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KILOWATT KOPS
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KILOWATT KOPS
Power companies go after `energy shoplifters'
By JESSICA MCBRIDE
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Wednesday, March 29, 2000
Wisconsin power companies are getting tough on "energy thieves,"
and they have begun using former police officers -- Kilowatt Kops, if
you will -- to do it.
Sometimes called "meter beaters," energy thieves steal electrical
power through dangerous amateur engineering experiments -- or by
using false identities to get new...
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