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  • Extra Innings
    SBR Posting Legend
    • 02-26-10
    • 15058

    #1
    Guidance Needed: Stealing Basic Cable
    Anybody work for time warner or comcast

    There is a junction box attached to my house and it is locked preventing me from getting my cable. Its a simple lock, the type you see on electric meters.

    Any easy way of breaking these things off What does the inside look like

    Yours In Christ,
    Extra Innings
  • THE PROFIT
    SBR Posting Legend
    • 11-27-09
    • 17701

    #2
    yes, a pair of fukin pliers will take it off. Just run a cable to your neighbors box, you'll have whatever channels they have
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    • Extra Innings
      SBR Posting Legend
      • 02-26-10
      • 15058

      #3
      Originally posted by THE PROFIT
      yes, a pair of fukin pliers will take it off. Just run a cable to your neighbors box, you'll have whatever channels they have
      It's not that simple, I kind of live in a city...everybody also has weapons and will shoot you if you walk on their property.
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      • ryanspeer2001
        SBR MVP
        • 03-30-08
        • 3149

        #4
        Easier approach if you live in a row home or strip of homes where the houses are connected behind your cable socket in the wall going up will be the splitters.......you do what you have to from there.
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        • Extra Innings
          SBR Posting Legend
          • 02-26-10
          • 15058

          #5
          Here is the lock



          I would have to replace it or make it look untampered with after doing the deed.
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          • Extra Innings
            SBR Posting Legend
            • 02-26-10
            • 15058

            #6
            This is exactly what I need. How do you seal these things?



            Anybody work for a power company so I don't have to buy 100 of these things for 43.00 bucks
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            • THE PROFIT
              SBR Posting Legend
              • 11-27-09
              • 17701

              #7
              Originally posted by Extra Innings
              It's not that simple, I kind of live in a city...everybody also has weapons and will shoot you if you walk on their property.
              tell your neighbor you're gonna do it. If you're like me the neighbor wont say anything because he doesnt want to be on your bad side
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              • Extra Innings
                SBR Posting Legend
                • 02-26-10
                • 15058

                #8
                Originally posted by ryanspeer2001
                Easier approach if you live in a row home or strip of homes where the houses are connected behind your cable socket in the wall going up will be the splitters.......you do what you have to from there.
                Nope...its a single family home. I am reading some of the penalties...I may just have them come and hook it up
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                • Extra Innings
                  SBR Posting Legend
                  • 02-26-10
                  • 15058

                  #9
                  Originally posted by THE PROFIT
                  tell your neighbor you're gonna do it. If you're like me the neighbor wont say anything because he doesnt want to be on your bad side
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                  • StraitShooter
                    SBR Posting Legend
                    • 07-22-09
                    • 10464

                    #10
                    ..every time the cable guy goes up my pole I peek through the windows and hide and pray he does not snip my life away..if he does I'll shimy back up dat pole troll
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                    • tony_come
                      SBR Posting Legend
                      • 03-31-10
                      • 21695

                      #11
                      They can still monitor your movement
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                      • Extra Innings
                        SBR Posting Legend
                        • 02-26-10
                        • 15058

                        #12
                        Originally posted by StraitShooter
                        ..every time the cable guy goes up my pole I peek through the windows and hide and pray he does not snip my life away..if he does I'll shimy back up dat pole troll
                        Seriously considering it and it would be soo easy but I am reading that they can measure resistance on the lines by pinging the connection. Fines range from 25k to two years in jail (just like tampering with a electric box). Seems a little risky IMO.
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                        • Deuce
                          BARRELED IN @ SBR!
                          • 01-12-08
                          • 29843

                          #13
                          My roommate did this at our old place. Climbed the pole, followed the wire, screwed ours back into working position, replaced the tag. Free cable for 6 months. The neighbor formerly worked at comcast though she he had spare tags. BOL guy.
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                          • MBENZ
                            SBR Hall of Famer
                            • 01-07-07
                            • 5238

                            #14
                            Basic cable is all you'll get.Without the box inside which is controlled by comcast you will get no HD or digital.Things have changed over the years.Risk isn't worth reward.
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                            • The Inevitable
                              SBR Wise Guy
                              • 05-02-10
                              • 773

                              #15
                              Wow! Those are some major penalties! Just for some phuking cable?? How do you give someone 2 years in jail for cable?

                              Take my advise dude, you don't need cable. I've been without it for 3 years now. Haven't looked back since. I can watch everything on the internet. The NCAA tournament is being broadcast on cbssports.com for free. Every single game is on there.
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                              • falconticket
                                SBR MVP
                                • 09-05-10
                                • 3414

                                #16
                                Get a dish
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                                • shari91
                                  BARRELED IN @ SBR!
                                  • 02-23-10
                                  • 32661

                                  #17
                                  EI, you are a father to your cats. Their sole provider.

                                  Please do not risk 2 years in the clink and/or serious fines for some free cable when the majority of the stuff on tv is whore shit anyway.

                                  Listen to Inevitable - stream stuff for free if you don't want to spend the cash on cable the legit way.
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                                  • sideloaded
                                    SBR Hall of Famer
                                    • 08-21-10
                                    • 7561

                                    #18
                                    when i moved in the cable box was wide open. Been like that for years. Just a twist tie on the box. But I have dish anyways. Search ebay for i-link you're welcome.
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                                    • COYLO
                                      SBR MVP
                                      • 10-18-10
                                      • 2844

                                      #19
                                      can you guy's not get the box chipped no? i know our old cable box was chipped
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                                      • Wrecktangle
                                        SBR MVP
                                        • 03-01-09
                                        • 1524

                                        #20
                                        Cable is dying, the crazy costs of it is driving folks to "cut the cord" and stream games/shows off the internet and/or Boxee, Apple TV, Google TV, Netflix, yadda, yadda. In 2-3 years The Democrats will have to "bail out" the cable companies to keep their poor cable company workers (mostly democrats) in jobs.

                                        Don't believe me, watch the stupid Democrats burn our money in this no fly-zone shit in Libya just because the Europeans and the Arab League told them to "do it".
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                                        • Stallion
                                          SBR MVP
                                          • 03-21-10
                                          • 3617

                                          #21
                                          Just don't do it.
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                                          • Dirty Sanchez
                                            SBR Posting Legend
                                            • 03-01-10
                                            • 16031

                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by Extra Innings
                                            Anybody work for time warner or comcast

                                            There is a junction box attached to my house and it is locked preventing me from getting my cable. Its a simple lock, the type you see on electric meters.

                                            Any easy way of breaking these things off What does the inside look like

                                            Yours In Christ,
                                            Extra Innings

                                            Please just do it....and then let us know how the ass ripping was when you go to jail....again nothing amazes me on people who post here
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                                            • JoeVig
                                              SBR Wise Guy
                                              • 01-11-08
                                              • 772

                                              #23
                                              A DaveTV emulator back in the day was the way to go. Pay for basic and then unlock every channel on the box, even PPV. That was a sad day when they started issuing new decoder cards.
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