Comment Re:more interesting: Self-Powered 'Automatons.' (Score 4, Interesting) 397
Apparently a farmer near the town of Estevan, Saskatchewan, got in trouble with the law for doing something like this. He was only a few miles from the powerplant and built a shed with a large transformer in it underneath the high voltage lines and pulled power from it to run parts of his farm.
From what I heard, he did this for several years before being caught.