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Narrator explains dangers of power line interactions over the following scenes; Man performs “one man test” in which he tests the amount of weight a wire can endure, wires touch and there is a loud shock; A man uses rope to pull in a new strand, the rope gets stuck on a tree and as the man tugs the rope flips up and touches a wire causing a loud shock; A man pulls in drop wire, the wire comes from a spool, there are examples of items the wire can get caught upon, such as a tree, a branch on the ground, the wire gets stuck on branch, flips up, becomes intangled in the power resulting in a loud shock; The men in the scenes are dressed as casual work men in plaids and khakis; the locations appear to be rural or suburban southwestern areas