading the meter. The correction is pretty much always to bigger direction (I pay more) as the projection is somewhat downscaled.

We don't have that big spiders so it wouldn't work anyways.

Imagine that crawling across your face while asleep at 4am.

They always come in pairs.

BTW the meter could be read, that's a smart meter - they don't have meter readers for those, it's all done via the network. :)

A+ for creativity.

I don't like spiders and snakes...so yeah, I'd leave that meter for another time.

That is funny

Looks legit.

What if you hit your face while asleep when it crawls across, how much of a mess does that make? :upsidedow

They changed the meters a year ago over here, they just have to drive a truck/van down the street and they get everyone's readings.

Giant space age nuclear spiders, kangeroos that box, dingos that steal babies, snakes that can eat entire rabbits in one gulp, and crocodiles....yeah Australia is 'civilization' for sure. LOL

Let's keep these creepy crawlies down under where they belong eh? (I mean, OY!)

If it's a funnel web spider, the mess is the last of your worries. :helpme

Here they use a combination of Wireless and BPL (Broadband over Power Lines).

You forgot about stone fish, box jellyfish, blue ringed octopus, tiger snake, death adder, taipan, black snake, brown snake, copperhead snakes and worst of all .. the very biggest danger to us we all face on a daily basis is housewives driving their 4WD/SUV like crazy people. :1orglaugh

Funny shit :1orglaugh

In Chicago they would just estimate based on prior usage and then correct it next month when the spider goes away. They didn't read my shit in the winter here guessing cause scared of the snow and when spring came boy did I have a fucking bill. Thought someone had tapped into my line shit was so high. Switched my shit out to one of those smart meters now so da lazy fucks don't have to walk anymore so should be accurate and won't have to worry about getting sticker shock again. :2 cents: