I heard attracting wasps with honey to lay nests in the spinning meter, also can't source that. I think the main way is wires around the meter. How cool were t

I heard attracting wasps with honey to lay nests in the spinning meter, also can't source that. I think the main way is wires around the meter. How cool were these dudes stealing electricity from Edison, I liked Edison's firewall - (1886) - "It was hardly worth while to maintain the continuous espionage necessary to detect and punish these pilferers, but the superintendent of the station, Mr. Chamberlain coupled in extra dynamos, and threw as great an increase of current over the system as the safety catches would permit, at various times for about one second while this current was passing; the incandescent lamps would give an unwanted glow, and every induction coil and motor surreptitiously attached to the system would receive an extra current designed to burn it. In this manner the system to occasionally cleared of all trespassers." https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28360460 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28360460